Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 748 m. Square Butte stands 861 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. Big Sky Back Country Byway passes 23 miles off. 80 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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Coordinates47.51911, -106.15986

23.2 mi off the Big Sky Back Country Byway

Around it

80 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves47

BLM: 1.5 mi
State Trust: 5.1 mi
State Trust: 5.6 mi
State Trust: 7.0 mi
BLM: 7.1 mi

Peaks28

Cobb Hill: 4.8 mi
Devils Table Rock: 5.1 mi
McDonald Butte: 5.3 mi
Big Heaven: 9.3 mi
Indian Rocks: 10.5 mi

Parks4

Nelson Creek Recreation Area: 4.1 mi
McGuire Creek Recreation Area: 6.6 mi
Dinosaurs Historical Marker: 13.4 mi
Rock Creek State Park: 18.1 mi

Rest areas1

Flowing Wells Road Rest Area: 13.4 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
Square Butte	NW 309°	861 m	20.6 mi
Bonhoff Butte	NNE 25°	856 m	10.8 mi
McDonald Butte	ESE 104°	847 m	5.3 mi
Little Heaven	E 81°	846 m	11.6 mi
Stony Butte Hill	SE 125°	846 m	22.7 mi
Cobb Hill	SSE 161°	838 m	4.8 mi
Devils Table Rock	ENE 71°	838 m	5.1 mi
Twin Buttes	S 183°	836 m	19.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:08	18:37	19:17
June solstice	05:08	20:18	21:06
September equinox	06:52	18:24	19:04
December solstice	07:50	15:24	16:17

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	18	22	33	44	54	63	71	70	59	45	31	21
Precip in	0.2	0.2	0.3	1.2	2.5	2.5	2.1	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.2	0.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brockway 3 WSW, 22 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185783867

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