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State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 630 m. Blue Mountain stands 904 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is MT FWP, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. 97 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Montana State Trust Lands
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.19789, -104.67800
Around it

97 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves: 54
Parks: 24
  • Meissner American Legion Baseball Field: 4.7 mi
  • Hollecker Park: 5.4 mi
  • Penninger Park: 5.5 mi
  • Boy with Dog Park: 5.8 mi
  • Lloyd Square Park: 5.9 mi
Peaks: 11
  • Custers Lookout: 2.9 mi
  • Glendive Butte: 4.4 mi
  • Bryants Buttes: 4.5 mi
  • Hungry Joe: 7.1 mi
  • Cluster Buttes: 15.4 mi
Attractions: 3
  • Dawson County Fairgrounds: 4.5 mi
  • Baischs Dinosaur Digs LLC: 6.4 mi
  • Rock Bridge: 10.0 mi
Museums: 3
Picnic sites: 1
  • Pine-on-the-Rock Picnic Site/ Campground: 9.6 mi
Cliffs: 1
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.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MountainSSE 166°904 m17.0 mi
Blue MountainE 80°878 m24.3 mi
Four ButtesESE 106°864 m23.4 mi
Twin ButtesWNW 304°847 m15.6 mi
Rattlesnake ButteS 170°817 m22.7 mi
Glendive ButteW 280°802 m4.4 mi
Cluster ButtesE 99°779 m15.4 mi
BeehiveENE 70°748 m22.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3119:11
June solstice05:0420:1120:59
September equinox06:4618:1818:58
December solstice07:4315:2016:12

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192335475766747362483423
Precip in0.40.40.51.52.62.42.21.51.41.10.50.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glendive, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214411

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