Heart Mountain
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Heart Mountain rises to 2,477 m in Wyoming. Trout Peak stands 3,724 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Monument Hill, a peak 7.0 miles away. Chief Joseph Scenic Highway passes 6.4 miles off. 80 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
The story
Heart Mountain is an 8,123-foot (2,476 m) klippe just north of Cody in the U.S. state of Wyoming, rising from the floor of the Bighorn Basin.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q5692037, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2476.6 m
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
- 24.5 mi off the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway
- 26.1 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Dead Indian Overlook · 14 mi
- Sunlight Bridge Overlook · 17 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 30 mi
- Rock Creek Vista · 30 mi
80 named places within 25 miles
- Monument Hill: 7.0 mi
- Red Butte: 8.1 mi
- Pat O'Hara Mountain: 10.5 mi
- Rattlesnake Mountain: 10.5 mi
- Badland Hills: 11.4 mi
- Hugh Smith Park: 9.5 mi
- River View Park: 9.6 mi
- Circle Drive Park: 9.8 mi
- Don Little Park: 9.8 mi
- Nielson Park: 9.8 mi
- Heart Mountain Interpretive Center: 8.7 mi
- Cody Firearms Museum: 9.9 mi
- Whitney Western Art Museum: 10.0 mi
- Buffalo Bill Center of the West: 10.0 mi
- Plains Indian Museum: 10.0 mi
- Dan Miller's Cowboy Music Review: 10.1 mi
- Wild Sheep Exhibit: 10.2 mi
- Old Trail Town: 10.4 mi
- Cody Firearms Experience: 10.5 mi
- Heart Mountain Relocation Center Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Buffalo Bill – The Scout: 9.9 mi
- Vietnam Memorial: 11.3 mi
- Bear: 10.7 mi
- The English Gardens: 13.0 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 16.5 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 16.8 mi
- Loch-Katrine Bird Reservation: 18.1 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 18.9 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 24.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Heart Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Peak | WSW 258° | 3,724 m | 20.5 mi |
| Dead Indian Peak | W 261° | 3,703 m | 24.5 mi |
| Tibbs Butte | NW 320° | 3,248 m | 24.8 mi |
| Elkhorn Peak | W 268° | 3,210 m | 20.9 mi |
| Jim Mountain | WSW 242° | 3,175 m | 19.9 mi |
| Tolman Mountain | NW 325° | 3,171 m | 22.7 mi |
| Windy Mountain | WNW 291° | 3,121 m | 24.9 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | NW 315° | 3,114 m | 23.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:51 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:21 | 21:06 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:51 | 15:51 | 16:39 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 26 | 37 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 70 | 68 | 59 | 46 | 33 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Heart MTN, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356501661
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