Mount Douglas
Mount Douglas rises to 3,439 m in Montana. Mount Wood stands 3,846 m to the east, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Snowy Peak, a peak 1.0 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 22 miles off.
The story
Mount Douglas (11,287 feet (3,440 m)) is a mountain located in the Absaroka Range, Gallatin National Forest in the U.S. state of Montana. Mount Douglas is the tallest peak in Sweet Grass County, Montana and is within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Mount Douglas is named for E. M. Douglas, of the United States Geological Survey.
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Wikidata Q6920485, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3439 m
How to reach it
- 21.7 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Snowy Peak: 1.0 mi
- Lake Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Breakneck Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Hicks Peak: 3.1 mi
- Chalice Peak: 3.2 mi
- South Pass Creek Spring: 15.0 mi
- North Pass Creek Spring: 15.3 mi
- Quaker Spring: 15.4 mi
- Blind Sheep Spring: 18.1 mi
- Whittaker Spring: 18.2 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 12.8 mi
- Natural Bridge Waterfall: 17.0 mi
- Passage Falls: 18.0 mi
- Impasse Falls: 23.4 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 21.7 mi
- Pine Creek Recreation Area: 22.5 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 3.6 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 16.6 mi
- Natural Bridge State Park: 17.1 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 21.6 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 22.0 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 22.2 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.3 miles of Mount Douglas. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wood | E 98° | 3,846 m | 16.0 mi |
| Mount Hague | ESE 102° | 3,750 m | 15.1 mi |
| Wolf Mountain | SE 134° | 3,582 m | 15.4 mi |
| Twin Peaks | ESE 107° | 3,559 m | 12.8 mi |
| Iceberg Peak | SE 135° | 3,513 m | 17.3 mi |
| Little Park Mountain | SE 125° | 3,499 m | 13.2 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | SE 135° | 3,498 m | 16.4 mi |
| Big Mountain | SE 128° | 3,462 m | 14.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:54 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:27 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 15:52 | 16:41 |
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 | 29 | 29 | 36 | 42 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 28 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NYE #2, 18 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 782517 — Mount Douglas, Sweet Grass County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357934478
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