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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 Good Hart, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Good Hart 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 Good Hart:
- 45.567066, -85.113005
- 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 Good Hart
- 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 Emmet County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Emmet County
- Since Good Hart is near Charlevoix County and also Cheboygan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Charlevoix County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cheboygan 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 Good Hart
Curious and Interesting Names Near Good Hart ...
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.
- Cross Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Forest Beach
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Harbor Point
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Harbor Point is located in Emmet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Point
- Harbor Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Levering
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Marsh Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Pleasant View
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant View is located in Emmet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
- Roaring Brook
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Good Hart 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 Good Hart to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Good Hart and extending to:
- Petoskey, which is the Seat of Emmet County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Good Hart to Petoskey, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 197 miles [317 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 617 miles [993 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 35 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,916 miles [9,520.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,660 miles [10,718.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,550 miles [7,322.5 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Good Hart) 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 Good Hart 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 Good Hart. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5671, Longitude: -85.1130 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.634 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.826 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.076 degrees. |
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