Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 920 m. Steamboat Butte stands 1,177 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is MT FWP, a nature reserve 3.0 miles away. 38 named places lie within 25 miles, 12 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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Coordinates46.11775, -107.72412

Around it

38 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves22

MT FWP: 3.0 mi
MT FWP: 3.2 mi
BLM: 4.3 mi
BLM: 4.7 mi
BLM: 4.9 mi

Peaks12

Mud Butte: 8.0 mi
Fivemile Hill: 8.6 mi
Ninemile Hill: 10.3 mi
Castle Butte: 10.9 mi
Bender Hill: 11.1 mi

Parks2

Veterans Memorial Park: 8.3 mi
Grant Marsh Wildlife Management Area: 20.1 mi

Ghost towns1

Waco: 3.1 mi

Cliffs1

Guys Bluffs: 18.7 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
Steamboat Butte	WNW 297°	1,177 m	20.3 mi
Whiskey Butte	ESE 103°	1,112 m	24.5 mi
Lookout Point	WNW 290°	1,105 m	15.9 mi
Castle Butte	W 278°	1,080 m	10.9 mi
Twin Buttes	N 3°	1,078 m	13.0 mi
Mail Box Hill	N 354°	1,076 m	15.4 mi
Ninemile Hill	NNE 24°	1,057 m	10.3 mi
Mexican Buttes	N 10°	1,052 m	11.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:15	18:44	19:24
June solstice	05:20	20:20	21:07
September equinox	06:59	18:31	19:10
December solstice	07:51	15:38	16:28

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	22	24	33	42	52	61	70	69	58	44	32	24
Precip in	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.6	2.6	2.6	1.3	0.9	1.2	1.4	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pompeys Pillar 15N, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185786247

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