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Exploration Works

Exploration Works from directly overhead

Exploration Works is a museum in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,220 m. Three Brothers stands 2,604 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Exploration Works Community Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
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Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.59766, -112.03619
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Highway Park: 0.1 mi
  • Highway Park: 0.2 mi
  • Centennial / Bausch Park: 0.2 mi
  • Kay McKenna Park: 0.3 mi
  • Wesleyan Park: 0.3 mi
Peaks
  • Daisy Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Sugarloaf Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Meatloaf Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Mount Helena: 1.5 mi
  • Strawberry Hill: 1.8 mi
Historic sites: 12
Gardens: 8
Artworks: 7
Springs: 7
  • Spring Gulch Water Source: 13.4 mi
  • Pauly Springs: 18.2 mi
  • Polly Spring: 20.3 mi
  • Crazy Horse Spring: 21.3 mi
  • Dana Spring: 22.2 mi
Museums: 6
Ghost towns: 4
Attractions: 3
  • Great Northern Carousel: 0.0 mi
  • Fish Hawk Day use Area: 15.3 mi
  • Lorelei day use area: 15.7 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Tenmile Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
  • Lewis and Clark Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
  • Lewis Clark picnic: 15.8 mi
Beaches: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.7 miles of Exploration Works. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Three BrothersSW 217°2,604 m17.8 mi
Casey PeakSE 138°2,588 m15.5 mi
High PeakSE 143°2,585 m15.9 mi
Old Baldy MountainSW 221°2,498 m16.8 mi
Red MountainSW 223°2,482 m13.0 mi
Bullock HillSSE 157°2,413 m18.3 mi
Luttrell PeakSW 226°2,354 m16.3 mi
Lava MountainSSW 211°2,299 m14.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0119:41
June solstice05:3620:3921:26
September equinox07:1618:4819:28
December solstice08:1015:5316:44

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232736455462716959463323
Precip in0.40.40.51.01.92.21.11.01.00.80.60.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Helena AP Asos, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/258342216

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