Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 685 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 3.4 miles away. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 20 miles off. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 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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Coordinates47.98534, -105.07036

20.3 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

52 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves38

State Trust: 3.4 mi
State Trust: 4.3 mi
BLM: 5.6 mi
BLM: 6.0 mi
BLM: 6.2 mi

Museums4

Poplar Museum: 10.1 mi
Poplar Museum: 10.4 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 10.9 mi
Richey Historical Museum: 23.5 mi

Parks4

Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 10.6 mi
American Legion Park: 11.0 mi
Lewis and Clark Park: 22.3 mi
Bridge Park: 22.4 mi

Peaks3

Haystack Butte: 6.8 mi
Twomile Hill: 11.6 mi
Flag Butte: 18.5 mi

Cliffs2

Mortarstone Bluff: 10.0 mi
Balls Bluff: 16.5 mi

Attractions1

Richey Rodeo Grounds: 23.6 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	SE 131°	835 m	18.5 mi
Haystack Butte	NE 56°	734 m	6.8 mi
Twomile Hill	NNE 26°	616 m	11.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:04	18:32	19:13
June solstice	05:02	20:15	21:04
September equinox	06:48	18:19	19:00
December solstice	07:48	15:17	16:10

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	16	19	32	44	55	63	71	70	59	45	30	19
Precip in	0.3	0.3	0.4	1.2	2.5	2.9	2.1	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vida 6 NE, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185786016

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