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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 Holiday Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Holiday Heights 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 Holiday Heights:
    • 43.865243, -91.200971
    • 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 Holiday 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 La Crosse County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for La Crosse County
    • Since Holiday Heights is near Houston County and also Winona County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Houston County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Winona 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 Holiday Heights

Communities Also Named Holiday Heights ...

We found three communities that are also named Holiday Heights.

Within Wisconsin, the name Holiday Heights is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Monroe 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 Holiday Heights [Monroe County].
    • Georgia
      • Hall County
      • This Holiday Heights is located in Hall County and lies 769 miles [1,237.6 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Holiday Heights that is located in La Crosse County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Holiday Heights.
    • New Jersey
      • Ocean County
      • This Holiday Heights is located in Ocean County and lies 910 miles [1,464.5 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Holiday Heights that is located in La Crosse County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Holiday Heights.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Holiday 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.

  • Cold Springs
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Cold Springs is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
  • Dakota
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Dakota is located in Winona County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dakota
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 307 people
  • French Island
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • French Island is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Island
  • Grand Crossing
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Grand Crossing is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Crossing
  • La Crosse
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • La Crosse is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Crosse
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 51,163 people
  • Lakeview ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lakeview is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Maple Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Maple Grove is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
  • River Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • River Junction is located in Houston County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Junction
  • Sunset Point ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sunset Point is located in La Crosse County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Point

How Far From Holiday Heights to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Holiday Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • La Crosse, which is the Seat of La Crosse County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 105 miles [169 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Holiday Heights to Madison, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 808 miles [1,300.3 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,210 miles [9,994 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,960 miles [11,201 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,858 miles [7,818.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Holiday 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Holiday Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Holiday Heights 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 Holiday Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8652, Longitude: -91.2010       In this case, the coordinates for Holiday Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.85 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.361 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.832 degrees.