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Castle Rock Museum

Castle Rock Museum from directly overhead

Castle Rock Museum is a museum in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 220 m. Highest point in Buffalo County stands 417 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Twelve Mile Bluff, a cliff 0.3 miles away. 24 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee: Yes
Step-free access: Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.31968, -91.91378

Overlooks nearby

Carley State Park Scenic Overlook · 19 mi
Garvin Heights Park Scenic Lookout · 24 mi
Lookout · 24 mi

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Alma Beach and Recreational Area: 1.6 mi
Riecks Lake Park: 2.6 mi
Rieck's Lake Park and Campground: 2.6 mi
Peter Heins Wayside Park: 4.7 mi
Veterans Memorial Park: 6.3 mi

Peaks24

Eagle Peak: 12.7 mi
Eagle Point: 13.6 mi
Owl Head: 14.5 mi
Five Mile Bluff: 14.8 mi
Tom Mountain: 15.3 mi

Nature reserves22

Pool 4 Wildlife Management Area: 4.0 mi
Mc Carthy Lake Wildlife Management Area: 4.7 mi
Lower Chippewa River SNA—TNC Addition: 7.6 mi
Whitewater Wildlife Management Area, Osprey Unit: 7.7 mi
John A. Latsch State Park: 11.5 mi

Museums14

Lark Toys: 4.6 mi
Arrowhead Bluffs Museum: 7.1 mi
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum: 14.2 mi
Pepin Depot Museum: 14.5 mi
Rollingstone Luxembourg Heritage Museum: 16.1 mi

Cliffs12

Twelve Mile Bluff: 0.3 mi
Twelve Mile Bluff: 0.3 mi
Pine Creek Bluff: 7.6 mi
Fox Bluff: 10.3 mi
Rattlesnake Bluff: 11.2 mi

Historic sites11

Beef Slough: 3.1 mi
Site of Fort St. Antoine 1686: 18.4 mi
James A. Carley & Ernestina Bolt Monument: 19.3 mi
Fallen Officer Shawn Schneider Memorial: 19.7 mi
Little House Wayside: 19.8 mi

Ghost towns9

Anchorage: 8.5 mi
Whitewater Falls: 14.5 mi
Savoy: 15.4 mi
Springdale: 15.9 mi
Cortland: 18.6 mi

Attractions4

National Eagle Center: 7.3 mi
Rock In the House: 15.8 mi
Historical Society Museum: 20.3 mi
Historical Society Musuem: 20.3 mi

Rest areas4

Lake City Concourse: 19.3 mi
Little House Wayside: 19.8 mi
Lake Pepin Rest Area: 23.0 mi
Wayside 46-07: 23.9 mi

Artworks3

Viking Statue: 6.2 mi
Durand, WI: 21.5 mi
Portrait of a Community: 21.5 mi

Picnic sites2

Trout Valley Trail: 9.0 mi
Picnic Grounds: 19.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Castle Rock Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Highest point in Buffalo County	ENE 70°	417 m	19.0 mi
Eagle Peak	NE 48°	398 m	12.7 mi
Sugar Loaf	SE 145°	370 m	24.6 mi
Farm Hill	NW 319°	360 m	17.8 mi
Nerike Hill	NW 324°	355 m	19.7 mi
Ganoe Hill	NNW 337°	350 m	20.5 mi
Gates Hill	NNW 332°	345 m	20.9 mi
Tom Mountain	NE 44°	344 m	15.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:12	18:42	19:20
June solstice	05:24	20:11	20:56
September equinox	06:55	18:29	19:07
December solstice	07:41	15:44	16:32

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	16	20	33	46	58	68	72	70	62	49	35	22
Precip in	0.9	1.0	1.9	3.5	4.8	5.7	4.6	5.0	4.1	2.6	1.9	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Alma DAM 4, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/784957919

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