Dancing Lady Mountain
Dancing Lady Mountain rises to 2,235 m in Montana. Rising Wolf Mountain stands 2,899 m to the northwest, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Bearhead Mountain, a peak 2.0 miles away. 75 named places lie within 25 miles, 54 of them named summits.
The story
Dancing Lady Mountain is a summit in Glacier County, Montana, in the United States and it is located within Glacier National Park. Dancing Lady is derived from a Blackfoot-language name. The mountain's former name of Squaw Mountain was changed due to ongoing controversy over the term "squaw".
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Wikidata Q19601576, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,235 m
How to reach it
75 named places within 25 miles
- Bearhead Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Red Crow Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Mount Henry: 2.4 mi
- Medicine: 2.6 mi
- Mount Ellsworth: 2.7 mi
- Aster falls: 4.3 mi
- Appistoki Falls: 4.4 mi
- Rockwell Falls: 4.6 mi
- Running Eagle Falls: 5.4 mi
- Twin Falls: 6.4 mi
- All Chief's Park: 16.6 mi
- Blackfeet Park: 17.0 mi
- Crescent Cliff: 18.2 mi
- Beaver Slide: 23.9 mi
- McCarthyville: 12.2 mi
- Museum of the Plains Indian: 16.1 mi
- Silver Dollar Beach: 20.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dancing Lady Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Wolf Mountain | NW 316° | 2,899 m | 6.9 mi |
| Mount Rockwell | WNW 281° | 2,862 m | 6.5 mi |
| Red Mountain | NW 326° | 2,856 m | 9.2 mi |
| Flinsch Peak | NW 306° | 2,809 m | 8.7 mi |
| Grizzly Mountain | W 264° | 2,755 m | 4.1 mi |
| Battlement Mountain | W 266° | 2,692 m | 9.5 mi |
| Church Butte | WSW 252° | 2,687 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Henry | NW 324° | 2,682 m | 2.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:37 | 19:05 | 19:46 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:50 | 21:39 |
| September equinox | 07:21 | 18:52 | 19:33 |
| December solstice | 08:23 | 15:47 | 16:41 |
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 | 22 | 22 | 28 | 36 | 45 | 53 | 60 | 59 | 51 | 40 | 29 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Glacier, 4 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Glacier National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Feb and Jan; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 791386 — Dancing Lady Mountain, Glacier County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357939452
Day trips start here
- Glacier National Park · 28 mi
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