Beartooth Mountain
Beartooth Mountain rises to 3,763 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Thunder Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 7.1 miles off.
The story
Beartooth Mountain (12,356 feet (3,766 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains, the 11th tallest in Montana (tied with Bowback Mountain) and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Custer National Forest. Along a ridge .29 mi (0.47 km) to the northeast lies the spire known as Bears Tooth (11,920 ft (3,630 m)).
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Wikidata Q28057673, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3763 m
How to reach it
- 7.1 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 11.8 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 8 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 8 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 9 mi
- Falls · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Thunder Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Spirit Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Whitetail Peak: 2.2 mi
- Mount Rearguard: 2.2 mi
- Mount Lockhart: 2.5 mi
- Willow Park: 14.0 mi
- Rotary Park: 17.6 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 17.8 mi
- Finn Park: 17.8 mi
- Field School Park: 17.9 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 6.9 mi
- Calamity Falls: 7.3 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 8.7 mi
- Impasse Falls: 9.3 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 12.9 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 14.7 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 16.2 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 21.3 mi
- Reef Creek: 14.9 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 21.6 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 18.0 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 18.2 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 20.6 mi
- Corner Spring: 20.7 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 8.0 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 8.5 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 18.3 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 20.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Beartooth Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WNW 301° | 3,903.5 m | 13.6 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | WNW 302° | 3,882 m | 14.1 mi |
| Castle Mountain | NW 311° | 3,842 m | 4.0 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | NNW 334° | 3,821 m | 2.2 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | NNE 15° | 3,803 m | 4.3 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | NW 304° | 3,791 m | 13.1 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | WNW 302° | 3,785 m | 4.9 mi |
| Mount Peal | NW 305° | 3,778 m | 12.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:52 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:24 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 15:51 | 16:40 |
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 | 27 | 26 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 62 | 54 | 42 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mystic Lake, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357932924
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