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Beaverhead County Museum

Beaverhead County Museum from directly overhead

Beaverhead County Museum is a museum in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,555 m. Tweedy Mountain stands 3,394 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Museum and Depot Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Big Sheep Creek Back Country Byway passes 23 miles off. 91 named places lie within 25 miles, 50 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1555 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates45.21679, -112.63904
Around it

91 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 50
Parks: 17
  • Museum and Depot Park: 0.0 mi
  • Jaycee Park: 0.1 mi
  • West Side Park: 0.1 mi
  • Vigilante Park: 0.5 mi
  • Centennial Park: 0.7 mi
Springs: 8
  • Warm Spring: 14.3 mi
  • Box Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Box Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Mill Spring: 19.2 mi
  • Garrison Spring: 19.7 mi
Attractions: 7
  • "M": 1.4 mi
  • Hangmans Gulch: 17.7 mi
  • Church: 17.7 mi
  • Skinner's Saloon: 17.8 mi
  • Hotel Meade: 17.8 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Cliffs: 2
Historic sites: 1
  • Clark's Lookout Monument: 1.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Aspen Rest Stop: 17.6 mi
Hot springs: 1
Beaches: 1
  • The Sandbar: 18.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tweedy MountainNW 319°3,394 m24.1 mi
Torrey MountainNW 316°3,392 m23.1 mi
Baldy MountainWNW 297°3,211 m21.1 mi
Alturas Number Two MountainNW 304°3,191 m21.8 mi
Barb MountainNW 321°3,190 m23.6 mi
Highboy MountainNW 308°3,174 m23.0 mi
Tent MountainNW 309°3,104 m21.7 mi
Alturas Number One MountainWNW 301°3,067 m21.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3419:0419:43
June solstice05:4420:3721:22
September equinox07:1818:5119:30
December solstice08:0716:0216:52

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634415058656355433122
Precip in0.30.40.71.51.91.90.90.90.91.00.50.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dillon U OF Montana Western, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/271360750

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