Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,220 m. Foster Buttes stands 1,355 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Butte, a peak 1.4 miles away. 93 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.04835, -106.09043

Around it

93 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves43

BLM: 2.7 mi
BLM: 4.4 mi
BLM: 4.5 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi
BLM: 6.7 mi

Peaks28

Long Butte: 1.4 mi
Wallop Butte: 3.1 mi
Gobbler Knob: 3.6 mi
Nipple Butte: 3.7 mi
Chico Buttes: 5.0 mi

Springs20

Attractions1

Diamond Butte Lookout: 15.9 mi

Historic sites1

Fort Howes: 16.4 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
Foster Buttes	SSW 212°	1,355 m	23.8 mi
Poker Jim Butte	NW 325°	1,326 m	23.3 mi
L Quarter Circle Butte	SSW 211°	1,308 m	12.8 mi
Gardner Butte	NNE 29°	1,306 m	21.9 mi
Diamond Butte	NNE 29°	1,301 m	15.9 mi
Red Butte	WSW 258°	1,292 m	6.2 mi
Bailey Hill	NNE 30°	1,282 m	21.5 mi
Gobbler Knob	NE 41°	1,278 m	3.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:08	18:38	19:17
June solstice	05:18	20:10	20:56
September equinox	06:52	18:25	19:04
December solstice	07:41	15:37	16:26

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	24	27	37	45	54	64	73	72	62	47	34	25
Precip in	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.8	2.7	2.3	1.7	0.8	1.3	1.6	0.7	0.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Leiter 9N, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185786610

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