Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,063 m. Dunn Mountain stands 1,440 m to the west-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 3.4 miles away. 55 named places lie within 25 miles, 20 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.31260, -108.03957

Around it

55 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves33

BLM: 3.4 mi
State Trust: 4.1 mi
State Trust: 8.6 mi
BLM: 9.2 mi
State Trust: 9.3 mi

Peaks20

Steamboat Butte: 5.1 mi
Lookout Point: 8.0 mi
Square Butte: 8.6 mi
Three Buttes: 9.2 mi
Chimney Butte: 11.6 mi

Cliffs1

Red Bluff: 16.1 mi

Ghost towns1

Waco: 22.9 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
Dunn Mountain	WSW 254°	1,440 m	14.4 mi
Johnston Mountain	WSW 257°	1,420 m	16.1 mi
Three Buttes	W 266°	1,397 m	9.2 mi
Square Butte	W 269°	1,375 m	8.6 mi
Signal Mountain	W 260°	1,265 m	19.9 mi
Elbow Hill	W 261°	1,236 m	18.0 mi
Steamboat Butte	SW 215°	1,177 m	5.1 mi
Chimney Butte	NW 310°	1,115 m	11.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:16	18:45	19:25
June solstice	05:21	20:22	21:09
September equinox	07:00	18:32	19:12
December solstice	07:53	15:38	16:29

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	22	24	33	42	52	61	70	69	58	44	32	24
Precip in	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.6	2.6	2.6	1.3	0.9	1.2	1.4	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pompeys Pillar 15N, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185784539

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