Skeleton Cliff
Skeleton Cliff is a cliff in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,018 m. Stratford Hill stands 1,514 m to the south-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Place Where the White Horse Went Down Historical Marker, a historic site 0.3 miles away. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1018 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Afflerbaugh Park: 0.5 mi
- Earl Gus Park: 0.7 mi
- Pow Wow Park: 0.8 mi
- Swords Park: 0.9 mi
- North Park: 1.0 mi
- Ninemile Hill: 5.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Butte: 7.8 mi
- Deer Point: 15.4 mi
- McCormick Hill: 18.4 mi
- Stratford Hill: 20.2 mi
- Yellowstone Art Museum: 1.4 mi
- Western Heritage Center: 1.7 mi
- Wise Wonders: 1.8 mi
- Moss Mansion Museum: 2.0 mi
- Peter Yegen Jr. Yellowstone County Museum: 2.6 mi
- Place Where the White Horse Went Down Historical Marker: 0.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Canyon Creek Battlefield Monument: 15.1 mi
- Lewis and Clark on the Yellowstone: 23.8 mi
- Sacrifice Cliff: 1.4 mi
- Rimrocks: 4.6 mi
- Amend Park Community Garden: 3.8 mi
- Sensory Garden: 8.1 mi
- Shiloh Conservation Area: 7.5 mi
- State Trust: 23.5 mi
- Ghost Cave: 1.9 mi
- Billings Motorsports Park: 14.1 mi
- Christiansen-Graham-Rest-Area: 23.3 mi
- Indian Spring: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Skeleton Cliff. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford Hill | SSW 196° | 1,514 m | 20.2 mi |
| McCormick Hill | S 191° | 1,363 m | 18.4 mi |
| Woody Mountain | SE 144° | 1,321 m | 23.7 mi |
| Round Butte | SW 220° | 1,241 m | 21.0 mi |
| Miller Butte | WSW 250° | 1,218 m | 24.0 mi |
| Square Butte | WSW 244° | 1,150 m | 21.8 mi |
| Ninemile Hill | NW 307° | 1,060 m | 5.8 mi |
| Rattlesnake Butte | NNE 16° | 1,020 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:47 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 20:22 | 21:08 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:53 | 15:43 | 16:33 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 70 | 60 | 47 | 35 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Billings WTP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/357930624
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