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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 City Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to City Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 City Park:
    • 40.758557, -111.919937
    • 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 City Park
  • 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 City Park is near Davis County and also Summit 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 Summit 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 City Park

Communities Also Named City Park ...

We found one communities that are also named City Park.

Within Utah, the name City Park is unique.

Beyond Utah, there is another community also named City Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Christian 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 Illinois community of City Park [Christian County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near City Park ...

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.

  • Blaine
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Blaine is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blaine
  • Bullock
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Bullock is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullock
  • Cannon
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Cannon is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon
  • Capitol
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Capitol is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitol
  • Catherine Circle
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Catherine Circle is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catherine Circle
  • Colorado
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Colorado is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colorado
  • Edwards
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Edwards is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
  • Fountain Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Fountain Place is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Place
  • Foxs
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Foxs is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxs
  • Franklin
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Franklin is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
  • Glenn
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Glenn is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn
  • Golden Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Golden Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Park
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Granite
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Granite is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
    • Great Westside
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Great Westside is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Westside
    • High Avenue
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • High Avenue is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Avenue
    • Holland
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Holland is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
    • Hunters
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Hunters is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters
    • Jones
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Jones is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones
    • Jordan Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Jordan Place is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Place
    • Lincoln Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Lincoln Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Village
    • Martins
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Martins is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins
    • Mead Circle
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Mead Circle is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mead Circle
    • Poplar Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Poplar Place is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Place
    • Rock Springs
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Rock Springs is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
    • Salt Lake City
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Silver Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Silver Park is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Park
    • Snow
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Snow is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow
    • Temple View
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Temple View is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple View
    • Thorn
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Thorn is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn
    • University
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • University is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University
    • Wahoo
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Wahoo is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo

How Far From City Park 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 City Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in City Park and extending to:

  • Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies just to the East.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies just to the east (E).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,842 miles [2,964.4 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from City Park to White House, with an average speed<4>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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,999 miles [11,263.8 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 7,768 miles [12,501.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,747 miles [9,248.9 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 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 City Park 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 from Point A (ie- City Park) 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 City Park 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 City Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7586, Longitude: -111.9199       In this case, the coordinates for City Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.947 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.512 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.785 degrees.