Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 987 m. West Butte stands 1,345 m to the southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.8 miles away. 38 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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Coordinates45.26617, -105.29119

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

BLM: 1.8 mi
BLM: 3.1 mi
BLM: 3.9 mi
BLM: 5.2 mi
BLM: 6.7 mi

Peaks38

Fighting Butte: 4.0 mi
Dry Creek Butte: 4.2 mi
Lideen Hill: 5.8 mi
Eldon Mountain: 6.0 mi
Castle Rock: 6.1 mi

Museums2

Wildlife Museum: 13.1 mi
Powder River Historical Museum & Macs Museum: 13.6 mi

Springs2

Church Spring: 16.0 mi
Selway Spring: 16.2 mi

Parks1

Cottonwood Park: 13.3 mi

Cliffs1

Rock Wall: 19.6 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
West Butte	SE 133°	1,345 m	17.9 mi
Signal Hill	SSE 147°	1,319 m	21.9 mi
Bear Skull Mountain	SW 220°	1,295 m	11.6 mi
Baldy Peak	WSW 251°	1,293 m	12.1 mi
Greasy Hill	E 96°	1,238 m	23.9 mi
Mitten Butte	SSE 166°	1,227 m	21.8 mi
Belcher Mountain	ESE 120°	1,222 m	18.7 mi
Yarger Butte	W 274°	1,199 m	18.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:05	18:35	19:14
June solstice	05:14	20:08	20:53
September equinox	06:49	18:22	19:01
December solstice	07:38	15:33	16:22

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	24	27	38	47	56	67	75	73	62	49	35	26
Precip in	0.4	0.5	0.8	1.8	2.7	2.4	1.7	1.3	1.2	1.1	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Broadus, 14 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186898340

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