Trapper Peak
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Trapper Peak rises to 3,081 m in Montana. El Capitan stands 3,025 m to the north-northwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is North Trapper Peak, a peak 0.8 miles away. Salmon River Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off.
The story
Trapper Peak is the highest point in the Bitterroot Mountains, part of the larger Bitterroot Range in western Montana. It rises over 6,000 feet (1,830 m) above the nearby Bitterroot Valley. The peak is located within the Central Bitterroot Range, a subrange of the Bitterroot Mountains and within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area of the Bitterroot National Forest. A trail to the peak climbs 3,800 feet (1,160 m) from the end of a Forest Service road.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q7835655, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3081 m
How to reach it
- 21.6 mi off the Salmon River Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- North Trapper Peak: 0.8 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 3.6 mi
- Boulder Point: 3.6 mi
- Boulder Peak: 3.7 mi
- School Point: 4.5 mi
- Tin Cup Park: 10.5 mi
- Darby Park: 10.7 mi
- Sacajewa Park: 10.8 mi
- Painted Rocks State Recreation Area: 13.1 mi
- Ross Hole Historical Marker: 15.5 mi
- Boulder Falls: 2.1 mi
- Patsy Ann Falls: 9.0 mi
- Overwich Falls: 15.9 mi
- Canyon Falls: 24.6 mi
- Elk Point: 13.7 mi
- Ohio Side: 18.8 mi
- Poverty Slide: 19.6 mi
- Darby Pioneer Memorial Museum: 10.7 mi
- Historic Forest Service Museum: 11.1 mi
- Rams Horn Medicine Tree: 10.7 mi
- Como Swimming Beach: 12.6 mi
- Blue Joint Hot Springs: 13.9 mi
- Painted Rocks State Park: 14.3 mi
- Cold Springs: 18.8 mi
- H: 24.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Trapper Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Capitan | NNW 330° | 3,025 m | 9.4 mi |
| Boulder Peak | SW 216° | 2,977 m | 3.7 mi |
| North Trapper Peak | NNE 25° | 2,969 m | 0.8 mi |
| West Como Peak | NNW 342° | 2,916 m | 8.2 mi |
| Middle Como Peak | NNW 344° | 2,904 m | 8.0 mi |
| East Como Peak | NNW 348° | 2,891 m | 8.1 mi |
| Sugarloaf Peak | N 352° | 2,888 m | 3.6 mi |
| Mount Jerusalem | WSW 240° | 2,845 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:10 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:46 | 21:32 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 18:57 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 08:17 | 16:05 | 16:56 |
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 | 27 | 30 | 37 | 43 | 52 | 58 | 66 | 64 | 56 | 45 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Darby, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 792352 — Trapper Peak, Ravalli County, Montana.
OpenStreetMap element node/357940187
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