ForeFlight: Finding an airport near a town

[RonP]

Occasionally I want to fly to a town and find the closest airport. For example Cooks Forest in Clarington (Pa). Since not all small towns are shown on the ForeFlight street map mode I find the town using MAPS. Then I do a stare and compare going back and forth between ForeFlight and MAPS until I find a major city on both near the town I want to fly to. Then zero in on the town, bring up the VFR map and find the closest airport. This is very tedious. Is there a better way to locate the nearest airport to a town in ForeFlight? If not in ForeFlight is there a better way? If possible use Cooks a Forest in Clarington (Pa) in your example. Thanks

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

i went to Airports, typed in COOK FOREST, the state park came up.
I clicked on that, it took me to maps (which I already had on sectionals)
I saved the location (save button) and it looks pretty easy select an airport from there.

the link is a map image (too big for POA apparently)

dont forget the ‘ruler’ function (two fingers) which can give immediate distance between two points

https://ibb.co/6Fbzh83

 

[Tantalum]

I just use Airnav

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

I typed in Cook Forest under Airports, got nothing useful - are you entering it elsewhere?

 

[Dana]

Google Earth with sectional chart overlay.

 

[bluesky74656]

I typed in Cook Forest under Airports, got nothing useful - are you entering it elsewhere?

It works on my phone, but it shows up toward the bottom after some airport results. Maybe this is something that is dependent on your subscription level? I have Pro Plus.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Works same in my phone (those are ipad images)
FF Pro (USA)

 

[Brad Z]

I usually type "airport near XYZ" in Google maps search bar. XYZ can be a city, address, business, point of interest, etc. Google maps is more appropriate than FF for this task since I need to see the road distance to the airport rather than just a straight line distance.

 

[GeorgeC]

I just typed "Clarington, PA" into the ForeFlight search box.

 

[Salty]

It's "Cooks" forest not "Cook" forest. Spent a lot of summer days there. Only public airports near there that I can think of are Clarion and Venango.

 

[Gary Hale]

I am new to ForeFlight so I have no advice for the OP, but I have been using landingfinder.com for years.

 

[Cogito]

Any easy way:
1) Use the maps app on your computer or iPad and find the relevant location.
2) Zoom out until you find an airport.
3) Type in the airport or airport code into ForeFlight. Might be a private airport, as in this case, but you can telephone and ask permission, or try one of the other airports nearby.