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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 Little Medicine, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Medicine and the surrounding 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 Little Medicine:
- 42.384410, -105.978066
- 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 Little Medicine
- 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 Albany County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Albany County
- Since Little Medicine is near Converse County and also Carbon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Converse County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Carbon 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 Little Medicine
Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Medicine ...
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.
- Boxelder
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Boxelder is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boxelder
- Crimson Dawn
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Crimson Dawn is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crimson Dawn
- Dead Man Crossing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Dead Man Crossing is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dead Man Crossing
- Oil Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Oil Springs is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs
- Reed Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Reed Place is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed Place
How Far From Little Medicine 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 Little Medicine to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Little Medicine and extending to:
- Laramie, which is the Seat of Albany County, lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could drive a straight line from Little Medicine to Laramie, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- Cheyenne, which is the State Capital of Wyoming, lies 105 miles [169 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,527 miles [2,457.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 60 days and walking would take 87 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,748 miles [10,859.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,513 miles [12,091 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,464 miles [8,793.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Little Medicine) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Little Medicine 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 Little Medicine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3844, Longitude: -105.9781 In this case, the coordinates for Little Medicine have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 327.493 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 326.445 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.206 degrees. |
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