Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,146 m. Baldy Mountain stands 2,103 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Goat Mountain, a peak 3.9 miles away. Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway passes 26 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.07049, -109.27822

25.8 mi off the Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks

Nature reserves35

BLM: 4.1 mi
BLM: 6.3 mi
BLM: 7.4 mi
BLM: 8.1 mi
BLM: 8.5 mi

Parks3

Rocky Boy Recreation Area: 18.4 mi
Bear Paw Battlefield - Nez Perce National Historical Park: 21.5 mi
Beaver Creek Park: 24.0 mi

Attractions1

Gilmore Cabin River Stop: 22.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of State Trust. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Baldy Mountain	WNW 288°	2,103 m	18.0 mi
Wellen Peak	WNW 285°	1,930 m	20.1 mi
Little Joe Butte	WNW 287°	1,918 m	21.0 mi
Black Mountain	WNW 287°	1,904 m	20.4 mi
Elk Peak	WNW 287°	1,880 m	20.2 mi
Bowery Peak	WNW 292°	1,860 m	20.2 mi
Bailey Peak	WNW 292°	1,837 m	22.1 mi
Big John Butte	NW 306°	1,804 m	15.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:21	18:49	19:30
June solstice	05:18	20:32	21:21
September equinox	07:05	18:36	19:17
December solstice	08:05	15:33	16:27

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	23	24	32	42	50	59	66	65	55	44	33	25
Precip in	0.3	0.4	0.6	1.1	2.1	3.0	1.7	1.1	1.0	1.1	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chinook 35se, 14 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185783874

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