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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 Homewood Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Homewood Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Homewood Park:
    • 39.542766, -105.197767
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Homewood Park
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Homewood Park ...

We found two communities that share the name Homewood Park.

Within Colorado, the name Homewood Park is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Erie 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 New York community of Homewood Park [Erie County].
    • Virginia
      • Goochland County
      • This Homewood Park is located in Goochland County and lies 1,482 miles [2,385 km]<2> to the east of the Homewood Park that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Homewood Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Homewood Park ...

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.

  • Conifer
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Doubleheader Ranch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Doubleheader Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doubleheader Ranch
    • Doubleheader Ranch is located in Jefferson County
  • Fenders
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fenders have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenders
    • Fenders is located in Jefferson County
  • Golden Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golden Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Meadows
    • Golden Meadows is located in Jefferson County
  • Homestead
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Homestead have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
    • Homestead is located in Jefferson County
  • Indian Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Hills
    • Indian Hills is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Indian Hills <3>
  • Indians Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sky Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sky Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sky Village
    • Sky Village is located in Jefferson County
  • Twin Forks
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Twin Forks. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Forks
    • Twin Forks is located in Jefferson County
  • Willow Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
    • Willow Springs is located in Jefferson County
  • Willowbrook
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willowbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowbrook
    • Willowbrook is located in Jefferson County

How Far From Homewood Park to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Homewood Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Homewood Park and extending to:

  • Golden, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Homewood Park to Golden, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast (NE). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,500 miles [2,414 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 59 days and walking would take 86 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,890 miles [11,088.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,653 miles [12,316.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,583 miles [8,985 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Homewood Park. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Jefferson County: www.co.jefferson.co.us/

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Homewood Park 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Homewood Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Homewood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5428, Longitude: -105.1978       In this case, the coordinates for Homewood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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.
<7>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 Homewood Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.668 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.182 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.106 degrees.




 

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