Nature reserve · North Dakota

Chase Lake WPA

Chase Lake WPA from directly overhead

Chase Lake WPA is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 536 m. Wagon Wheel Hill stands 664 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Major WPA, a nature reserve 2.4 miles away. 23 named places lie within 25 miles, 6 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.05994, -99.44652

Around it

23 named places within 25 miles

Parks9

Chase Lake State Game Management Area: 2.7 mi
Camp Whitney State Park: 8.1 mi
Lake Williams State Game Management Area: 9.0 mi
McPhail Butte Historic Monument: 10.7 mi
Frettim Township State Management Area: 13.8 mi

Nature reserves8

Major WPA: 2.4 mi
Strong WPA: 7.0 mi
Peda WPA: 7.3 mi
Beck WPA: 8.2 mi
Kutz WPA: 8.6 mi

Peaks6

McPhail Butte: 10.8 mi
Terpena Hill: 18.9 mi
Round Top: 19.9 mi
Mount Morian: 20.0 mi
Hawks Nest: 20.9 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chase Lake WPA. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Wagon Wheel Hill	NNW 327°	664 m	21.1 mi
Hawks Nest	NNE 21°	645 m	20.9 mi
Mount Morian	NNE 32°	610 m	20.0 mi
Terpena Hill	SE 126°	592 m	18.9 mi
McPhail Butte	WSW 239°	587 m	10.8 mi
Round Top	ENE 76°	587 m	19.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:42	19:10	19:50
June solstice	05:43	20:50	21:37
September equinox	07:25	18:57	19:37
December solstice	08:22	16:00	16:52

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	9	13	26	40	53	63	69	67	58	43	28	15
Precip in	0.5	0.5	0.9	1.4	2.9	3.7	3.3	2.4	2.3	1.7	0.6	0.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamestown 38 WSW, 20 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1420982507

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