Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,013 m. Finger Buttes stands 1,273 m to the south-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 6.1 miles away. 84 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 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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Coordinates45.58245, -104.57610

Around it

84 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves47

State Trust: 6.1 mi
State Trust: 7.9 mi
BLM: 9.0 mi
State Trust: 9.6 mi
BLM: 9.6 mi

Peaks31

Blue Mud Hills: 6.7 mi
Taylor Hills: 7.4 mi
Saddle Butte: 11.5 mi
Chalk Buttes: 11.8 mi
W L Butte: 12.0 mi

Parks4

Attractions1

Carter County Fairgrounds: 21.2 mi

Museums1

Carter County Museum: 21.4 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
Finger Buttes	SSE 153°	1,273 m	19.8 mi
Big Hill	NNW 338°	1,206 m	18.5 mi
Sheep Mountain	ESE 110°	1,199 m	19.8 mi
Belltower Butte	E 85°	1,198 m	13.9 mi
Wolf Point	SSW 197°	1,198 m	23.4 mi
Stormy Butte	E 81°	1,192 m	21.2 mi
Dead Horse Point	S 187°	1,183 m	21.8 mi
Tip Top Butte	SSW 197°	1,182 m	20.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:02	18:32	19:11
June solstice	05:10	20:06	20:52
September equinox	06:46	18:19	18:58
December solstice	07:36	15:28	16:18

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	19	22	33	43	54	63	71	70	59	45	32	21
Precip in	0.5	0.4	0.7	1.7	2.6	2.4	2.0	1.7	1.3	1.4	0.6	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ridgeway 1 S, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185784473

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