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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 Erwinna, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Erwinna 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 Erwinna:
- 40.500838, -75.072628
- 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 Erwinna
- 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 Bucks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bucks County
- Since Erwinna is near Hunterdon County and also Warren County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hunterdon County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Warren 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 Erwinna
Curious and Interesting Names Near Erwinna ...
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.
- Baptistown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Barbertown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Clay Ridge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Clay Ridge is located in Bucks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Ridge
- Everbreeze Plateau
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Everbreeze Plateau is located in Bucks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everbreeze Plateau
- Jugtown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jugtown is located in Bucks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jugtown
- Kingwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Kingwood is located in Hunterdon County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingwood
- Locktown
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Milltown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Milltown is located in Hunterdon County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milltown
- Mount Pleasant
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Narrowsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Narrowsville is located in Bucks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narrowsville
- Point Breeze
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Point Breeze is located in Hunterdon County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Breeze
- Point Pleasant
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Tumble Falls
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Tumble Falls is located in Hunterdon County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumble Falls
- Upper Black Eddy
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
How Far From Erwinna 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 Erwinna to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Erwinna and extending to:
- Doylestown, which is the Seat of Bucks County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Erwinna to Doylestown, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 96 miles [154.5 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 152 miles [244.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,747 miles [9,248.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,455 miles [10,388.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,331 miles [6,970.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 from Point A (ie- Erwinna) 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 Erwinna 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 Erwinna. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5008, Longitude: -75.0726 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.599 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.226 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.221 degrees. |
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