Cherry Spring
Cherry Spring is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,305 m. Bare Mountain stands 3,017 m to the west-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Chappel Spring, a spring 2.3 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 15 miles off. 76 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1305 m
How to reach it
- 15.1 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Rock Creek Vista · 28 mi
- Vista Point Observation Site · 28 mi
76 named places within 25 miles
- Stormitt Butte: 4.3 mi
- Blanchard Butte: 4.3 mi
- Church Hill: 5.8 mi
- The Big Slide: 6.5 mi
- Round Butte: 9.2 mi
- Roberts Community Park: 4.8 mi
- Pryor Mountains Historical Marker: 7.5 mi
- Fromberg City Park: 8.0 mi
- Bridger Elementary School Park: 8.6 mi
- Cooney Reservoir State Park: 8.8 mi
- Chappel Spring: 2.3 mi
- Poison Spring: 10.0 mi
- Bachelder Spring: 11.8 mi
- Big Bluewater Spring: 13.4 mi
- Bluewater Spring: 13.9 mi
- Gramps Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 17.5 mi
- Countrymans Bluff: 18.8 mi
- Firemans Point: 20.8 mi
- Bensons Bluff: 22.6 mi
- Clarks Fork Valley Museum: 8.1 mi
- Carbon County Museum: 14.9 mi
- Museum of the Beartooths: 21.1 mi
- Lewis and Clark on the Yellowstone: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cherry Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bare Mountain | WSW 240° | 3,017 m | 23.2 mi |
| Wapiti Mountain | SW 218° | 2,868 m | 22.4 mi |
| Nichols Peak | SW 230° | 2,859 m | 19.3 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | SW 228° | 2,851 m | 19.0 mi |
| Maurice Mount | SSW 207° | 2,821 m | 20.5 mi |
| Tolman Point | SW 220° | 2,603 m | 24.8 mi |
| Towne Point | SW 216° | 2,429 m | 19.3 mi |
| Burnt Mountain | WSW 241° | 2,393 m | 21.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:50 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:23 | 21:09 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:37 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 15:47 | 16:37 |
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 | 66 | 57 | 44 | 32 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Joliet, 8 mi away.
- great mullein3 obs
- Long-billed Curlew1 obs
- Brown Trout1 obs
- Eastern Boxelder Bug1 obs
- red osier dogwood1 obs
- Yellow Salsify1 obs
- red raspberry1 obs
- bittersweet nightshade1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/4087232194
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