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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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Chokecherry Summer Home Area and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Chokecherry Summer Home 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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area:
- 41.771321, -111.655772
- 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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area
- 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 Cache County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cache County
- Since Chokecherry Summer Home Area is near Rich County and also Franklin County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Rich County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Franklin 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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area
Curious and Interesting Names Near Chokecherry Summer Home Area ...
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.
- Cove
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cove is located in Cache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
- Greens Corner
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Greens Corner is located in Cache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens Corner
- Greenville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Greenville is located in Cache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
- Meadowville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Meadowville is located in Rich County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowville
- Nibley
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Nibley is located in Cache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nibley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,168 people
- Old Limber Pine
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Old Limber Pine is located in Rich County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Limber Pine
- Paradise
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Peter
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Peter is located in Cache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peter
- Pickelville ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pickelville is located in Rich County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickelville
- Providence
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Round Valley ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Round Valley is located in Rich County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
How Far From Chokecherry Summer Home Area to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Chokecherry Summer Home Area to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Chokecherry Summer Home Area and extending to:
- Logan, which is the Seat of Cache County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Chokecherry Summer Home Area to Logan, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 70 miles [112.7 km] to the south (S). 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 1,820 miles [2,929 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 71 days and walking would take 104 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,931 miles [11,154.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,700 miles [12,391.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,684 miles [9,147.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chokecherry Summer Home Area) 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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area 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 Chokecherry Summer Home Area. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7713, Longitude: -111.6558 In this case, the coordinates for Chokecherry Summer Home Area have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.831 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.462 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.551 degrees. |
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