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 Sandy Beach:
41.693323, -73.221050
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 Sandy Beach
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 Litchfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Sandy Beach.
Within Connecticut, the name Sandy Beach is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, nine are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Delaware
Sussex County
This Sandy Beach is located in Sussex County and lies 240 miles [386.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Sandy Beach.
Indiana
Carroll County
This Sandy Beach is located in Carroll County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Sandy Beach.
Maine
Penobscot County
This Sandy Beach is located in Penobscot County and lies 314 miles [505.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Penobscot County community of Sandy Beach.
Massachusetts
Norfolk County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sandy Beach [Norfolk County].
Worcester County
This Sandy Beach is located in Worcester County and lies 79 miles [127.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Sandy Beach.
Michigan
Cass County
This Sandy Beach is located in Cass County and lies 666 miles [1,071.8 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Sandy Beach.
Saint Joseph County
This Sandy Beach is located in Saint Joseph County and lies 633 miles [1,018.7 km] to the west of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Joseph County community of Sandy Beach.
New York
Erie County
This Sandy Beach is located in Erie County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Sandy Beach.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Sandy Beach lies 1,058 miles [1,702.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
Ohio
Auglaize County
This Sandy Beach is located in Auglaize County and lies 588 miles [946.3 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Auglaize County community of Sandy Beach.
Ontario
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sandy Beach.
Quebec
This Sandy Beach lies 650 miles [1,046.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
Saskatchewan
This Sandy Beach lies 1,568 miles [2,523.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Litchfield County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Beach ...
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.
Acropolis ‑ Historic (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
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 Sandy Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Beach and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Beach to Hartford, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 278 miles [447.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,621 miles [9,046.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,330 miles [10,187.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,206 miles [6,768.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sandy Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Sandy Beach 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.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Sandy Beach 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 Sandy Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6933, Longitude: -73.2211
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.362 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.021 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.867 degrees.