Pine Butte
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. 70 named places lie within 25 miles, 57 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,210 m
How to reach it
- 5.2 mi off the Snowy Range Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
70 named places within 25 miles
- Windy Hill: 2.6 mi
- Gap Point: 3.6 mi
- Medicine Bow Peak: 4.2 mi
- Browns Peak: 4.4 mi
- Gold Hill: 4.6 mi
- Billie Class Stamp Mill: 4.6 mi
- Fire Lookout: 4.7 mi
- United Airlines Flight 409 Memorial Plaque: 5.6 mi
- Chimney Park: 10.0 mi
- Elk Mountain Centennial Park: 18.9 mi
- Veterans Island Park: 23.7 mi
- Libby Lake Picnic Site: 5.0 mi
- Mirror Lake Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Elk Mountain Museum: 19.1 mi
- Saratoga Museum: 23.9 mi
- Sederlin Slide: 9.3 mi
- Wick Brothers / Beaumee Wildlife Habitat Management Area: 14.3 mi
- Wagonhound Rest Area: 15.2 mi
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.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine Bow Peak | SSE 158° | 3,639 m | 4.2 mi |
| Gap Point | SE 140° | 3,585 m | 3.6 mi |
| Browns Peak | SE 131° | 3,567 m | 4.4 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | SSE 152° | 3,472 m | 4.7 mi |
| Rock Creek Knoll | E 98° | 3,391 m | 5.7 mi |
| Elk Mountain | NNW 328° | 3,390 m | 17.6 mi |
| Silver Benchmark | S 182° | 3,318 m | 6.7 mi |
| Kennaday Peak | WNW 286° | 3,290 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:01 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:55 | 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 | 23 | 24 | 31 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 62 | 60 | 53 | 42 | 30 | 23 |
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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