Black Butte
Black Butte rises to 2,523 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Three Sisters, a peak 3.6 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Carbon County, Montana, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49013183, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,523 m
How to reach it
- 16.4 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 24.2 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 18 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 18 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 23 mi
- Pilot & Index · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Three Sisters: 3.6 mi
- Crow Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Butcher Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Saddleback Mountain: 6.1 mi
- Prairieview Mountain: 6.7 mi
- Lower Cottonwood Spring: 18.3 mi
- Upper Cottonwood Spring: 18.7 mi
- South Robinson Spring: 18.7 mi
- Ekwortzel Spring: 19.0 mi
- Lundy Spring: 19.2 mi
- Field School Park: 17.5 mi
- Lions Park: 17.5 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 17.6 mi
- Pride Park: 17.6 mi
- Coal Miners Park: 17.6 mi
- Calamity Falls: 8.0 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 8.2 mi
- Impasse Falls: 12.7 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 15.5 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 22.8 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 13.4 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 16.7 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 17.5 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 24.1 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 17.8 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 22.4 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 24.2 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of Black Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | SW 236° | 3,904 m | 12.8 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | WSW 238° | 3,882 m | 12.9 mi |
| Mount Wood | W 273° | 3,846 m | 10.8 mi |
| Castle Mountain | S 190° | 3,842 m | 11.8 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | S 179° | 3,821 m | 12.3 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | SSE 168° | 3,803 m | 10.3 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | SW 235° | 3,791 m | 12.0 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | SSW 195° | 3,785 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 | 05:31 | 20:25 | 21:11 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 15:50 | 16:39 |
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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 779978 — Black Butte, Carbon County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357933200
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