Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 708 m. Bonhoff Butte stands 856 m to the west-southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.7 miles away. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 6.0 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.79284, -105.62171

6.0 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

BLM: 1.7 mi
BLM: 3.1 mi
BLM: 3.1 mi
BLM: 3.5 mi
BLM: 3.8 mi

Peaks12

Vanderhoof Hill: 19.9 mi
Lytle Hill: 20.3 mi
Big Butte: 20.7 mi
Corner Butte: 20.8 mi
Rocky Butte: 21.0 mi

Parks8

Lewis and Clark Park: 19.4 mi
Bridge Park: 19.4 mi
Firehall Park: 20.5 mi
Firehall Park: 20.5 mi
Wolf Point Historical Marker: 20.6 mi

Museums3

Wolf Point Area Historical Society Museum: 20.5 mi
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame: 20.6 mi
Wolf Point Area Museum: 20.9 mi

Attractions1

Wolf Point Stampede Grounds: 20.6 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
Bonhoff Butte	WSW 246°	856 m	22.4 mi
Little Heaven	SW 218°	846 m	21.9 mi
Bald Butte	WNW 282°	800 m	22.8 mi
Willis Buttes	W 278°	789 m	21.7 mi
Big Heaven	SW 224°	787 m	23.1 mi
Big Butte	WNW 282°	778 m	20.7 mi
Lytle Hill	WNW 283°	768 m	20.3 mi
Rocky Butte	W 275°	762 m	21.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:06	18:34	19:15
June solstice	05:05	20:17	21:05
September equinox	06:50	18:21	19:02
December solstice	07:49	15:20	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	16	19	32	44	55	63	71	70	59	45	30	19
Precip in	0.3	0.3	0.4	1.2	2.5	2.9	2.1	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vida 6 NE, 13 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214573

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