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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 Deschutes, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Deschutes 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 Deschutes:
- 44.156507, -121.255588
- 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 Deschutes
- 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 Deschutes County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Deschutes County
- Since Deschutes is near Crook County and also Jefferson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Crook County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson 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 Deschutes
Communities Also Named Deschutes ...
We found one communities that are also named Deschutes.
There is one other community in Oregon that is also named Deschutes.
Beyond Oregon.
- Communities Located In Oregon ...
- Sherman 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 Oregon community of Deschutes [Sherman County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Deschutes ...
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.
- Alfalfa
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Cloverdale
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
- Forest Crossing
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Forest Crossing is located in Crook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Crossing
- Lava
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Lava is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
- Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
- Opal City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Opal City is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal City
- Plainview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Plainview is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
- Sisters
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Sunriver
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
How Far From Deschutes 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 Deschutes to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Deschutes and extending to:
- Bend, which is the Seat of Deschutes County, lies just to the South Southwest.
- Salem, which is the State Capital of Oregon, lies 102 miles [164.2 km]<3> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Deschutes to Salem, with an average speed<4>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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,286 miles [3,679 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 130 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,980 miles [11,233.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,745 miles [12,464.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,833 miles [9,387.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Deschutes 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Deschutes) 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 Deschutes 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 Deschutes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1565, Longitude: -121.2556 In this case, the coordinates for Deschutes have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.784 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.979 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.281 degrees. |
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