Distances from Lewiston Orchards, ID to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Lewiston Orchards, ID to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Lewiston Orchards, ID sits in Idaho, on Los Angeles time, at 46.38° north and 116.98° west. The nearest place of any size is Moscow, ID, about 30 miles away — roughly 47 min of driving. 2 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 12 are within three hours' driving of Lewiston Orchards, ID and 101 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Seattle, WA, about 309 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Lewiston Orchards, ID
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Lewiston Orchards, ID. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 6 of 12 — lies to the north, with 4 to the west. Only 1 sit to the northwest. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
3 of those places are in Idaho and 9 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Los Angeles, CA is about 991 miles out, roughly 15 hr 44 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,577 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Lewiston Orchards, ID, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Lewiston Orchards, ID
- Moscow, ID 30 mi · 47 min
- Pullman, WA 32 mi · 50 min
- Walla Walla, WA 80 mi · 1 hr 36 min
- Coeur d’Alene, ID 105 mi · 2 hr 5 min
- Spokane Valley, WA 105 mi · 2 hr 6 min
- Spokane, WA 105 mi · 2 hr 7 min
- Post Falls, ID 107 mi · 2 hr 9 min
- Pasco, WA 118 mi · 2 hr 22 min
- Kennewick, WA 120 mi · 2 hr
- Richland, WA 128 mi · 2 hr 8 min
Major cities from Lewiston Orchards, ID
- Los Angeles, CA 991 mi · 15 hr 44 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1079 mi · 17 hr 7 min
- Chicago, IL 1716 mi · 27 hr 14 min
- San Antonio, TX 1783 mi · 28 hr 18 min
- Houston, TX 1894 mi · 30 hr 4 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2522 mi · 40 hr 2 min
- Manhattan, NY 2566 mi · 40 hr 44 min
- New York City, NY 2567 mi · 40 hr 45 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2573 mi · 40 hr 51 min
- Queens, NY 2577 mi · 40 hr 55 min