Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 846 m. Haystack Butte stands 1,027 m to the west, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 3.3 miles away. 81 named places lie within 25 miles, 13 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.32387, -108.14748

Around it

81 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves52

BLM: 3.3 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi
BLM: 9.9 mi
USFWS: 10.3 mi
BLM: 10.6 mi

Peaks13

Dovetail Butte: 7.9 mi
Dog Butte: 9.7 mi
Tin Can Hill: 9.9 mi
Duff Hill: 13.6 mi
Sandage Buttes: 15.2 mi

Springs11

Parks4

Crooked Creek Recreation Area: 12.0 mi
UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge: 21.9 mi
George Ore Memorial Park: 24.1 mi
Jim Bartlett Field: 24.3 mi

Ghost towns1

Rocky Point: 24.0 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
Haystack Butte	W 280°	1,027 m	16.9 mi
Dovetail Butte	NW 314°	986 m	7.9 mi
Barney Pinnacle	SE 140°	948 m	23.0 mi
Tin Can Hill	SSE 152°	927 m	9.9 mi
Battleship Butte	ESE 106°	925 m	19.9 mi
Sandage Buttes	ESE 120°	921 m	15.2 mi
Button Butte	NW 307°	903 m	20.9 mi
Finley Butte	E 94°	892 m	17.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:16	18:45	19:25
June solstice	05:17	20:25	21:13
September equinox	07:00	18:32	19:12
December solstice	07:58	15:33	16:25

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	20	23	33	43	53	62	70	69	58	44	32	22
Precip in	0.6	0.4	0.6	1.3	2.9	2.6	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Valentine, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186900067

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