Mount Wood
Mount Wood rises to 3,846 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the south, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Hague, a peak 1.5 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 18 miles off.
The story
Mount Wood (12,660 feet (3,859 m)) is the highest summit in the Granite Range, a subrange of the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. It is located within the Custer National Forest.
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Wikidata Q6924651, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,846 m
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 24.1 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 22 mi
- Crazy Creek · 23 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 25 mi
- Rock Creek Vista · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Hague: 1.5 mi
- Pyramid Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Twin Peaks: 4.1 mi
- Prairieview Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Black Butte: 6.2 mi
- South Robinson Spring: 13.7 mi
- Lower Cottonwood Spring: 13.9 mi
- Blind Sheep Spring: 14.1 mi
- Upper Cottonwood Spring: 14.3 mi
- North Robinson Spring: 14.5 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 6.5 mi
- Impasse Falls: 11.4 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 16.1 mi
- Calamity Falls: 16.2 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 22.9 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 10.8 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 24.0 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 13.4 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 18.7 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 19.3 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 20.1 mi
- Willow Park: 21.2 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 21.5 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Mount Wood. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | S 178° | 3,904 m | 7.7 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | S 181° | 3,882 m | 7.4 mi |
| Castle Mountain | SE 144° | 3,842 m | 15.1 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | S 172° | 3,791 m | 7.5 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | SSE 148° | 3,785 m | 14.4 mi |
| Mount Peal | SSE 166° | 3,778 m | 8.1 mi |
| Glacier Peak | SSW 192° | 3,762 m | 8.8 mi |
| Mount Hague | SW 231° | 3,750 m | 1.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:53 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:26 | 21:11 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:56 | 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 | 27 | 26 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 62 | 54 | 42 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mystic Lake, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 805895 — Mount Wood, Stillwater County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357958118
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