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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 Little Sauk, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Sauk 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 Little Sauk:
- 45.863854, -94.918356
- 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 Little Sauk
- 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 Todd County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Todd County
- Since Little Sauk is near Stearns County and also Douglas County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Stearns County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Douglas 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 Little Sauk
Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Sauk ...
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.
- Freeport
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Grey Eagle
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Long Prairie
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Nelson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Nelson is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
- Pillsbury
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pillsbury is located in Todd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillsbury
- Pleasant Beach
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Beach is located in Todd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Beach
- Rose City
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Rose City is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose City
- Round Prairie
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Round Prairie is located in Todd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Prairie
- Swanville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
How Far From Little Sauk 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 Little Sauk to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Little Sauk and extending to:
- Long Prairie, which is the Seat of Todd County, lies just to the North Northeast.
- Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 108 miles [173.8 km]<2> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Little Sauk to Saint Paul, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,027 miles [1,652.8 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 41 days and walking would take 59 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,229 miles [10,024.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,987 miles [11,244.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,906 miles [7,895.4 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- Little Sauk) 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 Little Sauk 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 Little Sauk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.8639, Longitude: -94.9184 In this case, the coordinates for Little Sauk have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.478 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 317.622 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.324 degrees. |
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