Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 666 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 3.6 miles away. 79 named places lie within 25 miles, 9 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

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Coordinates48.00687, -104.75222

Around it

79 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves54

BLM: 3.6 mi
BLM: 3.9 mi
BLM: 5.3 mi
BLM: 5.3 mi
BLM: 5.7 mi

Peaks9

Haystack Butte: 9.4 mi
Twomile Hill: 13.2 mi
Flag Butte: 13.7 mi
Three Buttes: 15.2 mi
Lone Butte: 15.7 mi

Parks7

Swimming Pool Park: 14.3 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 14.6 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 14.7 mi
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 21.9 mi
American Legion Park: 22.1 mi

Museums5

Culbertson Museum: 15.5 mi
Poplar Museum: 20.8 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 21.5 mi
Poplar Museum: 21.6 mi
Historical Society Museum: 23.2 mi

Cliffs4

Balls Bluff: 6.1 mi
Mortarstone Bluff: 10.1 mi
The Point: 18.0 mi
Rocky Point: 19.1 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
Flag Butte	S 183°	835 m	13.7 mi
Three Buttes	SSE 155°	830 m	21.0 mi
Blue Hill	ESE 104°	801 m	15.8 mi
Lone Butte	ESE 123°	784 m	15.7 mi
Three Buttes	E 83°	765 m	15.2 mi
Haystack Butte	WNW 284°	734 m	9.4 mi
Antelope Butte	E 92°	728 m	23.9 mi
Sugar Top Hill	NE 45°	695 m	19.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:03	18:31	19:12
June solstice	05:00	20:14	21:03
September equinox	06:46	18:18	18:59
December solstice	07:47	15:15	16:09

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	13	18	31	45	56	65	71	70	60	45	29	17
Precip in	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.9	2.3	2.9	2.7	1.4	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Culbertson, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186900125

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