Nature reserve · North Dakota

Beck WPA

Beck WPA from directly overhead

Beck WPA is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 589 m. Hawks Nest stands 645 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Strong WPA, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. 21 named places lie within 25 miles, 6 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.07339, -99.27311

Around it

21 named places within 25 miles

Parks8

Chase Lake State Game Management Area: 9.8 mi
Cleveland Public Park: 14.5 mi
Camp Whitney State Park: 15.9 mi
Lake Williams State Game Management Area: 16.3 mi
McPhail Butte Historic Monument: 18.5 mi

Nature reserves7

Strong WPA: 1.5 mi
Peda WPA: 2.7 mi
Kutz WPA: 4.3 mi
Chase Lake WPA: 8.2 mi
Major WPA: 9.8 mi

Peaks6

Round Top: 11.8 mi
Terpena Hill: 13.9 mi
Mount Morian: 16.2 mi
McPhail Butte: 18.5 mi
Hawks Nest: 18.6 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Hawks Nest	N 358°	645 m	18.6 mi
Mount Morian	N 9°	610 m	16.2 mi
Terpena Hill	SSE 149°	592 m	13.9 mi
Round Top	ENE 71°	587 m	11.8 mi
McPhail Butte	WSW 250°	587 m	18.5 mi
Mount Pleasant	SSE 153°	580 m	21.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:41	19:10	19:50
June solstice	05:42	20:49	21:37
September equinox	07:25	18:57	19:37
December solstice	08:21	15:59	16:51

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	9	13	26	40	53	63	69	67	58	43	28	15
Precip in	0.5	0.5	0.9	1.4	2.9	3.7	3.3	2.4	2.3	1.7	0.6	0.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamestown 38 WSW, 23 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1420982514

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