Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,111 m. Finger Buttes stands 1,273 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 3.5 miles away. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.52849, -104.25858

Around it

66 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves36

BLM: 3.5 mi
BLM: 4.1 mi
BLM: 4.6 mi
BLM: 5.7 mi
BLM: 8.9 mi

Peaks27

Timber Hill: 4.4 mi
Sheep Mountain: 4.5 mi
Belltower Butte: 5.2 mi
Capitol Rock: 8.8 mi
Stormy Butte: 9.0 mi

Ghost towns1

Capitol: 11.3 mi

Cliffs1

The Jumpoff: 23.9 mi

Parks1

Mallula State Game Production Area: 24.5 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	SSW 205°	1,273 m	15.4 mi
Harding Peak	ESE 121°	1,223 m	21.1 mi
Sheep Mountain	SE 136°	1,199 m	4.5 mi
Belltower Butte	NNW 343°	1,198 m	5.2 mi
Stormy Butte	NE 39°	1,192 m	9.0 mi
Capitol Rock	ENE 70°	1,170 m	8.8 mi
Potato Buttes	SW 220°	1,149 m	19.1 mi
Twin Buttes	SW 235°	1,143 m	24.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:01	18:31	19:10
June solstice	05:09	20:04	20:50
September equinox	06:45	18:17	18:56
December solstice	07:35	15:27	16:17

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, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185215015

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