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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 Bar Lake, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bar Lake 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 Bar Lake:
- 44.297502, -86.307032
- 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 Bar Lake
- 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 Manistee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Manistee County
- Since Bar Lake is near Mason County and also Benzie County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mason County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Benzie 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 Bar Lake
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bar Lake ...
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.
- Bear Lake
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Chief Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Chief Lake is located in Manistee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
- Filer City
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Filer City is located in Manistee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Filer City
- Fountain
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Free Soil
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Malcolm
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Malcolm is located in Manistee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malcolm
- Newland
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Newland is located in Manistee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newland
- Red Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Red Park is located in Manistee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Park
How Far From Bar Lake to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bar Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Bar Lake and extending to:
- Manistee, which is the Seat of Manistee County, lies just to the South Southwest.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 139 miles [223.7 km]<2> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Bar Lake to Lansing, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 606 miles [975.3 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,018 miles [9,685 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,761 miles [10,880.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,649 miles [7,481.8 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bar Lake) 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 Bar Lake 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 Bar Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2975, Longitude: -86.3070 In this case, the coordinates for Bar Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.499 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.616 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.142 degrees. |
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