Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 906 m. Liscom Butte stands 1,324 m to the southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Wild Horse Mountain, a peak 2.1 miles away. 79 named places lie within 25 miles, 19 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

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Coordinates45.92501, -105.63577

Around it

79 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves60

BLM: 2.1 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
State Trust: 4.2 mi
BLM: 4.7 mi
BLM: 5.7 mi

Peaks19

Wild Horse Mountain: 2.1 mi
Harris Buttes: 3.1 mi
Kirkpatrick Hill: 3.4 mi
Red Butte: 7.9 mi
Saddle Horse Butte: 10.2 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
Liscom Butte	SW 232°	1,324 m	20.6 mi
Hayes Point	WSW 249°	1,148 m	20.2 mi
Maxwell Butte	E 93°	1,134 m	17.0 mi
Twin Buttes	S 171°	1,111 m	14.9 mi
Twin Buttes	E 99°	1,062 m	22.6 mi
Sandefer Butte	SSW 200°	1,059 m	17.3 mi
Castle Rock	SW 228°	1,054 m	16.8 mi
Wild Horse Mountain	ESE 121°	1,041 m	2.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:06	18:36	19:15
June solstice	05:13	20:11	20:57
September equinox	06:50	18:23	19:02
December solstice	07:42	15:31	16:21

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	21	25	36	46	56	66	74	73	62	47	34	24
Precip in	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.6	2.8	2.7	1.7	1.2	1.3	1.2	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Powderville 8 NNE, 29 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185783933

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