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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 Bennion, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bennion 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 Bennion:
- 40.638536, -111.93883
- 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 Bennion
- 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 Salt Lake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Salt Lake County
- Since Bennion is near Davis County and also Utah County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Davis County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Utah 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 Bennion
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bennion ...
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.
- Angle View
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Angle View is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angle View
- Barbers
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Barbers is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barbers
- Best View
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Best View is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Best View
- Bowling Green
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Bowling Green is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowling Green
- Clover Hollow
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Clover Hollow is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Hollow
- Cobblestone
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cobblestone is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobblestone
- Coral Heights
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Coral Heights is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Heights
- Diamondville
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Diamondville is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamondville
- Dixie Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Dixie Valley is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie Valley
- Emerald Isle
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Emerald Isle is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Isle
- Erin Meadows
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Erin Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erin Meadows
- Fisher Place
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Fisher Place is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Place
- Continue List (35 more) ...
- Fox Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Fox Hills is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hills
- Grant
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Grant is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
- Green Tree
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Green Tree is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Tree
- Hall View
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hall View is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall View
- Happy Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Happy Valley is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Valley
- Heatherglen
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Heatherglen is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heatherglen
- Hector Heights
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hector Heights is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hector Heights
- Horizon
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Horizon is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horizon
- Kingsgate
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Kingsgate is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsgate
- Landings at Riverbend
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Landings at Riverbend is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landings at Riverbend
- Ledgewood
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Ledgewood is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledgewood
- Liberty ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Little Trieste
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Little Trieste is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Trieste
- Majestic Village
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Majestic Village is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Village
- Marian Meadows
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Marian Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marian Meadows
- Meadow Green
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Meadow Green is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Green
- Misty Meadows
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Misty Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Misty Meadows
- Normandy
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Normandy is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Normandy
- Park Heights
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Park Heights is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Heights
- Quailstone
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Quailstone is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quailstone
- Riverbend
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Riverbend is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbend
- Royal Meadows
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Royal Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Meadows
- Skyview
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Skyview is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyview
- Spring Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Spring Valley is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Stevenson Island
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Stevenson Island is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevenson Island
- Summerwood
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Summerwood is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerwood
- Sunstone
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Sunstone is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunstone
- Twin Peaks
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Twin Peaks is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Peaks
- Twin Willows
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Twin Willows is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Willows
- Valley Center
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Valley Center is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Center
- Valley High
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Valley High is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley High
- Valley Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Valley Park is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park
- Willow Bay
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Bay is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Bay
- Willow Run Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Run Park is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Run Park
- Xanadu
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Xanadu is located in Salt Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xanadu
How Far From Bennion 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 Bennion to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Bennion and extending to:
- Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies just to the North Northeast.
- Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies just to the north northeast (NNE).
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,844 miles [2,967.6 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Bennion to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 105 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 72 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,007 miles [11,276.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,775 miles [12,512.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,754 miles [9,260.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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- Bennion) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Bennion 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 Bennion. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6385, Longitude: -111.9388 |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.95 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.505 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.805 degrees. |
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