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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 Wooden Shoe Village, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wooden Shoe Village 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 Wooden Shoe Village:
- 43.978926, -84.355258
- 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 Wooden Shoe Village
- 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 Gladwin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Gladwin County
- Since Wooden Shoe Village is near Bay County and also Midland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bay County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Midland 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 Wooden Shoe Village
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wooden Shoe Village ...
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.
- Butman
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dale is located in Gladwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
- Edenville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Edenville is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edenville
- Hard Luck
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hard Luck is located in Gladwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hard Luck
- Hard Luck has also been known as:
- Hardluck
- Highwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hockaday
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hockaday is located in Gladwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockaday
- Lyle
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Lyle is located in Gladwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyle
- Podunk
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Podunk is located in Gladwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Podunk
- Sugar Rapids
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
How Far From Wooden Shoe Village 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 Wooden Shoe Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Wooden Shoe Village and extending to:
- Gladwin, which is the Seat of Gladwin County, lies just to the West.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Wooden Shoe Village to Lansing, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 515 miles [828.8 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 21 days and walking would take 30 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,962 miles [9,594.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,701 miles [10,784.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,585 miles [7,378.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 from Point A (ie- Wooden Shoe Village) 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 Wooden Shoe Village 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 Wooden Shoe Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9789, Longitude: -84.3553 |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.207 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.107 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.249 degrees. |
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