Beartooth Butte
Beartooth Butte rises to 3,195 m in Wyoming. Castle Mountain stands 3,842 m to the north, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Clay Butte Lookout, a attraction 1.1 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 1.1 miles off.
The story
Beartooth Butte (10,518 feet (3,206 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The peak is located in the Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest. Rising more than 1,500 feet (460 m) to the northwest above Beartooth Lake, the butte is easily seen from the Beartooth Highway. Unlike the granitic rocks that comprise the vast majority of rocks to be found in the Beartooth Mountains, Beartooth Butte consists mostly of sedimentary rocks. It has the most easily accessible rocks of the Beartooth Butte Formation a geologic formation that preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.
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Wikidata Q49011605, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3195 m
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 4.8 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot-Index overlook · 2 mi
- Falls · 5 mi
- Crazy Creek · 8 mi
- Pilot & Index · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Clay Butte: 1.1 mi
- Bird Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Table Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Lonesome Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Metcalf Mountain: 5.9 mi
- Willow Park: 10.4 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 17.6 mi
- Rotary Park: 23.4 mi
- Finn Park: 23.7 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 23.7 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 1.3 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 8.0 mi
- Impasse Falls: 12.9 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 14.5 mi
- Calamity Falls: 14.9 mi
- Reef Creek: 8.0 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 15.9 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 20.7 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 23.2 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 9.0 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 15.0 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 21.4 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 16.5 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 24.1 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 23.0 mi
- Corner Spring: 23.5 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 1.1 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 11.7 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 16.3 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 18.5 mi
- Washoe: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Beartooth Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Mountain | N 355° | 3,842 m | 10.0 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | N 7° | 3,821 m | 9.3 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | NNE 16° | 3,803 m | 11.9 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | NNW 348° | 3,785 m | 10.1 mi |
| Mount Peal | NNW 331° | 3,778 m | 16.3 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | NNE 16° | 3,763 m | 7.6 mi |
| Spirit Mountain | NNE 26° | 3,746 m | 6.6 mi |
| Bowback Mountain | N 358° | 3,746 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:52 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:24 | 21:09 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 15:52 | 16:40 |
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 | 42 | 50 | 57 | 55 | 47 | 36 | 23 | 13 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Silver Gate, 18 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356505882
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