Nature reserve · North Dakota

Bunker Lake State Game Management Area

Bunker Lake State Game Management Area from directly overhead

Bunker Lake State Game Management Area is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 587 m. Haystack Butte stands 668 m to the south-southeast, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Crimmins WPA, a nature reserve 2.0 miles away. 23 named places lie within 25 miles, 5 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 587 m

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Coordinates47.23235, -100.35498

Around it

23 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves15

Crimmins WPA: 2.0 mi
Bernhardt WPA: 5.1 mi
Oster WPA: 6.7 mi
Rohrbach WPA: 6.8 mi
Rath/Wonnenburg WPA: 7.5 mi

Peaks5

Haystack Butte: 4.2 mi
Klinks Slope: 18.4 mi
Sibley Butte: 19.1 mi
Twin Buttes: 21.5 mi
Solberg Butte: 24.2 mi

Parks3

Arena State Game Management Area: 13.2 mi
Silbaugh Park: 17.7 mi
Wilton Mine State Game Management Area: 19.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bunker Lake State Game Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Haystack Butte	SSE 168°	668 m	4.2 mi
Twin Buttes	WSW 236°	659 m	21.5 mi
Solberg Butte	SSW 211°	649 m	24.2 mi
Sibley Butte	S 181°	640 m	19.1 mi
Klinks Slope	NNW 329°	618 m	18.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:45	19:14	19:54
June solstice	05:46	20:54	21:42
September equinox	07:29	19:01	19:41
December solstice	08:26	16:02	16:55

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	13	17	29	44	57	67	72	71	62	46	30	18
Precip in	0.5	0.5	0.7	1.2	2.5	3.4	2.5	2.3	1.9	1.4	0.7	0.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MC Clusky, 18 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/800438772

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