Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park is a park in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 806 m. Blue Mountain stands 904 m to the south-southeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Rock Bridge, a attraction 0.3 miles away. 110 named places lie within 25 miles, 14 of them named summits.
What to expect
How to reach it
110 named places within 25 miles
- BLM: 3.0 mi
- State Trust: 3.1 mi
- MT FWP Black Bridge Fishing Site: 4.2 mi
- State: 4.9 mi
- BLM: 5.2 mi
- Whipkey Park: 3.6 mi
- Babe Ruth Field: 3.6 mi
- Windham SQ park: 4.0 mi
- Firefighter Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
- Community Park: 4.1 mi
- Hungry Joe: 3.2 mi
- Bryants Buttes: 6.4 mi
- Blue Mountain: 7.5 mi
- Custers Lookout: 8.5 mi
- Glendive Butte: 11.7 mi
- Rock Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Baischs Dinosaur Digs LLC: 4.5 mi
- Dawson County Fairgrounds: 5.8 mi
- Wibaux County Fairgrounds: 23.7 mi
- Frontier Gateway Museum: 5.2 mi
- Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum: 5.2 mi
- Pierre Wibaux County Museum: 23.5 mi
- Gateway Museum: 23.6 mi
- Iron Bluffs: 3.5 mi
- Barrs Bluffs: 21.1 mi
- Pierre Wibaux: 22.9 mi
- Wibaux Settler Monument: 23.9 mi
- Pine-on-the-Rock Picnic Site/ Campground: 0.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Makoshika State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain | SSE 148° | 904 m | 7.5 mi |
| Pine Hill | SSE 168° | 868 m | 19.4 mi |
| Four Buttes | E 81° | 864 m | 22.7 mi |
| Twin Buttes | NW 325° | 847 m | 22.9 mi |
| Graveyard Hill | SSE 160° | 822 m | 20.6 mi |
| Rattlesnake Butte | SSE 163° | 817 m | 12.8 mi |
| Mount McKinley | SSE 157° | 817 m | 17.3 mi |
| Glendive Butte | NNW 338° | 802 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:31 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 20:11 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 15:21 | 16:13 |
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 | 19 | 23 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 62 | 48 | 34 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glendive, 4 mi away.
- Plains Pricklypear36 obs
- Great Plains yucca34 obs
- showy milkweed20 obs
- Mountain Bluebird19 obs
- Rock Wren16 obs
- Saltlover16 obs
- plains milkweed16 obs
- Rocky Mountains Ponderosa Pine14 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/651772066
Take the scenic way to Makoshika State Park.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.