Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Golden Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Golden Heights and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Golden Heights
- 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 Golden Heights:
- 26.146363, -80.177617
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Golden Heights
- 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 Broward County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Broward County
- Since Golden Heights is near Miami-Dade County and also Palm Beach County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Miami-Dade County
- eBird sighting report for Palm Beach 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Golden Heights ...
We found two communities that share the name Golden Heights.
There is one other community in Florida which is also named Golden Heights.
Beyond Florida, there is another community also named Golden Heights in the United States.
- Communities Located In Florida ...
- Lake 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 Florida community of Golden Heights [Lake County].
- Lake County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- This Golden Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,716 miles [2,761.6 km]<2> to the northwest of the Golden Heights that is located in Broward County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Golden Heights.
- Colorado
Curious and Interesting Names Near Golden Heights ...
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.
- Coral Heights
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Heights
- Coral Heights is located in Broward County
- Coral Hills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Hills
- Coral Hills is located in Broward County
- Coral Ridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Ridge
- Coral Ridge is located in Broward County
- Coral Woods
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Woods
- Coral Woods is located in Broward County
- Fern Crest Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fern Crest Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Crest Village
- Fern Crest Village is located in Broward County
- Flamingo Village
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flamingo Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flamingo Village
- Flamingo Village is located in Broward County
- Harbor Beach
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Beach
- Harbor Beach is located in Broward County
- Lazy Lake
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east) - Plantation
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation
- Plantation is located in Broward County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 96,351 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plantation <4>
- Plantation Isles
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Isles have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Isles
- Plantation Isles is located in Broward County
- Plantation Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Park
- Plantation Park is located in Broward County
- Rock Island
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Island have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island
- Rock Island is located in Broward County
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- Rock Island Village
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Island Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island Village
- Rock Island Village is located in Broward County
- Royal Palm Isles
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Palm Isles have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Isles
- Royal Palm Isles is located in Broward County
- Royal Palms Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Palms Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palms Park
- Royal Palms Park is located in Broward County
- Sunrise Heights
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Heights
- Sunrise Heights is located in Broward County
- Sunrise Key
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Key have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Key
- Sunrise Key is located in Broward County
- Twin Lakes
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
- Twin Lakes is located in Broward County
- Village Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Village Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Park
- Village Park is located in Broward County
- Rock Island Village
How Far From Golden Heights to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Golden Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Golden Heights and extending to:
- Fort Lauderdale, which is the Seat of Broward County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 387 miles [622.8 km]<2> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Golden Heights to Tallahassee, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 22 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 899 miles [1,446.8 km] to the north (N). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 36 days and walking would take 51 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,592 miles [10,608.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,242 miles [11,654.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,159 miles [8,302.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Golden Heights. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Broward County: www.broward.org/
The official website for State of Florida: https://www.myflorida.com/
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Golden Heights 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Golden Heights) to Point B. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Golden Heights to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.524 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.471 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.577 degrees. |