Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 702 m. Wild Horse Butte stands 986 m to the west-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is US BOR, a nature reserve 1.4 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.36000, -108.22210

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

US BOR: 1.4 mi
BLM: 3.4 mi
BLM: 3.8 mi
BLM: 3.8 mi
BLM: 4.5 mi

Parks7

Milk River - Dodson Dam Unit Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
Early Day Outlaws Historical Marker: 11.6 mi
Riverview Park: 15.7 mi
Trafton Park: 16.1 mi
Hillcrest Park: 16.2 mi

Peaks5

Black Butte: 19.1 mi
Hubert Hill: 24.2 mi
Button Butte: 24.3 mi
Fanny Hill: 24.7 mi
Wild Horse Butte: 24.9 mi

Museums2

Great Plains Dinosaur Museum: 16.3 mi
Phillips County Museum: 16.3 mi

Attractions1

Phillips County Fair Grounds: 2.9 mi

Ghost towns1

Wagner: 6.7 mi

Historic sites1

Early Day Outlaws: 11.8 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	WSW 254°	986 m	24.9 mi
Black Butte	WSW 238°	864 m	19.1 mi
Hubert Hill	NNE 14°	834 m	24.2 mi
Fanny Hill	NE 55°	795 m	24.7 mi
Button Butte	SE 141°	755 m	24.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:17	18:44	19:26
June solstice	05:12	20:29	21:18
September equinox	07:00	18:31	19:13
December solstice	08:02	15:27	16:21

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	18	22	33	46	56	64	72	71	60	46	32	21
Precip in	0.4	0.4	0.5	1.3	1.7	2.7	1.6	1.3	1.4	1.0	0.7	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Malta, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214592

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