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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 Vocation, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Vocation 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 Vocation:
- 44.663286, -108.943471
- 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 Vocation
- 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 Park County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Park County
- Since Vocation is near Big Horn County and also Carbon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Big Horn 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 Vocation
Communities Also Named Vocation ...
We found one communities that are also named Vocation.
Within Wyoming, the name Vocation is unique.
Beyond Wyoming, there is another community also named Vocation in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Monroe 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 Alabama community of Vocation [Monroe County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Vocation ...
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.
- Badger Basin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Badger Basin is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger Basin
- Chance
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Chance is located in Carbon County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
- Clark
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Cody
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Dry Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Dry Creek is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Creek
- Elk Basin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Elk Basin is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Basin
- Emblem
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Lone Tree Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Lone Tree Crossing is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree Crossing
How Far From Vocation 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 Vocation to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Vocation and extending to:
- Cody, which is the Seat of Park County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Vocation to Cody, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Cheyenne, which is the State Capital of Wyoming, lies 320 miles [515 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,678 miles [2,700.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 66 days and walking would take 96 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,690 miles [10,766.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,459 miles [12,004.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,443 miles [8,759.7 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Vocation 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Vocation) 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 Vocation 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 Vocation. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6633, Longitude: -108.9435 In this case, the coordinates for Vocation have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 329.924 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.498 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.642 degrees. |
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