Badger Mine and Museum
Badger Mine and Museum is a museum in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 304 m. Platte Mounds stands 435 m to the north-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Badger Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 14 miles off. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Seasonal
- Yes
How to reach it
- 13.7 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 23.5 mi off the Grant Wood Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- River Viewing Point · 21 mi
- Shiras Point · 21 mi
- Allison Point · 21 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Badger Park: 0.1 mi
- Lead Miners Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Benton Village Park: 7.2 mi
- Milton B. Wiseman Memorial Park: 7.7 mi
- Swift Park: 7.7 mi
- Leaf Skeleton: 22.0 mi
- Continuum: 22.0 mi
- Resilient: 22.2 mi
- Kerouac Quotation: 22.2 mi
- An Ode to the River: 22.2 mi
- Wisconsin Lead Region: 1.4 mi
- Old Chicago Stageroad: 2.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.5 mi
- Julia Dent Grant: 14.6 mi
- Fort Hamilton: 15.1 mi
- Shullsburg factory tour: 0.2 mi
- Gravity Hill: 1.6 mi
- Saint Augustine Church: 5.6 mi
- Roberts Road Bridge: 6.1 mi
- Carr Road Tunnel: 6.3 mi
- Berry Tavern: 2.3 mi
- The Lafayette County Historical Society Depot Museum: 9.6 mi
- Dowling House: 14.4 mi
- Old Market House: 14.5 mi
- Galena & U.S. Grant Museum: 14.6 mi
- Apple River Canyon State Park: 12.7 mi
- Ipswich Prairie State Natural Area: 12.9 mi
- Belmont Prairie State Natural Area: 13.3 mi
- Horseshoe Mound Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Belmont Mound State Park: 14.9 mi
- White Hill: 2.0 mi
- Charles Mound: 4.6 mi
- Squirrel Grove Mound: 6.8 mi
- Hudson Mound: 7.1 mi
- Scales Mound: 7.3 mi
- Cleary Spring: 7.3 mi
- Marsden Well: 14.3 mi
- Plum Creek Spring: 21.0 mi
- Cedar Spring: 21.3 mi
- Paradise Cove Artesian Well: 23.2 mi
- Hosta Garden: 14.6 mi
- Dubuque Rescue Mission Garden: 22.4 mi
- Fireman's Memorial Garden: 23.8 mi
- Bellevue State Park Butterfly Garden: 24.5 mi
- Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens: 24.6 mi
- Apple Canyon Waterfall: 11.2 mi
- Thunder Bay Falls: 13.1 mi
- Tennyson Falls: 23.2 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff: 21.8 mi
- Kellys Bluff: 22.6 mi
- South Bluff: 24.1 mi
- Bellevue Beach: 18.9 mi
- Grant County Rest Area 106: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Badger Mine and Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platte Mounds | NNW 327° | 435 m | 15.9 mi |
| Belmont Mound | NNW 337° | 427 m | 14.9 mi |
| Little Mound | NNW 330° | 389 m | 15.4 mi |
| White Hill | S 170° | 381 m | 2.0 mi |
| Charles Mound | S 183° | 374 m | 4.6 mi |
| Benton Mound | SE 142° | 367 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Sumner | SE 146° | 357 m | 8.6 mi |
| Scales Mound | SSW 194° | 356 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:36 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 20:00 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:46 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 22 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 68 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Darlington Wwtp, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/232924223
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- Dubuque · 22 mi
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