Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,139 m. Dunn Mountain stands 1,440 m to the south-southwest, 4.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Three Buttes, a peak 2.7 miles away. 46 named places lie within 25 miles, 13 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.31190, -108.28592

Around it

46 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves28

State Trust: 4.2 mi
BLM: 4.3 mi
State Trust: 6.0 mi
State Trust: 8.7 mi
State Trust: 9.0 mi

Peaks13

Three Buttes: 2.7 mi
Square Butte: 3.2 mi
Dunn Mountain: 4.5 mi
Johnston Mountain: 5.4 mi
Elbow Hill: 6.6 mi

Parks2

Roundup City Park: 15.3 mi
Cow Country Historical Marker: 15.9 mi

Cliffs1

Red Bluff: 6.7 mi

Museums1

Musselshell Valley Historical Museum: 15.4 mi

Attractions1

Billings Motorsports Park: 23.1 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
Dunn Mountain	SSW 207°	1,440 m	4.5 mi
Johnston Mountain	SW 226°	1,420 m	5.4 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 104°	1,397 m	2.7 mi
Square Butte	E 92°	1,375 m	3.2 mi
Signal Mountain	WSW 245°	1,265 m	8.5 mi
Elbow Hill	WSW 245°	1,236 m	6.6 mi
Steamboat Butte	ESE 115°	1,177 m	9.7 mi
Chimney Butte	NNE 20°	1,115 m	7.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:17	18:46	19:26
June solstice	05:22	20:23	21:10
September equinox	07:01	18:33	19:13
December solstice	07:54	15:39	16:30

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	25	28	36	45	54	63	71	70	60	46	34	26
Precip in	0.4	0.4	0.7	1.7	2.5	2.9	1.7	1.2	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roundup, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185786597

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