Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 704 m. Big Butte stands 778 m to the west-southwest, 25 miles off. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 2.3 miles off. 67 named places lie within 25 miles, 4 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Bureau of Land Management

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.99153, -105.56802

2.3 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

67 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves45

BLM: 3.6 mi
BLM: 3.7 mi
BLM: 4.9 mi
BLM: 5.4 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi

Parks11

Lewis and Clark Park: 5.5 mi
Bridge Park: 5.5 mi
Firehall Park: 7.6 mi
Firehall Park: 7.6 mi
Nellies Park: 7.8 mi

Museums6

Wolf Point Area Historical Society Museum: 7.5 mi
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame: 7.6 mi
Wolf Point Area Museum: 7.8 mi
Poplar Museum: 19.3 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 19.9 mi

Peaks4

Three Buttes: 19.5 mi
Maxwell Hill: 23.4 mi
Lytle Hill: 24.2 mi
Big Butte: 24.6 mi

Attractions1

Wolf Point Stampede Grounds: 7.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Big Butte	WSW 248°	778 m	24.6 mi
Lytle Hill	WSW 248°	768 m	24.2 mi
Maxwell Hill	W 263°	740 m	23.4 mi
Three Buttes	WNW 302°	701 m	19.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:06	18:34	19:15
June solstice	05:03	20:17	21:06
September equinox	06:50	18:21	19:02
December solstice	07:50	15:19	16:12

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	14	18	31	44	55	64	71	70	59	44	29	17
Precip in	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.0	3.1	1.8	1.5	1.0	0.8	0.3	0.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wolf PT Intl AP, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185783756

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