Nature reserve · North Dakota

Bernhardt WPA

Bernhardt WPA from directly overhead

Bernhardt WPA is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 590 m. Haystack Butte stands 668 m to the south, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Oster WPA, a nature reserve 1.7 miles away. 24 named places lie within 25 miles, 4 of them named summits.

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What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

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Coordinates47.30594, -100.35282

Around it

24 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves17

Oster WPA: 1.7 mi
Crimmins WPA: 3.1 mi
Dockter WPA: 4.7 mi
Rohrbach WPA: 5.0 mi
Bunker Lake State Game Management Area: 5.1 mi

Peaks4

Haystack Butte: 9.2 mi
Klinks Slope: 14.3 mi
Sibley Butte: 24.2 mi
Twin Buttes: 24.8 mi

Parks3

Silbaugh Park: 12.9 mi
Arena State Game Management Area: 16.9 mi
Wilton Mine State Game Management Area: 21.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Haystack Butte	S 175°	668 m	9.2 mi
Twin Buttes	SW 227°	659 m	24.8 mi
Sibley Butte	S 181°	640 m	24.2 mi
Klinks Slope	NW 318°	618 m	14.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:45	19:14	19:54
June solstice	05:46	20:54	21:42
September equinox	07:29	19:01	19:41
December solstice	08:26	16:02	16:54

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	13	17	29	44	57	67	72	71	62	46	30	18
Precip in	0.5	0.5	0.7	1.2	2.5	3.4	2.5	2.3	1.9	1.4	0.7	0.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MC Clusky, 13 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1420829879

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