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 Crystal Beach:
43.659510, -73.190111
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 Crystal Beach
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 Rutland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Crystal Beach.
Within Vermont, the name Crystal Beach is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Pinellas County
This Crystal Beach is located in Pinellas County and lies 1,199 miles [1,929.6 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pinellas County community of Crystal Beach.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Crystal Beach is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Crystal Beach.
Cecil County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Crystal Beach [Cecil County].
Michigan
Branch County
This Crystal Beach is located in Branch County and lies 609 miles [980.1 km]<1> to the west of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Branch County community of Crystal Beach.
Van Buren County
This Crystal Beach is located in Van Buren County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km] to the west of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Buren County community of Crystal Beach.
New Brunswick
This Crystal Beach lies 362 miles [582.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
New York
Ontario County
This Crystal Beach is located in Ontario County and lies 213 miles [342.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ontario County community of Crystal Beach.
Ontario
This Crystal Beach lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
Texas
Galveston County
This Crystal Beach is located in Galveston County and lies 1,533 miles [2,467.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Crystal Beach that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Galveston County community of Crystal Beach.
Virginia
Accomack County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Crystal Beach [Accomack County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Crystal Beach ...
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.
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 Crystal Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Crystal Beach and extending to:
Rutland, which is the Seat of Rutland County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Crystal Beach to Rutland, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 51 miles [82.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 384 miles [618 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,541 miles [8,917.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,258 miles [10,071.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,133 miles [6,651.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Crystal Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Crystal Beach 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.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Crystal Beach 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 Crystal Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6595, Longitude: -73.1901 In this case, the coordinates for Crystal Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.084 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.034 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.899 degrees.