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TheStreet.com - Ski in Montana's Unspoiled Beauty
01/17/2008
If the thought of standing all alone looking down at a 4,350-foot vertical drop covered in fresh powder is appealing, it's worth the trek to Big Sky, in the southwest corner of Montana.
At the center of the community is Lone Mountain, an 11,166-foot peak that anchors 5,300 acres of skiable terrain and the modest tally of about 5,500 skiers daily during the peak season: roughly one per acre. It's not unusual to be halfway down the mountain, stop, turn around, and not see another soul.
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SmarterTravel.com - Fun in the snow in Montana
01/14/2008
Big Sky and neighboring Moonlight Basin offer the "biggest skiing in America"—5,512 acres with the Big Sky Resort-Moonlight Basin Interconnect that joins the two adjacent ski areas. The terrain is guaranteed to satisfy every skier and snowboarder in your family, whether they want the steeps and deeps (like my kids); long, pristine groomers where, even on busy days, you might not see another soul (my pick); or wide, gentle runs ideal for beginners. "My son doesn't want to leave," said Los Angeles-based Sandy Itkoff, a guest at Moonlight Basin.
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Town and Country- Camping Goes Glam
12/05/2007
From Hawaii's far reaches to Montana's pasturelands, camping's gone glamorous. Hoteliers and outfitters alike have found ways to deliver fabulous "glamping" experiences — that is, true communion with nature, and outdoor adventures that don't skimp too much on creature comforts.
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Luxury Living - Big Sky Montana
06/01/2007
Moonlight Basin is one of the fastest growing areas of Big Sky, featuring a 1,900-acre ski area, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course (set to open 2009) and world-class spa facilities-set deep in the mountains bordering the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area. Properties include everything from ski-in, ski-out condos and cabins to 160-acre ranch sites adjacent to the golf course.
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Los Angeles Times Travel - Skiing the white-open Spaces of Big Sky
12/10/2006
Talk about your sugar highs. Look at all that pristine powder, which swirls in the morning air like pixie dust. Big Sky Resort and neighboring Moonlight Basin offer creamy, six-mile runs where skiers and boarders can go 20 minutes without seeing another soul — on the intermediate runs. On the expert runs, high up the hill, you can go hours.
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Forbes - Just The Ticket
10/30/2006
On the mountain's north side was Moonlight Basin, a real-estate-development-turned-ski-lodge in 2003. Like most of the other skiers and boarders on this tram, I'd been happily skiing between the two. The Big Sky-- Moonlight Basin combo offers 5,512 acres of terrain, a number that nudges 223 boastful acres ahead of Vail's 5,289 to make it the largest in America. And it's why my tram-mates were so jazzed about accessing the gnarliest in-bounds terrain this side of the Alps.
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New York Times - At Home on the Slopes
09/06/2006
Moonlight Basin has sought to preserve open space and protect wildlife corridors. Building sites in the 20-acre parcels in the Ulerys Lake and Timber Range developments are limited to two acres.
Yellowstone National Park has world-class fly-fishing on the Gallatin River (where scenes from “A River Runs Through It” were shot) and the Madison River, and there is stellar hiking in the Spanish Peaks. The full-time population of Big Sky hovers around 1,500, so certain amenities can be scarce.
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AAA Travelers Companion -Bright Lights, Big Sky
07/01/2006
Snow junkies looking to carve up what may be the biggest ski area in North America can head an hour south to the 11,166-foot summit of Lone Peak. From there, skiers can drop into two behemoth resorts—the iconic Big Sky Resort and the new Moonlight Basin—which have teamed up to offer an unprec-edented 5,300 acres, 23 lifts, and some 220 runs on one joint lift ticket.
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New York Times - One Mountain, Undivided
01/20/2006
Skiers this winter who buy the new Lone Peak Pass can make turns on an astonishing 5,300 acres of terrain across both resorts - the most you can ride in the United States without clicking out of your bindings. (The runner-up, Vail, boasts 5,289 acres.) The combined skiing isn't just wide, it's also tall: 4,350 vertical feet. In North America only Whistler/Blackcomb, British Columbia, and Snowmass, Colo., offer more top-to-bottom skiing. The arrangement harkens to those European ski networks like the Italian Dolomites or the French Trois Vallées, in which skiers move seamlessly across several different areas, and sometimes even national borders, on unified lift passes. In this nation, only Alta/Snowbird and Solitude/Brighton, all in Utah, have similar arrangements.
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