Bear Springs
Bear Springs is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 964 m. Bald Butte stands 1,559 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Wolf Creek Falls, a waterfall 4.0 miles away. Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway passes 12 miles off. 86 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 964 m
How to reach it
- 12.4 mi off the Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway
86 named places within 25 miles
- BLM: 5.8 mi
- BLM: 6.4 mi
- BLM: 6.6 mi
- State Trust: 9.8 mi
- BLM: 11.6 mi
- Twin Buttes: 5.6 mi
- Black Butte: 6.2 mi
- Seventynine Hill: 10.1 mi
- Seventytwo Hills: 11.3 mi
- The Peak: 11.5 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 8.1 mi
- Soda Spring: 11.3 mi
- Shake Spring: 12.0 mi
- Cow Camp Spring: 13.4 mi
- Osborn Spring: 14.6 mi
- Judith Landing Recreation Area: 17.7 mi
- Fort Chardon Historical Marker: 17.8 mi
- Denton City Park: 19.1 mi
- Lions Club Park: 19.2 mi
- Lions Park: 19.4 mi
- Wolf Creek Falls: 4.0 mi
- Winifred Museum: 12.3 mi
- The Wall: 17.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bear Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Butte | SE 142° | 1,559 m | 24.1 mi |
| Rocky Butte | SSE 164° | 1,476 m | 21.9 mi |
| Sheepherder Peak | ESE 116° | 1,203 m | 16.9 mi |
| Indian Graves Butte | S 182° | 1,188 m | 15.1 mi |
| Seventytwo Hills | S 176° | 1,165 m | 11.3 mi |
| Sand Rock Hill | S 187° | 1,139 m | 13.6 mi |
| Twin Buttes | SW 216° | 1,097 m | 5.6 mi |
| Woodhawk Hill | NE 51° | 1,074 m | 24.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:51 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 20:32 | 21:20 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:38 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 08:04 | 15:38 | 16:31 |
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 | 21 | 24 | 34 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 69 | 68 | 57 | 44 | 33 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Winifred, 12 mi away.
- American Badger1 obs
- common beargrass1 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/3462454933
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