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 Paramount Park:
47.736209, -122.319572
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 Paramount 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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Paramount Park.
Within Washington, the name Paramount Park is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Paramount Park is located in Greenville County and lies 2,226 miles [3,582.4 km]<1> to the east of the Paramount Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Paramount Park.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Paramount Park is located in Salt Lake County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Paramount Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Paramount Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Paramount 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.
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 Paramount Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Paramount Park and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 55 miles [88.5 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Paramount Park to Olympia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,319 miles [3,732.1 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,764 miles [10,885.6 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 7,526 miles [12,111.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,651 miles [9,094.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Paramount Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Paramount 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 Paramount Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7362, Longitude: -122.3196 In this case, the coordinates for Paramount Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.869 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.43 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.74 degrees.