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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 Mahwah, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mahwah 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 Mahwah:
- 41.088869, -74.143111
- 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 Mahwah
- 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 Bergen County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bergen County
- Since Mahwah is near Rockland County and also Passaic County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Rockland 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 Mahwah
Communities Also Named Mahwah ...
We found one communities that are also named Mahwah.
Within New Jersey, the name Mahwah is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named Mahwah in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New York
- Rockland 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 New York community of Mahwah [Rockland County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mahwah ...
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.
- Chestnut Ridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Chestnut Ridge is located in Bergen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Ridge
- Crystal Lake
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Crystal Lake is located in Bergen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
- Eagle Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Eagle Valley is located in Orange County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Valley
- Fardale
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fardale is located in Bergen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fardale
- Hillburn
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hillcrest
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Hillcrest is located in Rockland County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Ho-Ho-Kus
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Mount Pleasant
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Pleasant is located in Bergen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
- New Square
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Park Ridge
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pearl River
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Skylands
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Skylands is located in Passaic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skylands
- Spring Valley
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Spring Valley Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Spring Valley Village is located in Rockland County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley Village
- Summit Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Summit Park is located in Rockland County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Park
How Far From Mahwah 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 Mahwah to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Mahwah and extending to:
- Hackensack, which is the Seat of Bergen County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Mahwah to Hackensack, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 68 miles [109.4 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 215 miles [346 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,684 miles [9,147.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,392 miles [10,286.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,268 miles [6,868.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 Mahwah 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Mahwah) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Mahwah 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 Mahwah. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0889, Longitude: -74.1431 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.984 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.625 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.555 degrees. |
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