Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 620 m. Snake Butte stands 804 m to the south, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Brush Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away. 29 named places lie within 25 miles, 6 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.48291, -104.11421

Around it

29 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves14

State Trust: 4.2 mi
USFWS: 5.2 mi
USFWS: 5.3 mi
State Trust: 6.1 mi
State Trust: 6.6 mi

Parks8

Brush Lake State Park: 8.3 mi
Sunset Park: 12.3 mi
McInenly Park: 17.5 mi
Medicine Lake Memorial Park: 17.6 mi
Fjeseth Field: 20.3 mi

Peaks6

Brush Mountain: 1.5 mi
Bull Butte: 10.8 mi
Barr Butte: 11.3 mi
Umbrights Hill: 12.8 mi
Snake Butte: 15.4 mi

Cliffs1

Sowers Bluff: 7.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Snake Butte	S 189°	804 m	15.4 mi
Bull Butte	SSE 160°	785 m	10.8 mi
Clay Butte	SSW 200°	739 m	15.5 mi
Barr Butte	ENE 62°	696 m	11.3 mi
Brush Mountain	ESE 114°	672 m	1.5 mi
Umbrights Hill	W 274°	607 m	12.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:00	18:28	19:09
June solstice	04:55	20:13	21:03
September equinox	06:44	18:15	18:56
December solstice	07:46	15:10	16:04

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	11	15	28	42	54	63	69	68	57	42	27	16
Precip in	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.4	2.9	2.6	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Medicine Lake 3 SE, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185786607

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