Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,320 m. Wild Horse Butte stands 1,473 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Locomotive Butte, a peak 3.6 miles away. 43 named places lie within 25 miles, 17 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.18065, -109.34688

Around it

43 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves19

State Trust: 4.0 mi
State Trust: 7.3 mi
State Trust: 9.4 mi
State Trust: 12.5 mi
State Trust: 13.0 mi

Peaks17

Locomotive Butte: 3.6 mi
O'Brien Hill: 4.3 mi
Mount Sinai: 5.2 mi
Indian Butte: 7.9 mi
Chinamans Hat: 9.0 mi

Parks3

Ryegate City Park: 9.2 mi
Lavina City Park: 21.1 mi
Eastlake Pond/Big Lake Waterfowl Management Area: 23.3 mi

Springs2

Mud Spring: 24.5 mi
Big Spring: 24.6 mi

Historic sites1

Chief Joseph: 9.3 mi

Ghost towns1

Wheat Basin: 21.6 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
Wild Horse Butte	WNW 301°	1,473 m	22.0 mi
Lindemulder Hill	S 171°	1,428 m	24.0 mi
O'Brien Hill	W 261°	1,415 m	4.3 mi
Knob Hill	SSW 205°	1,383 m	13.4 mi
Busteed Hill	S 174°	1,378 m	21.8 mi
Locomotive Butte	SSE 164°	1,368 m	3.6 mi
Haystack Butte	NNW 333°	1,349 m	20.6 mi
Mount Sinai	E 95°	1,336 m	5.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:21	18:50	19:30
June solstice	05:27	20:27	21:13
September equinox	07:05	18:37	19:17
December solstice	07:58	15:44	16:35

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	26	28	37	45	53	62	70	68	59	47	34	26

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214404

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