Bowback Mountain
Bowback Mountain rises to 3,746 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Inabnit, a peak 0.7 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 11 miles off.
The story
Bowback 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 Beartooth Mountain) and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Custer National Forest.
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Wikidata Q28056269, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3746 m
How to reach it
- 11.2 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 14.6 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 12 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 12 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 13 mi
- Falls · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Inabnit: 0.7 mi
- Elk Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Sundance Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Castle Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Sylvan Peak: 2.6 mi
- Willow Park: 14.9 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 18.3 mi
- Rotary Park: 18.4 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 18.4 mi
- Field School Park: 18.5 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 4.8 mi
- Calamity Falls: 5.3 mi
- Impasse Falls: 6.1 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 13.2 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 14.6 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 20.9 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 23.6 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 17.3 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 18.6 mi
- Reef Creek: 19.8 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 21.8 mi
- Corner Spring: 23.8 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 24.0 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 11.8 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 12.7 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 17.5 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 19.6 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Bowback Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WNW 285° | 3,903.5 m | 9.5 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | WNW 286° | 3,882 m | 9.9 mi |
| Castle Mountain | SSW 197° | 3,842 m | 2.1 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | SSE 151° | 3,821 m | 3.1 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | E 97° | 3,803 m | 3.6 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | WNW 288° | 3,791 m | 8.9 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | SW 220° | 3,785 m | 2.7 mi |
| Mount Peal | WNW 287° | 3,778 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:52 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:25 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 806854 — Bowback Mountain, Carbon County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357958858
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