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 Briarwood Estates:
30.369915, -91.036214
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 Briarwood Estates
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 parish-by-parish basis. We have selected East Baton Rouge Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Briarwood Estates.
Within Louisiana, the name Briarwood Estates is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Carroll County
This Briarwood Estates is located in Carroll County and lies 410 miles [659.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Briarwood Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Briarwood Estates.
Tennessee
Knox County
This Briarwood Estates is located in Knox County and lies 563 miles [906.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Briarwood Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Briarwood Estates.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Briarwood Estates is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,362 miles [2,191.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Briarwood Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Briarwood Estates.
Virginia
Stafford County
This Briarwood Estates is located in Stafford County and lies 948 miles [1,525.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Briarwood Estates that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Briarwood Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Briarwood Estates ...
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.
Bluebonnet Ridge (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Bluebonnet Ridge is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
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 Briarwood Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Briarwood Estates and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Briarwood Estates to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 56 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 39 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,880 miles [11,072.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,590 miles [12,214.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,466 miles [8,796.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Briarwood Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Briarwood Estates 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 Briarwood Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3699, Longitude: -91.0362 In this case, the coordinates for Briarwood Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.956 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.508 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.534 degrees.