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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 Llewellyn Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Llewellyn Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Llewellyn Park:
    • 40.787600, -74.241258
    • 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 Llewellyn 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 Essex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Essex County
    • Since Llewellyn Park is near Union County and also Passaic County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Passaic 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 Llewellyn Park

Communities Also Named Llewellyn Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Llewellyn Park.

Within New Jersey, the name Llewellyn Park is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named Llewellyn Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Llewellyn Park [Cook County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Llewellyn 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.

  • Ampere
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ampere is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ampere
  • Cedar Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Cedar Grove is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Franklin
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Franklin is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
  • Great Notch
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Great Notch is located in Passaic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Notch
  • Hillside
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Hillside is located in Union County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
  • Kingsland
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Kingsland is located in Bergen County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsland
  • Little Falls
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Little Falls is located in Passaic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Falls
  • Maplewood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Maplewood is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplewood
  • Meadow Village
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Meadow Village is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Village
  • Nutley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Nutley is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutley
  • Orange
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Orange is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange
  • Roseville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Roseville is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseville
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Short Hills
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Short Hills is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short Hills
    • Union
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Union is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
    • Unionburg
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Unionburg is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionburg
    • Wyoming
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Wyoming is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming

How Far From Llewellyn 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 Llewellyn 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 Llewellyn Park and extending to:

  • Newark, which is the Seat of Essex County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 47 miles [75.6 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Llewellyn Park to Trenton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 197 miles [317 km] to the southwest (SW). 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 shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,701 miles [9,174.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,407 miles [10,311.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,284 miles [6,894.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Llewellyn Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Llewellyn 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 Llewellyn 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 Llewellyn Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7876, Longitude: -74.2413       In this case, the coordinates for Llewellyn Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.075 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.679 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.733 degrees.