Lions Park
Lions Park is a park in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,688 m. Castle Mountain stands 3,842 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Carbon County Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 0.4 miles off.
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 26.4 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 13 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 13 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 26 mi
- Falls · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Towne Point: 4.5 mi
- Grizzly Peak: 5.3 mi
- Nichols Peak: 6.0 mi
- Maurice Mount: 6.4 mi
- Wapiti Mountain: 7.6 mi
- Field School Park: 0.2 mi
- Pride Park: 0.4 mi
- Coal Miners Park: 0.5 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 0.5 mi
- Finn Park: 0.7 mi
- Corner Spring: 11.6 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 12.6 mi
- Cherry Spring: 14.8 mi
- Chappel Spring: 15.7 mi
- Poison Spring: 23.9 mi
- Calamity Falls: 13.5 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 13.9 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 24.4 mi
- Impasse Falls: 24.6 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 24.7 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 0.1 mi
- Clarks Fork Valley Museum: 21.6 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 4.2 mi
- Gramps Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 12.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of Lions Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Mountain | WSW 251° | 3,842 m | 19.7 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | WSW 247° | 3,821 m | 18.0 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | WSW 252° | 3,803 m | 15.3 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | WSW 252° | 3,785 m | 20.8 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | WSW 240° | 3,763 m | 18.1 mi |
| Spirit Mountain | SW 235° | 3,746 m | 18.1 mi |
| Bowback Mountain | WSW 256° | 3,746 m | 18.6 mi |
| Sundance Mountain | WSW 252° | 3,728 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:51 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:23 | 21:09 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 15:49 | 16:38 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 26 | 34 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 65 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Lodge, 1 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer47 obs
- Wild Turkey24 obs
- Black-billed Magpie22 obs
- American Robin14 obs
- chokecherry13 obs
- hoary alyssum11 obs
- hound's-tongue10 obs
- prairie pasqueflower9 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/454632410
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