Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,067 m. Dunn Mountain stands 1,440 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 4.3 miles away. 55 named places lie within 25 miles, 12 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.40202, -108.66064

Around it

55 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves38

BLM: 4.3 mi
BLM: 5.4 mi
State Trust: 5.9 mi
BLM: 6.0 mi
State Trust: 6.2 mi

Peaks12

Naderman Buttes: 6.3 mi
Timber Buttes: 11.4 mi
Signal Mountain: 14.1 mi
Elbow Hill: 14.9 mi
Kilby Butte: 16.4 mi

Parks3

Cow Country Historical Marker: 4.9 mi
Roundup City Park: 6.7 mi
Lavina City Park: 15.2 mi

Museums1

Musselshell Valley Historical Museum: 6.4 mi

Cliffs1

Red Bluff: 19.0 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
Dunn Mountain	ESE 123°	1,440 m	18.9 mi
Johnston Mountain	SE 125°	1,420 m	17.2 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 108°	1,397 m	21.6 mi
Square Butte	ESE 107°	1,375 m	22.0 mi
Signal Mountain	SE 134°	1,265 m	14.1 mi
Steamboat Rock	NW 318°	1,250 m	19.3 mi
Elbow Hill	SE 127°	1,236 m	14.9 mi
Antelope Butte	SW 233°	1,217 m	22.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:18	18:48	19:27
June solstice	05:23	20:25	21:11
September equinox	07:02	18:34	19:14
December solstice	07:56	15:40	16:31

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	23	26	33	42	52	61	69	67	57	44	33	24
Precip in	0.5	0.4	0.9	1.9	2.4	3.0	1.4	1.1	1.2	1.3	0.6	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roundup 15 SW, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186903014

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