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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 Cricket Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cricket 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 Cricket Park:
- 36.176520, -81.198698
- 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 Cricket 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 Wilkes County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wilkes County
- Since Cricket Park is near Ashe County and also Alexander County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ashe County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Alexander 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 Cricket Park
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cricket 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.
- Brown ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Brown is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
- Buck
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Buck is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck
- Cricket
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Cricket is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cricket
- Fairplains
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Fairplains is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplains
- Fox Run
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Fox Run is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Run
- Mulberry
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Mulberry is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulberry
- Stokes ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Stokes is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes
- Sunset Falls
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Sunset Falls is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Falls
- Wildwood Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wildwood Park is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood Park
How Far From Cricket Park 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 Cricket Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Cricket Park and extending to:
- Wilkesboro, which is the Seat of Wilkes County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Cricket Park to Raleigh, with an average speed<2>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 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 295 miles [474.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,193 miles [9,966.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,897 miles [11,099.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,774 miles [7,683 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cricket Park) 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 Cricket 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 Cricket Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1765, Longitude: -81.1987 In this case, the coordinates for Cricket Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.428 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.927 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.361 degrees. |
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