Cliff · Montana

Balls Bluff

Balls Bluff, seen from above at true elevation

Balls Bluff is a cliff in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 674 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.3 miles away. 68 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 674 m

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Coordinates48.09585, -104.75330

Around it

68 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves48

BLM: 1.3 mi
BLM: 2.9 mi
BLM: 3.2 mi
BLM: 3.5 mi
BLM: 3.6 mi

Peaks7

Haystack Butte: 9.8 mi
Twomile Hill: 10.0 mi
Sugar Top Hill: 15.4 mi
Three Buttes: 15.8 mi
Blue Hill: 18.3 mi

Parks6

Swimming Pool Park: 11.1 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 11.5 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 11.6 mi
Fjeseth Field: 20.3 mi
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 20.6 mi

Museums4

Culbertson Museum: 12.6 mi
Poplar Museum: 19.4 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 20.0 mi
Poplar Museum: 20.3 mi

Cliffs3

Mortarstone Bluff: 8.0 mi
Rocky Point: 13.1 mi
The Point: 17.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Flag Butte	S 182°	835 m	19.8 mi
Blue Hill	ESE 123°	801 m	18.3 mi
Lone Butte	SE 138°	784 m	19.7 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 106°	765 m	15.8 mi
Haystack Butte	WSW 247°	734 m	9.8 mi
Sugar Top Hill	ENE 62°	695 m	15.4 mi
Twomile Hill	WNW 286°	616 m	10.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:03	18:31	19:12
June solstice	05:00	20:14	21:03
September equinox	06:46	18:18	18:59
December solstice	07:47	15:15	16:09

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	13	18	31	45	56	65	71	70	60	45	29	17
Precip in	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.9	2.3	2.9	2.7	1.4	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Culbertson, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/357923676

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