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

  • 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 Lucerne:
    • 43.735073, -108.176199
    • 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 Lucerne
  • 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 Hot Springs County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hot Springs County
    • Since Lucerne is near Washakie County and also Fremont County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Washakie County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fremont 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 Lucerne

Communities Also Named Lucerne ...

We found 21 communities that are also named Lucerne.

Within Wyoming, the name Lucerne is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of 21 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Saint Francis County
      • This Lucerne is located in Saint Francis County and lies 1,110 miles [1,786.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francis County community of Lucerne.
    • British Columbia
      • This Lucerne lies 788 miles [1,268.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
    • California
      • Kings County
      • This Lucerne is located in Kings County and lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kings County community of Lucerne.
      • Lake County
      • This Lucerne is located in Lake County and lies 820 miles [1,319.7 km] to the west southwest of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Lucerne.
    • Colorado
      • Weld County
      • This Lucerne is located in Weld County and lies 286 miles [460.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weld County community of Lucerne.
    • Indiana
      • Cass County
      • This Lucerne is located in Cass County and lies 1,126 miles [1,812.1 km]<1> to the east of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Lucerne.
    • Kansas
      • Rooks 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 Kansas community of Lucerne [Rooks County].
      • Sheridan County
      • This Lucerne is located in Sheridan County and lies 504 miles [811.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sheridan County community of Lucerne.
    • Louisiana
      • Concordia Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Lucerne [Concordia Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Putnam County
      • This Lucerne is located in Putnam County and lies 794 miles [1,277.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Lucerne.
    • Ohio
      • Columbiana County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Columbiana County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbiana County community of Lucerne.
      • Knox County
      • This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lucerne [Knox County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Indiana 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 Pennsylvania community of Lucerne [Indiana County].
    • Quebec
      • This Lucerne lies 1,585 miles [2,550.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
    • South Dakota
      • Haakon County
      • This Lucerne is located in Haakon County and lies 332 miles [534.3 km]<1> to the east of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Haakon County community of Lucerne.
    • Tennessee
      • Lewis County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lucerne [Lewis County].
    • Texas
      • Reeves 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 Texas community of Lucerne [Reeves County].
    • Utah
      • Lucerne #
      • 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 Utah community of Lucerne.
    • Washington
      • Chelan County
      • This Lucerne is located in Chelan County and lies 669 miles [1,076.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chelan County community of Lucerne.
      • King County
      • This Lucerne is located in King County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km] to the west northwest of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Lucerne.
    • West Virginia
      • Gilmer County
      • This Lucerne is located in Gilmer County and lies 1,444 miles [2,323.9 km]<1> to the east of the Lucerne that is located in Hot Springs County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gilmer County community of Lucerne.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lucerne ...

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.

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

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

  • Thermopolis, which is the Seat of Hot Springs County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Cheyenne, which is the State Capital of Wyoming, lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Lucerne to Cheyenne, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,638 miles [2,636.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 64 days and walking would take 93 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,726 miles [10,824.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,494 miles [12,060.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,467 miles [8,798.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Lucerne) 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 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 Lucerne 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.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lucerne, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Lucerne 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 Lucerne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7351, Longitude: -108.1762    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 329.27 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 328.65 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.305 degrees.