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State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 742 m. Rattlesnake Butte stands 1,060 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. 106 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.06153, -107.91848

Around it

106 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves57

BLM: 1.2 mi
BLM: 3.9 mi
BLM: 4.0 mi
BLM: 4.7 mi
BLM: 7.1 mi

Peaks30

Barney Pinnacle: 3.9 mi
Twin Butte: 6.4 mi
Duff Hill: 8.2 mi
Strop Butte: 8.5 mi
Froehlich Butte: 8.9 mi

Springs16

Breed Spring: 6.3 mi
Kettle Spring: 12.0 mi
Circle Bar Spring: 14.1 mi
Mud Springs: 14.5 mi
Chalk Springs: 14.7 mi

Parks2

Jim Bartlett Field: 20.8 mi
George Ore Memorial Park: 20.9 mi

Rest areas1

MT 200 Rest Area: 5.6 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
Rattlesnake Butte	SW 223°	1,060 m	17.9 mi
Manlove Butte	E 96°	1,058 m	23.1 mi
Kirts Butte	E 95°	1,022 m	21.8 mi
Mows Butte	E 96°	1,018 m	21.6 mi
O'Day Butte	E 82°	1,013 m	17.6 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	ENE 72°	1,010 m	19.8 mi
Waddington Dome	E 81°	1,009 m	14.5 mi
Black Butte	ESE 118°	997 m	19.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:15	18:44	19:24
June solstice	05:17	20:24	21:11
September equinox	06:59	18:31	19:11
December solstice	07:56	15:33	16:25

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	24	28	37	47	56	65	74	72	62	49	36	27
Precip in	0.4	0.4	0.6	1.3	2.6	2.8	1.9	1.2	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mosby 4 ENE, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186902123

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