Nature reserve · North Dakota

Kutz WPA

Kutz WPA from directly overhead

Kutz WPA is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 611 m. Wagon Wheel Hill stands 664 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Peda WPA, a nature reserve 1.9 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

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Coordinates47.13270, -99.29830

Around it

23 named places within 25 miles

Parks9

Chase Lake State Game Management Area: 11.0 mi
Lake Williams State Game Management Area: 14.6 mi
Frettim Township State Management Area: 16.1 mi
Camp Whitney State Park: 16.7 mi
Cleveland Public Park: 18.7 mi

Nature reserves7

Peda WPA: 1.9 mi
Strong WPA: 3.5 mi
Beck WPA: 4.3 mi
Chase Lake WPA: 8.6 mi
Major WPA: 10.8 mi

Peaks6

Round Top: 12.3 mi
Mount Morian: 12.5 mi
Hawks Nest: 14.5 mi
Terpena Hill: 18.1 mi
McPhail Butte: 19.3 mi

Museums1

Foster County Historical Society Museum: 23.1 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Wagon Wheel Hill	NW 305°	664 m	22.4 mi
Hawks Nest	N 2°	645 m	14.5 mi
Mount Morian	NNE 18°	610 m	12.5 mi
Terpena Hill	SSE 152°	592 m	18.1 mi
Round Top	E 91°	587 m	12.3 mi
McPhail Butte	WSW 237°	587 m	19.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:41	19:10	19:50
June solstice	05:42	20:49	21:37
September equinox	07:25	18:57	19:37
December solstice	08:21	15:59	16:51

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	11	16	28	43	56	65	70	68	60	45	30	17

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Edmunds Arrowwood REF, 23 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1420982511

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