Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 687 m. Snake Butte stands 804 m to the south-southwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Bull Butte, a peak 5.5 miles away. 33 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.39413, -104.11620

Around it

33 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves16

State Trust: 6.0 mi
State Trust: 6.1 mi
State Trust: 8.3 mi
State Trust: 8.8 mi
State Trust: 9.5 mi

Peaks7

Bull Butte: 5.5 mi
Brush Mountain: 5.7 mi
Snake Butte: 9.4 mi
Clay Butte: 9.9 mi
Umbrights Hill: 14.5 mi

Parks7

Brush Lake State Park: 14.4 mi
Fort Union Historical Marker: 17.4 mi
Sunset Park: 17.4 mi
Snowden Bridge Historical Marker: 17.5 mi
Fjeseth Field: 17.9 mi

Cliffs2

Sowers Bluff: 11.9 mi
The Point: 24.7 mi

Museums1

Culbertson Museum: 24.2 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
Snake Butte	SSW 195°	804 m	9.4 mi
Bull Butte	SE 136°	785 m	5.5 mi
Clay Butte	SSW 212°	739 m	9.9 mi
Barr Butte	NE 41°	696 m	15.3 mi
Sugar Top Hill	SW 230°	695 m	20.7 mi
Brush Mountain	NNE 15°	672 m	5.7 mi
Umbrights Hill	WNW 299°	607 m	14.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:00	18:28	19:09
June solstice	04:56	20:13	21:02
September equinox	06:44	18:15	18:56
December solstice	07:46	15:10	16:05

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	11	15	28	42	54	63	69	68	57	42	27	16
Precip in	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.4	2.9	2.6	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Medicine Lake 3 SE, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185785675

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