Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 664 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 19 miles off. 71 named places lie within 25 miles, 9 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Bureau of Land Management

Getting there

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Coordinates48.07504, -104.69940

Around it

71 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves47

BLM: 1.7 mi
BLM: 2.7 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
BLM: 3.7 mi

Peaks9

Haystack Butte: 11.8 mi
Twomile Hill: 12.8 mi
Three Buttes: 13.0 mi
Sugar Top Hill: 14.1 mi
Blue Hill: 15.4 mi

Parks7

Swimming Pool Park: 9.5 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 9.8 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 9.9 mi
Fjeseth Field: 20.3 mi
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 23.2 mi

Cliffs4

Balls Bluff: 2.9 mi
Mortarstone Bluff: 10.6 mi
Rocky Point: 14.3 mi
The Point: 14.8 mi

Museums4

Culbertson Museum: 10.8 mi
Poplar Museum: 22.0 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 22.6 mi
Poplar Museum: 22.9 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
Flag Butte	S 190°	835 m	18.6 mi
Three Buttes	SSE 165°	830 m	24.5 mi
Blue Hill	ESE 123°	801 m	15.4 mi
Lone Butte	SE 141°	784 m	17.0 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 103°	765 m	13.0 mi
Haystack Butte	WSW 258°	734 m	11.8 mi
Antelope Butte	ESE 105°	728 m	22.2 mi
Sugar Top Hill	NE 52°	695 m	14.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:03	18:31	19:12
June solstice	05:00	20:14	21:03
September equinox	06:46	18:18	18:59
December solstice	07:47	15:15	16:08

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	13	18	31	45	56	65	71	70	60	45	29	17
Precip in	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.9	2.3	2.9	2.7	1.4	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Culbertson, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185785490

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