Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,074 m. Bald Butte stands 1,710 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 2.9 miles away. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

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Coordinates46.77922, -108.55670

Around it

66 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves48

BLM: 2.9 mi
BLM: 3.8 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi
BLM: 9.6 mi

Peaks8

Three Buttes: 9.8 mi
Bald Butte: 10.1 mi
Button Butte: 14.4 mi
Rattlesnake Butte: 19.1 mi
Kilby Butte: 19.5 mi

Parks5

Jim Bartlett Field: 18.1 mi
George Ore Memorial Park: 18.3 mi
Grass Range City Park: 20.7 mi
Roundup City Park: 22.8 mi
Cow Country Historical Marker: 23.8 mi

Springs4

Milk Springs: 12.2 mi
Big Spring: 14.2 mi
Mud Spring: 21.4 mi
Posey Spring: 23.6 mi

Museums1

Musselshell Valley Historical Museum: 23.0 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
Bald Butte	W 273°	1,710 m	20.2 mi
Button Butte	NNW 329°	1,372 m	14.4 mi
Three Buttes	NNW 330°	1,254 m	9.8 mi
Steamboat Rock	WSW 237°	1,250 m	21.2 mi
Bald Butte	NNW 337°	1,236 m	10.1 mi
Timber Buttes	SW 216°	1,204 m	24.4 mi
Kilby Butte	SSE 153°	1,075 m	19.5 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	ENE 70°	1,060 m	19.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:18	18:47	19:27
June solstice	05:21	20:25	21:13
September equinox	07:02	18:34	19:14
December solstice	07:57	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	25	27	36	45	54	63	70	70	60	47	35	26
Precip in	0.5	0.4	0.6	1.4	2.8	2.7	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Flatwillow 4 ENE, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185215014

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