Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain rises to 3,475 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Beartooth Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 6.5 miles off.
The story
Thunder Mountain is an 11,441-foot (3,487-metre) summit in Carbon County, Montana, United States.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q49083597, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3475 m
How to reach it
- 6.5 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 13.0 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 7 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 7 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 11 mi
- Falls · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Beartooth Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Mount Rearguard: 2.0 mi
- Mount Lockhart: 2.1 mi
- Whitetail Peak: 2.2 mi
- Spirit Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Willow Park: 15.2 mi
- Rotary Park: 16.3 mi
- Swimming Pool Park: 16.5 mi
- Finn Park: 16.5 mi
- Field School Park: 16.6 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 5.8 mi
- Calamity Falls: 6.3 mi
- Beartooth Falls: 9.8 mi
- Impasse Falls: 9.9 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 14.2 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 13.4 mi
- Cathedral Cliffs: 17.2 mi
- Sunlight Falls: 22.0 mi
- Reef Creek: 15.8 mi
- Sunlight Creek Picnic Site: 22.1 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 16.8 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 19.3 mi
- Three Corner Spring: 19.7 mi
- Corner Spring: 19.8 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 7.2 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 9.7 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 19.4 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 21.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Thunder Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WNW 296° | 3,903.5 m | 14.1 mi |
| Castle Mountain | WNW 294° | 3,842 m | 4.4 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | WNW 300° | 3,821 m | 2.2 mi |
| Silver Run Peak | N 3° | 3,803 m | 3.3 mi |
| Tempest Mountain | WNW 299° | 3,791 m | 13.5 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | WNW 289° | 3,785 m | 5.4 mi |
| Mount Peal | WNW 299° | 3,778 m | 12.5 mi |
| Beartooth Mountain | SW 230° | 3,763 m | 1.3 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 | 07:54 | 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, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357940066
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