Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 875 m. Mount Antelope stands 1,050 m to the southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 15 miles off. 39 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.40849, -105.22855

14.6 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

39 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves25

BLM: 1.5 mi
BLM: 1.6 mi
BLM: 3.4 mi
BLM: 8.3 mi
State Trust: 9.0 mi

Peaks7

Crazy Butte: 6.6 mi
Woodworth Hill: 7.6 mi
High Point: 8.1 mi
Mount Antelope: 12.5 mi
Twin Buttes: 14.1 mi

Parks3

Circle Park: 16.8 mi
Circle Historical Marker: 17.0 mi
Ben Larson Park: 17.0 mi

Attractions2

McCone County Fairgrounds: 16.9 mi
Richey Rodeo Grounds: 17.6 mi

Museums2

McCone County Museum: 17.0 mi
Richey Historical Museum: 17.9 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
Mount Antelope	SW 219°	1,050 m	12.5 mi
High Point	SSW 202°	1,015 m	8.1 mi
Clay Butte	NE 49°	947 m	17.4 mi
Lower Summit	SW 228°	891 m	18.7 mi
Crazy Butte	WSW 241°	876 m	6.6 mi
Twin Buttes	ESE 115°	847 m	14.1 mi
Woodworth Hill	WNW 291°	818 m	7.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:05	18:33	19:14
June solstice	05:05	20:14	21:02
September equinox	06:48	18:20	19:01
December solstice	07:46	15:21	16:13

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	18	22	34	45	55	64	72	71	60	46	32	21
Precip in	0.4	0.4	0.5	1.4	2.6	2.6	2.1	1.4	1.3	0.9	0.4	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Circle, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185784522

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