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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 Deer Lodge Summer Home Area, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Deer Lodge Summer Home Area and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge Summer Home Area:
- 40.763847, -109.475971
- 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 Deer Lodge 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 Daggett County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Daggett County
- Since Deer Lodge Summer Home Area is near Uintah County and also Sweetwater County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Uintah County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sweetwater 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 Deer Lodge Summer Home Area
Curious and Interesting Names Near Deer Lodge 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.
- Craig Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Craig Place is located in Moffat County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig Place
- Dry Fork
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Dry Fork is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Fork
- Dutch John
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Dyer ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dyer is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer
- Escalante Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
- Flaming Gorge Lodge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Flaming Gorge Lodge is located in Daggett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flaming Gorge Lodge
- Jensen
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Manila
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Manila is located in Daggett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila
- Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
- Former names for Manila:
- Chambers
- Lewisallen
- Lucerne
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manila <1>
- Naples
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Petes Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Petes Place is located in Sweetwater County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petes Place
How Far From Deer Lodge Summer Home Area 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 Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge Summer Home Area and extending to:
- Manila, which is the Seat of Daggett County, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Deer Lodge Summer Home Area to Manila, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
- Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 126 miles [202.8 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,715 miles [2,760 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 67 days and walking would take 98 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,937 miles [11,164 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 7,704 miles [12,398.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,667 miles [9,120.2 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge 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 Deer Lodge Summer Home Area. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7638, Longitude: -109.4760 In this case, the coordinates for Deer Lodge Summer Home Area have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.039 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.265 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.374 degrees. |
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