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 Echo Beach:
47.886156, -116.876028
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 Echo 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 Kootenai County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Echo Beach.
Within Idaho, the name Echo Beach is unique.
Beyond Idaho, we know of two communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Ontario
This Echo Beach lies 1,769 miles [2,846.9 km]<1> to the east of the Echo Beach that is located in Kootenai County.
Pennsylvania
Bucks County
This Echo Beach is located in Bucks County and lies 2,124 miles [3,418.2 km]<1> to the east of the Echo Beach that is located in Kootenai County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Echo Beach.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Echo 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.
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 Echo Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Echo Beach and extending to:
Coeur d'Alene, which is the Seat of Kootenai County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Echo Beach to Coeur d'Alene, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Boise, which is the State Capital of Idaho, lies 296 miles [476.4 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,067 miles [3,326.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 81 days and walking would take 118 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,663 miles [10,723.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,430 miles [11,957.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,502 miles [8,854.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Echo Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Echo 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 Echo Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8862, Longitude: -116.8760
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.409 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 337.277 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.185 degrees.