Mount Rearguard
Mount Rearguard rises to 3,705 m in Montana. Castle Mountain stands 3,842 m to the northwest, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Spirit Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 4.9 miles off.
The story
Mount Rearguard (12,209 feet (3,721 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Custer National Forest. A small remnant glacier lies to the east of Mount Rearguard, which sits at the western edge of the Hellroaring Plateau.
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Wikidata Q28056295, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3705 m
How to reach it
- 4.9 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 12.4 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 6 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 6 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 10 mi
- Falls · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Spirit Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Metcalf Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Beartooth Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Mount Lockhart: 4.1 mi
- Willow Park: 15.5 mi
- Rotary Park: 16.2 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 16.4 mi
- Finn Park: 16.5 mi
- Pride Park: 16.6 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 7.4 mi
- Calamity Falls: 7.8 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 8.6 mi
- Impasse Falls: 11.5 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 14.1 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 13.8 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 15.7 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 20.2 mi
- Reef Creek: 14.2 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 20.3 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 24.7 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 16.7 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 20.2 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 18.5 mi
- Corner Spring: 18.6 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 5.8 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 8.7 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 20.2 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Mount Rearguard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Mountain | NW 304° | 3,842 m | 6.2 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | NW 313° | 3,821 m | 4.1 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | N 350° | 3,803 m | 5.1 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | WNW 302° | 3,791 m | 15.3 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | WNW 299° | 3,785 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Peal | WNW 303° | 3,778 m | 14.3 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | WNW 292° | 3,763 m | 2.2 mi |
| Spirit Mountain | WSW 244° | 3,746 m | 1.3 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 | 20:24 | 21:09 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 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 | 26 | 26 | 34 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 65 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Lodge, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357938364
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