Tongue Butte
Tongue Butte rises to 2,431 m in Wyoming. Penrose Peak stands 3,781 m to the south-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Elephant Foot, a peak 0.8 miles away. Bighorn Scenic Byway passes 3.3 miles off. 121 named places lie within 25 miles, 57 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,431 m
How to reach it
- 3.3 mi off the Bighorn Scenic Byway
- 11.0 mi off the Medicine Wheel Passage
- 27.2 mi off the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Fallen City Scenic Viewpoint · 4 mi
- Beaver Creek Overlook · 24 mi
- Bald Mountain Overlook · 27 mi
121 named places within 25 miles
- Elephant Foot: 0.8 mi
- Big Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Horseshoe Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Little Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Fallen City: 3.6 mi
- Walker Prairie: 5.3 mi
- Deer Park: 5.8 mi
- Sheridan County Big Game Winter Range: 7.3 mi
- Scott Bicentennial Park: 8.3 mi
- Shutts Flats: 8.5 mi
- Red Grade Spring: 14.0 mi
- Three Springs: 16.0 mi
- Bull Springs: 19.2 mi
- Wheddon Spring: 19.4 mi
- Bard Spring: 20.7 mi
- Pine Island Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Twin Lakes Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Burgess Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Granite Creek Picnic Area: 17.8 mi
- Weston Point: 13.0 mi
- Riley Point: 15.3 mi
- Spear Lake Cliff: 23.6 mi
- Spanish Point: 23.7 mi
- Bozeman Trail Museum: 16.0 mi
- The Brinton Museum: 16.3 mi
- Trail End State Historic Site: 16.4 mi
- Sheridan County Museum: 17.8 mi
- Black Diamond Trail Rest Area: 15.6 mi
- Wyoming information Rest Area: 18.1 mi
- Kendrick Park Elk Pasture: 16.2 mi
- Bull Elk Park Natural Area: 19.4 mi
- Shell Falls: 19.7 mi
- Wagon Box Battle Monument: 24.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tongue Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrose Peak | SSE 163° | 3,781 m | 25.0 mi |
| Shipsprow Buttress | SSE 163° | 3,670 m | 25.0 mi |
| Cross Creek Peak | SSE 167° | 3,584 m | 21.8 mi |
| Five Fingers | S 169° | 3,572 m | 24.8 mi |
| Starvation Peak | SSE 167° | 3,548 m | 24.4 mi |
| Panoram Point | S 169° | 3,536 m | 24.3 mi |
| Spear Peak | S 178° | 3,517 m | 21.3 mi |
| Elk Peak | S 187° | 3,352 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:43 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 20:14 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 15:43 | 16:32 |
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 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 42 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 67 | 57 | 45 | 32 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dayton, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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