Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 622 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Balls Bluff, a cliff 1.3 miles away. 67 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 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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Coordinates48.11064, -104.73477

Around it

67 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves45

BLM: 2.1 mi
BLM: 2.8 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
BLM: 4.6 mi
BLM: 5.4 mi

Peaks8

Twomile Hill: 10.6 mi
Haystack Butte: 11.0 mi
Sugar Top Hill: 14.2 mi
Three Buttes: 15.3 mi
Blue Hill: 18.2 mi

Parks6

Swimming Pool Park: 10.0 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 10.4 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 10.5 mi
Fjeseth Field: 19.0 mi
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 21.4 mi

Cliffs4

Balls Bluff: 1.3 mi
Mortarstone Bluff: 8.9 mi
Rocky Point: 11.9 mi
The Point: 16.6 mi

Museums4

Culbertson Museum: 11.5 mi
Poplar Museum: 20.2 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 20.8 mi
Poplar Museum: 21.1 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 184°	835 m	20.9 mi
Blue Hill	SE 127°	801 m	18.2 mi
Lone Butte	SE 142°	784 m	20.0 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 111°	765 m	15.3 mi
Haystack Butte	WSW 244°	734 m	11.0 mi
Antelope Butte	ESE 109°	728 m	24.5 mi
Sugar Top Hill	ENE 64°	695 m	14.2 mi
Twomile Hill	W 280°	616 m	10.6 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	15:14	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/185785963

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