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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in El Camino, we use the following websites to find information relevant to El Camino and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for El Camino:
- 40.040990, -122.170547
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on El Camino
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Tehama County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Tehama County
- Since El Camino is near Butte County and also Glenn County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Butte County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Glenn County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for El Camino
Communities Also Named El Camino ...
We found one communities that are also named El Camino.
Within California, the name El Camino is unique.
Beyond California, there is another community also named El Camino in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
- Wharton County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of El Camino [Wharton County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near El Camino ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Blunt
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Blunt is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blunt
- Corning
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Dairyville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dairyville is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dairyville
- Ensign ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ensign is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensign
- Merrills Landing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Merrills Landing is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrills Landing
- Red Bank
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Red Bank is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bank
- Red Bluff
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Roberts Place
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Roberts Place is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts Place
- Tenmile ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Tenmile is located in Tehama County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
How Far From El Camino to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as El Camino to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in El Camino and extending to:
- Red Bluff, which is the Seat of Tehama County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from El Camino to Red Bluff, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 107 miles [172.2 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,381 miles [3,831.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 93 days and walking would take 136 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,263 miles [11,688.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,029 miles [12,921.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,098 miles [9,813.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that El Camino could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- El Camino) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <5> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from El Camino to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in El Camino. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0410, Longitude: -122.1705 In this case, the coordinates for El Camino have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.218 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.283 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.997 degrees. |
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