Nature reserve · Montana

State

State from directly overhead

State is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 897 m. Coal Mine Hill stands 1,007 m to the north, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 1.8 miles away. 53 named places lie within 25 miles, 10 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: State of Montana

Getting there

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Coordinates48.63551, -106.53219

Around it

53 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves38

State Trust: 1.8 mi
State Trust: 3.6 mi
Local Government: 4.4 mi
Local Government: 10.0 mi
State Trust: 13.4 mi

Peaks10

Lookout: 11.6 mi
Laundry Hill: 15.1 mi
Coal Mine Hill: 17.1 mi
Round Butte: 18.2 mi
Landre Hills: 19.1 mi

Parks2

Opheim Park: 16.3 mi
Liquid Gold Historical Marker: 21.9 mi

Cliffs1

Cameron Point: 10.1 mi

Attractions1

Opheim Fairgrounds: 16.2 mi

Ghost towns1

Thoeny: 24.2 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Coal Mine Hill	N 3°	1,007 m	17.1 mi
Round Butte	NNE 23°	962 m	19.4 mi
Glass Hill	NE 36°	960 m	21.0 mi
White Highland Hills	ENE 68°	943 m	21.0 mi
Johnnys Hill	ENE 71°	930 m	21.5 mi
Lookout	SSE 149°	910 m	11.6 mi
Laundry Hill	WSW 244°	906 m	15.1 mi
Round Butte	N 352°	896 m	18.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:10	18:38	19:19
June solstice	05:04	20:23	21:13
September equinox	06:53	18:24	19:06
December solstice	07:57	15:18	16:13

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	8	11	23	36	47	56	62	62	51	37	22	11
Precip in	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.8	2.1	3.1	2.1	1.1	1.1	0.7	0.3	0.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Opheim 12 SSE, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214567

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