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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 Lone Tree, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lone Tree 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 Lone Tree:
    • 39.530443, -104.870930
    • 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 Lone Tree
  • 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 Douglas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Douglas County
    • Since Lone Tree is near Arapahoe County and also Jefferson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Arapahoe County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson 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 Lone Tree

Communities Also Named Lone Tree ...

We found fourteen communities that are also named Lone Tree.

There is one other community in Colorado that is also named Lone Tree.

Beyond Colorado, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Colorado ...
    • Weld 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 Colorado community of Lone Tree [Weld County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Bureau 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 Illinois community of Lone Tree [Bureau County].
      • Henderson County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Henderson County and lies 735 miles [1,182.9 km]<2> to the east of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Lone Tree.
    • Indiana
      • Greene County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Greene County and lies 946 miles [1,522.4 km]<2> to the east of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Lone Tree.
    • Iowa
      • Johnson County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Johnson County and lies 717 miles [1,153.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Lone Tree.
    • Kansas
      • Cowley 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 Kansas community of Lone Tree [Cowley County].
      • McPherson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [McPherson County].
      • Meade County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Meade County].
      • Osborne County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Osborne County].
      • Pottawatomie County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Pottawatomie County].
    • Missouri
      • Cass County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Cass County and lies 567 miles [912.5 km]<2> to the east of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Lone Tree.
    • Montana
      • Pondera County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lone Tree [Pondera County].
    • Oregon
      • Union County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Union County and lies 778 miles [1,252.1 km]<2> to the northwest of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Lone Tree.
    • South Dakota
      • Moody County
      • This Lone Tree is located in Moody County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<2> to the northeast of the Lone Tree that is located in Douglas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moody County community of Lone Tree.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lone Tree ...

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.

  • Carriage Club
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Carriage Club is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carriage Club
  • Castle Pines
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Centennial
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Cherry Knolls
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cherry Knolls is located in Arapahoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Knolls
  • Cottonwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cottonwood is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
  • Heritage Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Heritage Hills is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Hills
  • Meridian
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Meridian is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
  • Park Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Park Meadows is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Meadows
  • Stonegate
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Stonegate is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonegate
  • Willow Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Willow Creek is located in Arapahoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek

How Far From Lone Tree 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 city such as Lone Tree to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Castle Rock, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Lone Tree to Castle Rock, with an average speed<5> 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.
  • Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 16 miles [25.7 km] to the north northwest (NNW). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,483 miles [2,386.7 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 58 days and walking would take 85 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,881 miles [11,073.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,643 miles [12,300.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,572 miles [8,967.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lone Tree 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 '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- Lone Tree) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lone Tree, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Lone Tree 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 Lone Tree. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5304, Longitude: -104.8709       In this case, the coordinates for Lone Tree have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.422 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.893 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 317.93 degrees.