Distances from North La Crosse, WI to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from North La Crosse, WI to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
North La Crosse, WI sits in Wisconsin, on Chicago time, at 43.85° north and 91.25° west. The nearest place of any size is Winona, MN, about 29 miles away — roughly 46 min of driving. One other town of size is within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 81 are within three hours' driving of North La Crosse, WI and 250 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Saint Paul, MN, about 138 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from North La Crosse, WI
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around North La Crosse, WI. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 49 of 81 — lies to the northwest, with 9 to the southeast. Only 1 sit to the north. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
13 of those places are in Wisconsin and 68 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Chicago, IL is about 265 miles out, roughly 4 hr 25 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 1,846 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of North La Crosse, WI, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to North La Crosse, WI
- Winona, MN 29 mi · 46 min
- Rochester, MN 72 mi · 1 hr 26 min
- Eau Claire, WI 79 mi · 1 hr 34 min
- Austin, MN 101 mi · 2 hr 1 min
- Stevens Point, WI 110 mi · 2 hr 13 min
- Dubuque, IA 113 mi · 2 hr 16 min
- Owatonna, MN 116 mi · 2 hr 19 min
- Hastings, MN 117 mi · 2 hr 20 min
- Northfield, MN 120 mi · 2 hr
- Faribault, MN 122 mi · 2 hr 2 min
Major cities from North La Crosse, WI
- Chicago, IL 265 mi · 4 hr 25 min
- Philadelphia, PA 1056 mi · 16 hr 45 min
- New York City, NY 1113 mi · 17 hr 40 min
- Manhattan, NY 1115 mi · 17 hr 42 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1118 mi · 17 hr 44 min
- Queens, NY 1124 mi · 17 hr 50 min
- Houston, TX 1159 mi · 18 hr 24 min
- San Antonio, TX 1245 mi · 19 hr 46 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1540 mi · 24 hr 27 min
- Los Angeles, CA 1846 mi · 29 hr 18 min