Mount Blackmore
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Mount Blackmore rises to 3,105 m in Montana. Gallatin Peak stands 3,357 m to the west-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Kinor Peak, a peak 0.5 miles away.
The story
Mount Blackmore is located in Gallatin National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana. Bozeman is located near the East Gallatin River, Gallatin County, Mount Blackmore is south of the City of Bozeman in the Gallatin Range. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey expedition of the Yellowstone area named the peak for Mary Blackmore, wife of William Blackmore, an English land speculator and philanthropist who accompanied the Hayden Survey. Mary Blackmore contracted pneumonia and died in Bozeman, Montana during the early summer of 1872.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q6919753, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3105 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Kinor Peak: 0.5 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Alex Lowe Peak: 1.3 mi
- Mount Bole: 2.0 mi
- Palace Butte: 2.0 mi
- Nash Park: 11.5 mi
- Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Historical Marker: 13.2 mi
- Gardner Park: 13.3 mi
- Gardner and Tuckerman Park: 13.5 mi
- Emigrant Gulch Historical Marker: 13.6 mi
- Practice Rock: 8.1 mi
- Black Line Buttress: 11.1 mi
- Fish Face: 11.1 mi
- First Buttress: 11.1 mi
- Waltz Formation: 11.2 mi
- Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area: 10.6 mi
- Highland Glen Trailhead: 15.7 mi
- Story Mill Nature Reserve: 17.5 mi
- Dome Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 18.3 mi
- USFWS: 18.3 mi
- T-Rex Fossil: 14.9 mi
- Red Chair: 15.6 mi
- "Spirit" MSU Bobcat: 15.6 mi
- Books Box: 16.1 mi
- Sundial: 17.5 mi
- Museum of the Rockies: 14.9 mi
- American Computer Museum: 15.0 mi
- Story Mansion: 15.7 mi
- Children's Museum of Bozeman: 16.2 mi
- Gallatin History Museum: 16.3 mi
- History Rock: 3.3 mi
- Graffiti Quonset Hut: 16.4 mi
- Madison Base: 22.8 mi
- The Guestbook: 24.6 mi
- Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- Childrens Memorial Garden: 16.9 mi
- Community Gardens: 25.0 mi
- Palisade Falls: 3.9 mi
- Michael P. Malone Centennial Mall: 15.5 mi
- Bozeman Beach: 18.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Mount Blackmore. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallatin Peak | WSW 253° | 3,357.3 m | 18.3 mi |
| Emigrant Peak | SE 131° | 3,327 m | 19.1 mi |
| Wilson Peak | WSW 243° | 3,199 m | 17.6 mi |
| Jumbo Mountain | WSW 246° | 3,175 m | 14.9 mi |
| Mount Bole | S 172° | 3,148 m | 2.0 mi |
| Hyalite Peak | SSE 155° | 3,138 m | 4.9 mi |
| Blaze Mountain | WSW 255° | 3,128 m | 20.5 mi |
| Overlook Mountain | SE 132° | 3,122 m | 4.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:28 | 18:58 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 20:31 | 21:17 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 08:02 | 15:55 | 16:44 |
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 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 59 | 67 | 66 | 57 | 45 | 32 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bozeman Montana State Univ, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357933248
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