Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,460 m. Lebo Peak stands 2,743 m to the west-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Spring, a spring 2.6 miles away. 39 named places lie within 25 miles, 13 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.30716, -109.80668

Around it

39 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves17

State Trust: 4.8 mi
State Trust: 5.2 mi
State Trust: 7.1 mi
State Trust: 9.2 mi
State Trust: 10.3 mi

Peaks13

Wild Horse Butte: 4.0 mi
Chinamans Hat: 14.7 mi
Porcupine Butte: 15.5 mi
Suicide Hill: 15.6 mi
Haystack Butte: 15.6 mi

Springs3

Big Spring: 2.6 mi
Cinnamon Spring: 21.0 mi
Bear Spring: 21.4 mi

Parks3

MDT Harlowton Rest Area: 8.9 mi
Fischer Park: 9.0 mi
Crazy Mountains Historical Marker: 11.1 mi

Museums1

Milwaukee Depot Museum: 8.6 mi

Attractions1

Wheatland County Fairgrounds/Rodeo Arena: 8.9 mi

Historic sites1

E57B - the Last Electric Locomotive: 9.0 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
Lebo Peak	WSW 251°	2,743 m	24.8 mi
Cinnamon Peak	W 264°	2,635 m	22.3 mi
Black Butte	SW 226°	2,340 m	24.4 mi
Porcupine Butte	SW 235°	2,137 m	15.5 mi
Coffin Butte	W 278°	1,903 m	20.1 mi
Battleship Butte	SW 225°	1,849 m	20.6 mi
Wheeler Butte	SSW 203°	1,513 m	19.9 mi
Wild Horse Butte	NE 50°	1,473 m	4.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:23	18:52	19:32
June solstice	05:28	20:29	21:16
September equinox	07:07	18:39	19:19
December solstice	08:00	15:45	16:36

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	26	34	41	51	60	67	66	56	44	33	25
Precip in	0.3	0.3	0.5	1.3	2.5	2.8	1.4	1.2	1.1	0.7	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Harlowton, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186903484

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