Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,013 m. Gardner Butte stands 1,306 m to the west-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. 34 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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Coordinates45.26980, -105.53582

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

BLM: 0.6 mi
BLM: 1.2 mi
BLM: 2.2 mi
BLM: 3.0 mi
BLM: 3.2 mi

Peaks34

Lonesome Peak: 1.2 mi
Baldy Peak: 4.2 mi
Terrett Butte: 4.5 mi
Eldon Mountain: 5.9 mi
Castle Rock: 6.0 mi

Museums2

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

Parks1

Cottonwood Park: 13.3 mi

Attractions1

Diamond Butte Lookout: 19.3 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
Gardner Butte	WNW 283°	1,306 m	16.6 mi
Diamond Butte	W 266°	1,301 m	19.4 mi
Threemile Buttes	NW 308°	1,297 m	23.3 mi
Bear Skull Mountain	SSE 154°	1,295 m	10.1 mi
Baldy Peak	S 173°	1,293 m	4.2 mi
Bailey Hill	WNW 282°	1,282 m	16.6 mi
Phillips Butte	W 270°	1,265 m	21.4 mi
Goodspeed Butte	W 277°	1,208 m	24.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:06	18:36	19:15
June solstice	05:15	20:09	20:54
September equinox	06:50	18:23	19:02
December solstice	07:39	15:34	16:23

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	23	26	36	45	54	64	72	70	60	46	34	24
Precip in	0.3	0.4	0.7	1.4	2.6	2.2	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.1	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moorhead 9 NE, 12 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214591

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