It’s still a long, long way to Webbwood.

In a previous post I listed the 188 aeries closer to Toronto 2311 than is Webbwood 4269, the second-closest aerie to Toronto 2311 within the Ontario Provincial Aerie. This despite only one of them (London 4060) being in Ontario.

So let’s look at the other end: Sault Ste Marie 3991. There is one aerie (Heyden-Goulais River 4061) on the other side of Sault Ste Marie, 15.9 km (17 minutes) away, but Webbwood 4269 is Sault Ste Marie 3991’s second-closest aerie (230 km, 2 hours, 47 minutes) within the OPA as well.

There are 10 aeries closer to Sault Ste Marie 3991 than is Webbwood 4269, all of them in northern Michigan. The next-closest aerie to Sault Ste Marie 3991 after Webbwood 4269, however, requires driving almost the entire distance through the State of Michigan, a total distance of 679 kilometres (6 hours, 19 minutes) to London 4060.

That means every single Michigan State aerie (there are 127 of them) and all but eight of the 25 Wisconsin aeries are closer to Sault Ste Marie 3991 than is London 4060.

Every aerie in Wisconsin as well as every aerie in Michigan is closer to Sault Ste Marie 3991 than is Toronto 2311.

That, in part, would account for the Grand Aerie designating Ontario aeries as Ontario West (Sault Ste Marie, Heyden-Goulais River and Webbwood) and Ontario East (London and Toronto) for purposes of assigning them to different Regions.

Here are the Local Aeries closer to Sault Ste Marie 3991 than Webbwood 4061, with travel time in hours and minutes and distance in kilometers.