Sheep Mountain
Sheep Mountain rises to 3,010 m in Montana. Electric Peak stands 3,341 m to the southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Sawtooth Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away.
The story
Sheep Mountain is a 10,097-foot (3,078-metre) mountain summit in Park County, Montana, United States.
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Wikidata Q49072948, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,010 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sawtooth Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Canary Bird Peak: 2.7 mi
- Shooting Star Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Big Horn Peak: 3.1 mi
- Meldrum Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Devils Slide: 10.0 mi
- Rigler Bluffs: 10.2 mi
- Dick Randall Point: 10.9 mi
- Red Cliff: 12.4 mi
- Point of Rocks: 12.4 mi
- Gallatin State Wildlife Management Area: 8.2 mi
- Gallatin Game Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Arch Park: 15.1 mi
- Cabin Creek Wildlife Management Area: 16.9 mi
- Town Center: 18.5 mi
- Orange Spring Mound: 16.8 mi
- Palette Spring: 17.0 mi
- Cupid Spring: 17.1 mi
- New Blue Spring: 17.1 mi
- Dryad Springs: 17.1 mi
- Arch Park Picnic Area: 15.1 mi
- 45th Parallel Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
- Mammoth Picnic Area: 17.0 mi
- Albright Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- Sheepeater Cliff Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
- Yellowstone Hot Springs: 10.4 mi
- Roosevelt Arch: 15.2 mi
- Yellowstone Gateway Garden: 15.3 mi
- Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces: 17.0 mi
- Osprey Falls: 19.7 mi
- Rustic Falls: 17.8 mi
- Undine Falls: 20.8 mi
- Wraith Falls: 21.8 mi
- Aldridge: 12.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.1 miles of Sheep Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Peak | SE 128° | 3,341 m | 10.4 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | E 86° | 3,189 m | 14.8 mi |
| Sage Peak | SW 226° | 3,189 m | 16.5 mi |
| Joseph Peak | SSE 149° | 3,176 m | 11.3 mi |
| Redstreak Peak | SW 219° | 3,151 m | 16.2 mi |
| Gray Peak | SSE 151° | 3,139 m | 12.2 mi |
| Bannock Peak | SSE 156° | 3,137 m | 15.7 mi |
| White Peak | SW 217° | 3,121 m | 16.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:28 | 18:58 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 20:30 | 21:15 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 15:56 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 37 | 45 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 69 | 60 | 47 | 34 | 25 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gardiner, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357957009
Day trips start here
- Gardiner · 15 mi
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