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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 Country Place Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Country Place 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 Country Place Park:
- 43.655000, -84.757222
- 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 Country Place 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 Isabella County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Isabella County
- Since Country Place Park is near Midland County and also Clare County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Midland County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Clare 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 Country Place Park
Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Place 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.
- Clare
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Jordan
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jordan is located in Isabella County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
- Mount Pleasant
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Oil City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Oil City is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
- Rosebush
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Shepherd
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Two Rivers
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Two Rivers is located in Isabella County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Rivers
- Wise
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wise is located in Isabella County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wise
How Far From Country Place Park to ...
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 Country Place 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 Country Place Park and extending to:
- Mount Pleasant, which is the Seat of Isabella County, lies just to the South.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 64 miles [103 km]<2> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Country Place Park to Lansing, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 517 miles [832 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 30 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,992 miles [9,643.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,730 miles [10,830.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,614 miles [7,425.5 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- Country Place 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 Country Place 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 Country Place Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6550, Longitude: -84.7572 In this case, the coordinates for Country Place Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.488 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.376 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.566 degrees. |
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