Lower Cottonwood Spring
Lower Cottonwood Spring is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,731 m. Mount Wood stands 3,846 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Upper Cottonwood Spring, a spring 0.4 miles away. Beartooth Highway passes 31 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1731 m
How to reach it
- 31.1 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Limestone Butte: 2.9 mi
- Beehive Rock: 5.3 mi
- Hicks Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Arch Rock: 6.0 mi
- Mount Waldstein: 6.0 mi
- Upper Cottonwood Spring: 0.4 mi
- South Robinson Spring: 0.8 mi
- North Robinson Spring: 1.0 mi
- Ekwortzel Spring: 1.3 mi
- Lundy Spring: 1.4 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 3.3 mi
- The Greycliffs: 18.1 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 8.9 mi
- Natural Bridge Waterfall: 19.2 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 19.1 mi
- Natural Bridge State Park: 19.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Lower Cottonwood Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wood | S 178° | 3,846 m | 13.9 mi |
| Mount Hague | S 182° | 3,750 m | 14.8 mi |
| Froze-to-Death Mountain | S 171° | 3,583 m | 19.9 mi |
| Twin Peaks | SSW 192° | 3,559 m | 15.8 mi |
| Little Park Mountain | SSW 193° | 3,499 m | 19.7 mi |
| Mount Hole-in-the-Wall | SSE 166° | 3,490 m | 20.9 mi |
| Big Mountain | S 190° | 3,462 m | 20.9 mi |
| Mount Douglas | SW 233° | 3,439 m | 19.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:53 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 20:27 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 15:50 | 16:39 |
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 | 29 | 29 | 36 | 42 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 65 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 28 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NYE #2, 3 mi away.
- western poison ivy1 obs
- Bogbean1 obs
- Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee1 obs
- Arrowhead Blue1 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/4020712732
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