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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 Grandwood Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grandwood Park 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 Grandwood Park:
- 42.393077, -87.986745
- 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 Grandwood Park
- 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 Lake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lake County
- Since Grandwood Park is near Kenosha County and also McHenry County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kenosha County
- Open the eBird sighting report for McHenry 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 Grandwood Park
Curious and Interesting Names Near Grandwood 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.
- Gages Lake
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Grayslake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Harris Corners
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Harris Corners is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris Corners
- Hickory Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Hickory Corners is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Corners
- Idlewild
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Idlewild is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewild
- Lake Villa
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Lake Villa is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Villa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,525 people
- Old Mill Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Park City
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Park City is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,428 people
- Round Lake Beach
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Round Lake Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Third Lake
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Venetian Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Venetian Village is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venetian Village
- Wildwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Wildwood is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
How Far From Grandwood 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 Grandwood Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Grandwood Park and extending to:
- Waukegan, which is the Seat of Lake County, lies just to the East Southeast.
- Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 199 miles [320.3 km]<2> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Grandwood Park to Springfield, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 621 miles [999.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,170 miles [9,929.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,911 miles [11,122.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,797 miles [7,720 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grandwood Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Grandwood Park 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 Grandwood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3931, Longitude: -87.9867 In this case, the coordinates for Grandwood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.668 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.669 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.593 degrees. |
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