Packer Butte
Packer Butte rises to 1,782 m in Idaho. Smoky Dome stands 3,077 m to the northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Cat Creek Summit, a peak 1.2 miles away. Oregon Trail Back Country Byway passes 13 miles off. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 43 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Elmore County, Idaho, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49059295, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,782 m
How to reach it
- 13.2 mi off the Oregon Trail Back Country Byway
66 named places within 25 miles
- Cat Creek Summit: 1.2 mi
- Summit Benchmark: 4.2 mi
- Wood Creek Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Bennett Mountain: 6.1 mi
- Coyote Benchmark: 7.2 mi
- Soldier Mountain Game Preserve: 4.3 mi
- East Side Park: 21.0 mi
- Stone Tree Park: 21.0 mi
- Legacy Park: 21.0 mi
- Carl Miller Park: 21.1 mi
- Big Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Windmill Bluff: 23.9 mi
- Mountain Home Historical Museum: 21.4 mi
- Glenns Ferry Historical Museum: 23.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Spring: 12.4 mi
- Community Wall: 21.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Packer Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoky Dome | NE 54° | 3,077 m | 24.2 mi |
| North Smoky Dome | NE 54° | 3,029 m | 24.8 mi |
| Peak 9712 | NE 41° | 2,960 m | 22.1 mi |
| Third Peak | NE 56° | 2,946 m | 24.6 mi |
| Iron Mountain | NE 39° | 2,942 m | 22.3 mi |
| Boardman Peak | NE 47° | 2,882 m | 22.7 mi |
| Trinity Mountain | NNW 347° | 2,880 m | 22.1 mi |
| Deer Mountain | NE 38° | 2,416 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:45 | 19:16 | 19:54 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 20:42 | 21:26 |
| September equinox | 07:29 | 19:03 | 19:40 |
| December solstice | 08:11 | 16:23 | 17:09 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 22 | 31 | 42 | 50 | 57 | 66 | 65 | 56 | 44 | 31 | 21 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hill City 1 W, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 388092 — Packer Butte, Elmore County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358657839
Day trips start here
- Mountain Home · 21 mi
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