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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 Wilroads Gardens, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wilroads Gardens 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 Wilroads Gardens:
- 37.723152, -99.933639
- 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 Wilroads Gardens
- 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 Ford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ford County
- Since Wilroads Gardens is near Gray County and also Clark County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Gray County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Clark 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 Wilroads Gardens
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wilroads Gardens ...
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.
- Bloom
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Dodge City
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Ensign
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Ford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jetmore
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kingsdown
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Kingsdown is located in Ford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsdown
- Minneola
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Spearville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
How Far From Wilroads Gardens 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 Wilroads Gardens to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Wilroads Gardens and extending to:
- Dodge City, which is the Seat of Ford County, lies just to the West Northwest.
- Topeka, which is the State Capital of Kansas, lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Wilroads Gardens to Topeka, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,239 miles [1,994 km] to the east (E). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 49 days and walking would take 71 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,828 miles [10,988.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,581 miles [12,200.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,480 miles [8,819.2 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- Wilroads Gardens) 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 Wilroads Gardens 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 Wilroads Gardens. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7232, Longitude: -99.9336 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 322.654 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 320.274 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.557 degrees. |
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