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Pine Butte

Pine Butte, seen from above at true elevation

Pine Butte rises to 3,210 m in Wyoming. Medicine Bow Peak stands 3,639 m to the south-southeast, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Windy Hill, a peak 2.6 miles away. Snowy Range Scenic Byway passes 5.2 miles off. 74 named places lie within 25 miles, 60 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
3210 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.41580, -106.34780

Overlooks nearby

74 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 60
Historic sites: 3
Parks: 3
  • Chimney Park: 10.0 mi
  • Elk Mountain Centennial Park: 18.9 mi
  • Veterans Island Park: 23.7 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Nature reserves: 2
  • Wick Brothers / Beaumee Wildlife Habitat Management Area: 14.3 mi
  • Wick Brothers / Beaumee Wildlife Habitat Management Area: 16.5 mi
Museums: 2
  • Elk Mountain Museum: 19.1 mi
  • Saratoga Museum: 23.9 mi
Cliffs: 1
Rest areas: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pine Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Medicine Bow PeakSSE 158°3,639 m4.2 mi
Gap PointSE 140°3,585 m3.6 mi
Browns PeakSE 131°3,567 m4.4 mi
Sugarloaf MountainSSE 152°3,472 m4.7 mi
Rock Creek KnollE 98°3,391 m5.7 mi
Elk MountainNNW 328°3,390 m17.6 mi
Silver BenchmarkS 182°3,318 m6.7 mi
Kennaday PeakWNW 286°3,290 m9.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4119:18
June solstice05:3320:0120:43
September equinox06:5418:2819:04
December solstice07:2915:5516:40

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232431374656626053423023

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centennial 1NE, 13 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1602147 — Pine Butte, Carbon County, Wyoming.

OpenStreetMap element node/356506604

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