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Brush Lake State Park

Brush Lake State Park from directly overhead

Brush Lake State Park is a park in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 597 m. Snake Butte stands 804 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is USFWS, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. 42 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

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What to expect

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Getting there

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Coordinates48.60296, -104.11240
Around it

42 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves: 18
Parks: 12
  • Sunset Park: 7.9 mi
  • Writing Rock Park: 16.8 mi
  • Noelle Meyer Memorial Park: 18.5 mi
  • Onstad Park: 18.5 mi
  • Medicine Lake Memorial Park: 19.0 mi
Peaks: 7
  • Brush Mountain: 9.0 mi
  • Barr Butte: 10.3 mi
  • Umbrights Hill: 14.8 mi
  • Bull Butte: 18.7 mi
  • Clay Butte: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Museums: 2
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brush Lake State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Snake ButteS 186°804 m23.7 mi
Bull ButteSSE 169°785 m18.7 mi
Clay ButteSSW 194°739 m23.4 mi
Barr ButteESE 107°696 m10.3 mi
Brush MountainS 172°672 m9.0 mi
Indian HillE 88°662 m24.6 mi
Umbrights HillWSW 240°607 m14.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:2819:09
June solstice04:5520:1421:03
September equinox06:4418:1518:56
December solstice07:4715:0916:04

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F111528425463696857422716
Precip in0.30.20.40.92.42.92.61.51.20.90.40.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Medicine Lake 3 SE, 18 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel4 obs
  • Brittle Pricklypear2 obs
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse1 obs
  • Sanderling1 obs
  • American Avocet1 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron1 obs
  • American Bittern1 obs
  • Western Meadowlark1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/342638880

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