Summit Mountain
Summit Mountain rises to 3,511 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the northwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Snowbank Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 8.9 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Carbon County, Montana, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49079955, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,511 m
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 11.2 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 10 mi
- Crazy Creek · 11 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 12 mi
- Rock Creek Vista · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Snowbank Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Mount Dewey: 1.6 mi
- Mount Rosebud: 2.2 mi
- Castle Rock Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Bald Knob: 3.4 mi
- Willow Park: 9.9 mi
- Rotary Park: 23.8 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 23.9 mi
- Field School Park: 24.0 mi
- Pride Park: 24.0 mi
- Impasse Falls: 2.0 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 10.4 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 10.6 mi
- Calamity Falls: 10.9 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 12.2 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
- Reef Creek: 18.9 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 20.7 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 19.6 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 20.2 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 24.0 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 11.6 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 24.1 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 11.3 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 11.9 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 13.9 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 15.7 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 21.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Summit Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | NW 320° | 3,904 m | 6.4 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | NW 319° | 3,882 m | 6.8 mi |
| Castle Mountain | E 85° | 3,842 m | 4.5 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | E 92° | 3,821 m | 6.6 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | ENE 77° | 3,803 m | 8.9 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | NNW 327° | 3,791 m | 6.1 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | E 83° | 3,785 m | 3.4 mi |
| Mount Peal | NNW 332° | 3,778 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:53 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:25 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357959001
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