Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,049 m. Finger Buttes stands 1,273 m to the southwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 4.6 miles away. 70 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

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Coordinates45.39585, -104.32115

Around it

70 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves41

BLM: 4.6 mi
BLM: 5.7 mi
BLM: 6.2 mi
BLM: 6.6 mi
BLM: 7.1 mi

Peaks28

Finger Buttes: 5.9 mi
Sheep Mountain: 8.6 mi
Potato Buttes: 10.3 mi
Potato Buttes: 10.7 mi
Three Peaks: 11.2 mi

Ghost towns1

Capitol: 12.7 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
Finger Buttes	SW 216°	1,273 m	5.9 mi
Harding Peak	E 95°	1,223 m	21.2 mi
Sheep Mountain	NE 46°	1,199 m	8.6 mi
Belltower Butte	N 6°	1,198 m	14.2 mi
Wolf Point	WSW 244°	1,198 m	21.3 mi
Stormy Butte	NNE 28°	1,192 m	18.3 mi
Dead Horse Point	WSW 240°	1,183 m	17.3 mi
Tip Top Butte	WSW 250°	1,182 m	19.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:01	18:31	19:10
June solstice	05:10	20:04	20:50
September equinox	06:45	18:18	18:57
December solstice	07:35	15:28	16:18

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	19	22	33	43	54	63	71	70	59	45	32	21
Precip in	0.5	0.4	0.7	1.7	2.6	2.4	2.0	1.7	1.3	1.4	0.6	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ridgeway 1 S, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186902417

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