Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 901 m. Black Butte stands 1,687 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 2.2 miles away. Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway passes 17 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Bureau of Land Management

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.39567, -108.57752

16.6 mi off the Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

State Trust: 2.2 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
BLM: 4.9 mi
BLM: 5.4 mi
BLM: 6.3 mi

Peaks11

Haystack Butte: 4.1 mi
Button Butte: 8.2 mi
Coal Hill: 10.0 mi
Smoky Johnson Hill: 13.2 mi
Indian Butte: 14.2 mi

Springs5

Parks3

Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River: 17.0 mi
Roy City Park: 18.3 mi
Manning Corral Prairie Dog Town: 23.7 mi

Ghost towns1

Rocky Point: 15.8 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
Black Butte	WSW 239°	1,687 m	21.5 mi
Lookout Peak	WSW 244°	1,614 m	23.8 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	WSW 245°	1,205 m	20.3 mi
Coal Hill	W 261°	1,056 m	10.0 mi
Haystack Butte	ESE 122°	1,027 m	4.1 mi
Three Buttes	SSW 201°	1,023 m	19.5 mi
Dovetail Butte	E 88°	986 m	14.5 mi
Indian Butte	NW 324°	928 m	14.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:18	18:47	19:27
June solstice	05:18	20:27	21:16
September equinox	07:02	18:33	19:14
December solstice	08:00	15:34	16:27

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	20	23	33	43	53	62	70	69	58	44	32	22
Precip in	0.6	0.4	0.6	1.3	2.9	2.6	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Valentine, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186902896

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