Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 585 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 21 miles off. 69 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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Coordinates48.11308, -104.68888

Around it

69 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves45

BLM: 1.3 mi
BLM: 2.1 mi
BLM: 2.7 mi
BLM: 5.3 mi
BLM: 5.5 mi

Peaks9

Sugar Top Hill: 12.2 mi
Twomile Hill: 12.7 mi
Haystack Butte: 13.0 mi
Three Buttes: 13.4 mi
Blue Hill: 16.6 mi

Parks7

Swimming Pool Park: 7.9 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 8.3 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 8.4 mi
Fjeseth Field: 17.7 mi
Fort Union Historical Marker: 23.5 mi

Cliffs4

Balls Bluff: 3.2 mi
Mortarstone Bluff: 11.1 mi
Rocky Point: 11.7 mi
The Point: 14.5 mi

Museums4

Culbertson Museum: 9.4 mi
Poplar Museum: 22.3 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 22.9 mi
Poplar Museum: 23.2 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	21.3 mi
Blue Hill	SE 132°	801 m	16.6 mi
Lone Butte	SSE 147°	784 m	18.9 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 115°	765 m	13.4 mi
Clay Butte	ENE 62°	739 m	23.8 mi
Haystack Butte	WSW 247°	734 m	13.0 mi
Antelope Butte	ESE 112°	728 m	22.6 mi
Sugar Top Hill	ENE 60°	695 m	12.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:02	18:31	19:12
June solstice	04:59	20:14	21:03
September equinox	06:46	18:17	18:58
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, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185785610

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