Silver Run Peak
Silver Run Peak rises to 3,803 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Lockhart, a peak 2.2 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 8.0 miles off.
The story
Silver Run Peak (12,547 feet (3,824 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains, the sixth tallest in Montana, and is located in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness of Custer National Forest. Silver Run Peak is the high point of the expansive Silver Run Plateau, a high-altitude plateau in the eastern Beartooth Mountains.
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Wikidata Q28056263, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3803 m
How to reach it
- 8.0 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 15.8 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 9 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 9 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 14 mi
- Falls · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Lockhart: 2.2 mi
- Whitetail Peak: 3.0 mi
- Grass Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Sundance Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Rotary Park: 15.0 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 15.1 mi
- Field School Park: 15.1 mi
- Pride Park: 15.2 mi
- Finn Park: 15.2 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 2.6 mi
- Calamity Falls: 3.0 mi
- Impasse Falls: 9.6 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 13.0 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 16.6 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 11.5 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 20.5 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 15.3 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 20.4 mi
- Corner Spring: 20.3 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 20.4 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 8.6 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 12.8 mi
- Reef Creek: 19.1 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 20.6 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 22.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.6 miles of Silver Run Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WNW 283° | 3,903.5 m | 13.1 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | WNW 284° | 3,882 m | 13.5 mi |
| Castle Mountain | WSW 250° | 3,842 m | 4.4 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | SW 223° | 3,821 m | 3.0 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | WNW 285° | 3,791 m | 12.4 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | WSW 253° | 3,785 m | 5.5 mi |
| Mount Peal | WNW 284° | 3,778 m | 11.4 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | SSW 195° | 3,763 m | 4.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:52 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:24 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 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, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 790531 — Silver Run Peak, Carbon County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357939159
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