Castle Mountain
Castle Mountain rises to 3,842 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-northwest, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Medicine Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 11 miles off.
The story
Castle Mountain (12,617 feet (3,846 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana, about 15 miles (24 km) east-northeast of Cooke City. It is located in the Gallatin National Forest and Custer National Forest, just outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness. The peak is the third tallest in the Beartooth Mountains, and the highest point in Carbon County, Montana.
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Wikidata Q28056261, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3842 m
How to reach it
- 10.9 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 12.5 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot-Index overlook · 11 mi
- Rock Creek Vista · 11 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 12 mi
- Falls · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Medicine Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Castle Rock Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Sundance Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Bowback Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Mount Inabnit: 2.1 mi
- Willow Park: 13.0 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 17.0 mi
- Rotary Park: 19.4 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 19.5 mi
- Field School Park: 19.6 mi
- Impasse Falls: 5.6 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 6.4 mi
- Calamity Falls: 6.9 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 11.3 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 12.8 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 15.9 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 19.0 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 24.6 mi
- Reef Creek: 17.9 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 20.5 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 24.9 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 15.9 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 19.7 mi
- Corner Spring: 24.0 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 24.0 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 10.7 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 11.5 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 16.1 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 18.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Castle Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WNW 297° | 3,903.5 m | 9.7 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | WNW 298° | 3,882 m | 10.1 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | ESE 108° | 3,821 m | 2.2 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | ENE 70° | 3,803 m | 4.4 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | WNW 301° | 3,791 m | 9.2 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | W 268° | 3,785 m | 1.1 mi |
| Mount Peal | WNW 302° | 3,778 m | 8.1 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | SE 131° | 3,763 m | 4.0 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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357933707
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