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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 Holly Beach, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Holly Beach and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Holly Beach:
    • 29.770779, -93.459322
    • 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 Holly Beach
  • 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 parish-by-parish basis. We have selected Cameron Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cameron Parish
    • Since Holly Beach is near Calcasieu Parish and also Jefferson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calcasieu Parish
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson 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 Holly Beach

Communities Also Named Holly Beach ...

We found three communities that are also named Holly Beach.

Within Louisiana, the name Holly Beach is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Holly Beach is located in Baltimore County and lies 1,169 miles [1,881.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Holly Beach that is located in Cameron Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Holly Beach.
    • New Jersey
      • Cape May County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Holly Beach [Cape May County].
    • Texas
      • Cameron County
      • This Holly Beach is located in Cameron County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Holly Beach that is located in Cameron Parish.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cameron County community of Holly Beach.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Holly Beach ...

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.

  • Bland
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bland is located in Orange County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bland
  • Cove
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cove is located in Orange County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
  • Grand Lake
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Grand Lake is located in Cameron Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Lake
  • Hackberry
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Lakeview
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Lakeview is located in Jefferson County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Lone Pine
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Lone Pine is located in Cameron Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
  • Oak Grove
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Oak Grove is located in Cameron Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Orange
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Orange is located in Orange County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,832 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Orange <3>
  • Prairieland
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Prairieland is located in Calcasieu Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieland
  • Sweet Lake
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Sweet Lake is located in Cameron Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Lake

How Far From Holly Beach 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 Holly Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Holly Beach and extending to:

  • Cameron, which is the Seat of Cameron Parish, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Holly Beach to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,125 miles [1,810.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 44 days and walking would take 64 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,010 miles [11,281.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,725 miles [12,432.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,600 miles [9,012.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Holly Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Holly Beach 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 parish. 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Holly Beach 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 Holly Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.7708, Longitude: -93.4593       In this case, the coordinates for Holly Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.379 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.092 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.576 degrees.