Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 817 m. Henry Woods Mountain stands 989 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 27 miles off. 78 named places lie within 25 miles, 15 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.61745, -104.80407

26.5 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

78 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves57

State Trust: 4.3 mi
State Trust: 8.5 mi
State Trust: 8.6 mi
BLM: 8.7 mi
BLM: 8.8 mi

Peaks15

Simons Butte: 10.7 mi
Bracket Butte: 13.9 mi
Pine Hill: 15.0 mi
Twin Buttes: 16.4 mi
Twin Buttes: 16.6 mi

Parks5

After the Roundup Historical Marker: 18.8 mi
Plevna City Park: 19.5 mi
Walther Park: 21.4 mi
Yellowstone River Historical Marker: 21.9 mi
George Park: 23.7 mi

Cliffs1

Barrs Bluffs: 19.1 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
Henry Woods Mountain	SW 217°	989 m	19.5 mi
Bracket Butte	SSW 213°	978 m	13.9 mi
Cap Rock	E 87°	974 m	22.9 mi
Montague Butte	SW 223°	955 m	19.8 mi
Twin Buttes	WSW 238°	953 m	16.6 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	SW 232°	947 m	17.9 mi
Rocking Chair Butte	ENE 76°	875 m	17.9 mi
Twin Buttes	S 175°	872 m	16.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:03	18:32	19:12
June solstice	05:07	20:10	20:57
September equinox	06:47	18:19	18:59
December solstice	07:41	15:23	16:15

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	17	21	32	43	53	64	71	70	59	45	32	21
Precip in	0.3	0.3	0.6	1.5	2.8	2.3	2.0	1.3	1.4	1.1	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mildred 7 NNW, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186900066

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