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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 Hide-A-Way Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hide-A-Way Hills 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 Hide-A-Way Hills:
- 35.938956, -85.056903
- 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 Hide-A-Way Hills
- 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 Cumberland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland County
- Since Hide-A-Way Hills is near White County and also Putnam County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for White County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Putnam 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 Hide-A-Way Hills
Communities Also Named Hide-A-Way Hills ...
We found one communities that are also named Hide-A-Way Hills.
Within Tennessee, the name Hide-A-Way Hills is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Hide-A-Way Hills in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
- Fairfield 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 Ohio community of Hide-A-Way Hills [Fairfield County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hide-A-Way Hills ...
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.
- Camelot
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Camelot is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
- Crossville
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Fairyland
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Fairyland is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairyland
- Foxfire
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Foxfire is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxfire
- Hillcrest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hillcrest is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Holiday Hills
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Holiday Hills is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
- Howard Springs
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Howard Springs is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard Springs
- Livesay
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Livesay is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livesay
- Meadowview
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Meadowview is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowview
- Volunteer Heights
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Volunteer Heights is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volunteer Heights
How Far From Hide-A-Way Hills 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 Hide-A-Way Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Hide-A-Way Hills and extending to:
- Crossville, which is the Seat of Cumberland County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<3> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Hide-A-Way Hills to Nashville, 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 484 miles [778.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 28 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,365 miles [10,243.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,078 miles [11,390.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,954 miles [7,972.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 Hide-A-Way Hills 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hide-A-Way Hills) 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 Hide-A-Way Hills 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 Hide-A-Way Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9390, Longitude: -85.0569 In this case, the coordinates for Hide-A-Way Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.73 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.535 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.013 degrees. |
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