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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 Rangely, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Rangely 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 Rangely:
- 40.093168, -108.756700
- 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 Rangely
- 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 Rio Blanco County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Rio Blanco County
- Since Rangely is near Moffat County and also Uintah County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Moffat County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Uintah 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 Rangely
Communities Also Named Rangely ...
We found one communities that are also named Rangely.
There is one other community in Colorado that is also named Rangely.
Beyond Colorado.
- Communities Located In Colorado ...
- Garfield 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 Rangely [Garfield County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rangely ...
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.
- Bonanza
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Dinosaur
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dragon ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dragon is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dragon
- Former name for Dragon:
- Dragon Junction
- Elk Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Elk Springs is located in Moffat County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Springs
- Jack Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Jack Springs is located in Moffat County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Springs
- Little Bonanza
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
- Rainbow ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Rainbow is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
- Robinson Place
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Robinson Place is located in Moffat County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
How Far From Rangely 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 town such as Rangely to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Rangely and extending to:
- Meeker, which is the Seat of Rio Blanco County, lies 44 miles [70.8 km]<3> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Rangely to Meeker, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
- Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 200 miles [321.9 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,683 miles [2,708.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 66 days and walking would take 96 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,958 miles [11,197.8 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 7,724 miles [12,430.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,678 miles [9,137.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 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 Rangely 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rangely) 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 Rangely 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 Rangely. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0932, Longitude: -108.7567 In this case, the coordinates for Rangely have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 329.421 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 328.474 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.025 degrees. |
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