Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,100 m. Locomotive Butte stands 1,368 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Lavina City Park, a park 5.0 miles away. 44 named places lie within 25 miles, 9 of them named summits.

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What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

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Coordinates46.22407, -108.91245

Around it

44 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves26

State Trust: 5.5 mi
State Trust: 7.2 mi
State Trust: 8.6 mi
BLM: 10.3 mi
BLM: 11.4 mi

Peaks9

Antelope Butte: 5.7 mi
Haystack Butte: 10.1 mi
Naderman Buttes: 14.6 mi
Mount Sinai: 16.0 mi
Timber Buttes: 18.9 mi

Parks5

Lavina City Park: 5.0 mi
Ryegate City Park: 17.2 mi
Cow Country Historical Marker: 21.9 mi
Eastlake Pond/Big Lake Waterfowl Management Area: 22.9 mi
Roundup City Park: 23.7 mi

Historic sites1

Chief Joseph: 16.8 mi

Springs1

Mud Spring: 19.4 mi

Ghost towns1

Wheat Basin: 21.1 mi

Museums1

Musselshell Valley Historical Museum: 23.4 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
Locomotive Butte	WSW 252°	1,368 m	20.8 mi
Mount Sinai	WSW 257°	1,336 m	16.0 mi
Indian Butte	W 280°	1,311 m	24.6 mi
Signal Mountain	E 83°	1,265 m	22.3 mi
Elbow Hill	E 82°	1,236 m	24.2 mi
Antelope Butte	W 260°	1,217 m	5.7 mi
Timber Buttes	N 8°	1,204 m	18.9 mi
Haystack Butte	W 265°	1,190 m	10.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:20	18:49	19:28
June solstice	05:25	20:25	21:12
September equinox	07:03	18:36	19:15
December solstice	07:56	15:42	16:33

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, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214406

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