Crooked Falls
Crooked Falls is a waterfall in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 953 m. Comers Butte stands 1,650 m to the east-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Rainbow Falls, a waterfall 0.4 miles away. Kings Hill Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Height
- 5.79 m
How to reach it
- 19.0 mi off the Kings Hill Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Giant Springs State Park: 1.4 mi
- Heron Park: 2.4 mi
- Graybill Park: 2.8 mi
- Pinski Park: 2.9 mi
- Black Eagle Memorial Island: 3.1 mi
- Indian Butte: 3.2 mi
- Smelter Hill: 3.5 mi
- Hill Fifty-seven: 6.5 mi
- Gobbler Knob: 9.2 mi
- Red Butte: 12.2 mi
- Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center: 1.9 mi
- Malmstrom Museum: 2.1 mi
- Cascade County Historical Society Museum: 4.5 mi
- Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art: 4.5 mi
- C. M. Russell Museum: 4.5 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 0.4 mi
- Black Eagle Falls: 3.3 mi
- Big Falls: 4.1 mi
- Rainbow Dam: 0.4 mi
- Black Eagle Dam: 3.3 mi
- Electric City Speedway: 4.1 mi
- Giant Springs: 1.6 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 7.9 mi
- Newman Spring: 13.8 mi
- Kid Russel & Monte: 5.4 mi
- Kid Russell and Monte Statue: 5.9 mi
- Lewis and Clark Statue: 6.0 mi
- Montana Veterans Memorial: 3.3 mi
- First Peoples Buffalo Jump SP: 15.8 mi
- West Side Orchard Garden: 7.2 mi
- Carter: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Crooked Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comers Butte | ESE 112° | 1,650 m | 24.7 mi |
| Gossack Mountain | E 90° | 1,578 m | 23.3 mi |
| Harris Mountain | E 91° | 1,544 m | 21.6 mi |
| Belt Butte | SE 126° | 1,415 m | 18.1 mi |
| Creamery Hill | S 173° | 1,341 m | 20.2 mi |
| Blankenbaker Hill | SSE 163° | 1,322 m | 19.6 mi |
| Mahoney Hill | SSE 162° | 1,308 m | 18.7 mi |
| Forest Hill | SSE 165° | 1,287 m | 18.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 18:57 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 20:38 | 21:27 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 08:11 | 15:44 | 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 | 27 | 29 | 37 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 70 | 69 | 59 | 48 | 36 | 28 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Great Falls 16st, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 5,942 | 6,112 | 6,418 | 7,214 | 10,740 | 13,057 | 8,177 | 5,710 | 5,373 | 5,496 | 5,784 | 5,776 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Missouri River near Great Falls MT, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/1752274232
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