Baboon Mountain
Baboon Mountain rises to 3,120 m in Montana. Wolf Mountain stands 3,582 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Independence Peak, a peak 1.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 19 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Montana, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49009426, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,120 m
How to reach it
- 19.3 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 28 mi
- Crazy Creek · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Independence Peak: 1.3 mi
- Monument Peak: 2.4 mi
- War Eagle Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Haystack Peak: 2.7 mi
- Sheepherder Peak: 4.0 mi
- Passage Falls: 12.8 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 19.0 mi
- Natural Bridge Waterfall: 22.1 mi
- Lost Creek Falls: 23.9 mi
- Tower Fall: 24.4 mi
- Natural Bridge State Park: 22.1 mi
- Petrified Tree: 23.9 mi
- Devil's Den: 24.4 mi
- Soda Butte Cone: 24.6 mi
- Frog Rock: 24.8 mi
- South Pass Creek Spring: 22.0 mi
- North Pass Creek Spring: 22.3 mi
- Quaker Spring: 22.4 mi
- Calcite Springs: 23.8 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 18.6 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 21.6 mi
- Yellowstone River Picnic Area: 23.1 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 23.3 mi
- Overhanging Cliff: 24.2 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 7.6 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 19.6 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 20.5 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 21.0 mi
- Pine Creek Recreation Area: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.4 miles of Baboon Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Mountain | ESE 109° | 3,582 m | 16.5 mi |
| Twin Peaks | E 85° | 3,559 m | 16.8 mi |
| Little Park Mountain | E 98° | 3,499 m | 15.6 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | ESE 111° | 3,498 m | 17.4 mi |
| Big Mountain | ESE 102° | 3,462 m | 16.5 mi |
| Mount Douglas | NE 41° | 3,439 m | 7.0 mi |
| Tumble Mountain | ENE 58° | 3,435 m | 12.0 mi |
| Mount Fox | ESE 117° | 3,418 m | 16.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:55 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 20:27 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:41 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 15:53 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jul–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 15 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 41 | 49 | 56 | 54 | 47 | 36 | 22 | 14 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cooke City 2 W, 20 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357932667
Day trips start here
- Gardiner · 27 mi
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