It is home to the famous ‘Big Couloir’, one of the most well-known expert lines in the entirety of the USA – it’s an extremely narrow, sharply pitched chute (40 degrees) with rocks on either side. The terrain from the top of the Lone Peak Tram at Lone Peak Mountain (11,150) is steep, technical and adrenaline inducing. Over 2,400 acres are beginner and intermediate with plenty of cruisers and gentle beginner areas.īut it is the expert terrain that brings a lot of people here. There is an enormous variety of terrain at Big Sky, including 5 bowls and an access gate to the back country off of Lone Mountain, to keep seasonal workers going for several seasons over on your breaks and days off. Current and new employees from Moonlight were psyched to receive a season pass to all the combined terrain of these two resorts. Big Sky was recently combined with Moonlight Basin (now Big Sky’s northern exposure) which took Big Sky to its current massive size. In all of North America, only Whistler has more skiable terrain. ]īig Sky is the largest ski resort in the United States with 5,750 acres of skiable terrain, a 4,350 vertical drop and it receives and a yearly average of 400” (10m) of powder snow. Other staff working in the area work for Yellowstone Club, Lone Mountain Ranch, Property Management companies, restaurants and real estate companies, to name a few. Staff at the mountain come from all over the United States.
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It’s free to all and food and beverage vendors line the grassy area where people bring camp chairs or blankets.ĥ0 minutes away, Bozeman is a college town home to Montana State University and is a much livelier and cheaper option for those who are able to get a lift in each day to work or have a car. In the summer, every Wednesday is the farmer’s market and Thursday is the Music in Mountains with amazing bands brought in through the Arts Council of Big Sky. There is usually live music somewhere in town or up at the resort during the winter and it’s fun to have so many options to meet up with people. As the most popular resort in Montana, the infrastructure and amenities are more developed – however, Big Sky is still less glitzy than the super upmarket resorts in Utah and Colorado like Vail, Deer Valley and Aspen. The resort is very family friendly and pretty laid-back, there are a good crew of powder loving locals and everything is pretty centrally located right in the base area.
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The resort village is a great tight-knit mountain village with wonderful restaurants/bars, a small movie theater, unique shops and a full service space. Bozeman has flights from several major airports including Denver and L.A. To get there, the Skyline Bus runs from Bozeman to Big Sky, as well as around the town of Big Sky to Big Sky Resort. It is in the Madison Mountain Range which is part of the Rocky Mountains.
40,000) and the entrance to West Yellowstone National Park. To work a season at Big Sky is to work and ride a combination of huge terrain and sparse crowds which is essentially unmatched by any resort in North America.īig Sky Resort is 7 miles from Big Sky’s Town Centre and about 50 minutes from Bozeman (pop. Big Sky Resort is Montana’s best known and biggest resort, indeed the biggest resort in the US, and it is appropriate that it takes on Montana’s epithet.
Sparse population, rugged mountains and wide open meadows have earned Montana, USA, the moniker ‘big sky’.
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