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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 Huntridge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Huntridge 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 Huntridge:
    • 37.321803, -79.877260
    • 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 Huntridge
  • 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 Roanoke County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Roanoke County
    • Since Huntridge is near Botetourt County and also Roanoke City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Botetourt County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Roanoke City
  • 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 Huntridge

Communities Also Named Huntridge ...

We found one communities that are also named Huntridge.

Within Virginia, the name Huntridge is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Huntridge in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Nevada
      • Clark 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 Nevada community of Huntridge [Clark County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Huntridge ...

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.

  • Bluestone
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bluestone is located in Roanoke City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluestone
  • Bowling Green
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Bowling Green is located in Roanoke City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowling Green
  • Cloverdale
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Colonial Trail
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Colonial Trail is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Trail
  • Falling Creek
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Falling Creek is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Creek
  • Heatherstone
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Heatherstone is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heatherstone
  • Hedgelawn Gardens
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Hedgelawn Gardens is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgelawn Gardens
  • Hickory Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Hickory Woods is located in Roanoke City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Woods
  • Laymantown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Laymantown is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laymantown
  • Liberty Land
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Liberty Land is located in Roanoke City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Land
  • Lilly View
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Lilly View is located in Roanoke City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lilly View
  • Lynn Haven
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lynn Haven is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Haven
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Meadowview
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Meadowview is located in Roanoke City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowview
    • Mountain View
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Mountain View is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
    • Muse
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Muse is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muse
    • Peachtree
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Peachtree is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachtree
    • Rainbow Forest
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Rainbow Forest is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Forest
    • Rockydale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Rockydale is located in Roanoke City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockydale
    • Runaway Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Runaway Village is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Runaway Village
    • Sleepy Hollow
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Sleepy Hollow is located in Roanoke City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Hollow
    • Spring Grove
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Spring Grove is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
    • Springtree
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Springtree is located in Roanoke City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springtree
    • Stepping Stone
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Stepping Stone is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stepping Stone
    • Sun Valley
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Sun Valley is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
    • Sunrise Heights
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Sunrise Heights is located in Roanoke City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Heights
    • Vista Heights
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Vista Heights is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista Heights
    • Waterfall Lake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Waterfall Lake is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterfall Lake

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

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

  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Huntridge to Richmond, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 188 miles [302.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,086 miles [9,794.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,791 miles [10,929.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,668 miles [7,512.4 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 Huntridge 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Huntridge) 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 Huntridge 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 Huntridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3218, Longitude: -79.8773       In this case, the coordinates for Huntridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.633 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.187 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.459 degrees.