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Big Sky

⛰️ 2072–3403 m (1331 m vertical) · 🎟️ $299 day pass (≈ €275) · 📅 Nov 26 to Apr 19

🧳 Plan a trip here 🛏️ Beds near the lifts ⏱️ Lift queues 🗺️ Piste map

7.2

Snowlist score

Ratings

❄️ Snow

5.1

⛰️ Terrain

7.4

🚠 Lifts

6.4

⏱️ Queues

7.4

💸 Value

2.7

🍻 Après

0.0

✈️ Access

8.3

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude	2072–3403 m
Vertical drop	1,331 m
Pistes advertised	5,850 acres
Pistes mapped on OSM	341.1 km
Lifts (mapped near village)	51 · 49% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass	$299
Passes	Ikon
Avg snowfall (mid)	2.9 m / season
Nearest airport	BZN · 60 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h

0 cm

Fresh 72 h

2 cm

Next 7 days

10 cm

Snow depth top (model)

0 cm

Now at 3253 m

☀️ -11°

Now at 2072 m

-4°

Gusts at top

15 km/h

Freezing level

1,600 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today

☁️

-11° / -1°

💨 33

Fri

☁️

-7° / 1°

💨 46

Sat

🌦️

1 cm

-6° / 0°

💨 29

Sun

🌨️

3 cm

-5° / -2°

💨 14

Mon

🌨️

6 cm

-11° / -5°

💨 14

Tue

☁️

-11° / -2°

💨 12

Wed

🌤️

-11° / 1°

💨 7

Thu

☁️

-9° / 1°

💨 9

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 3253 m (summit) and 2072 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 2738 m

Avg snowfall / season

2.9 m

Powder days (15 cm+)

Snowy days

Avg temp at base

-4.9°

Average snowfall by month · best: Mar

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

By season: 2022/23: 3.1 m · 1 powder days2023/24: 2.3 m · 0 powder days2024/25: 3.2 m · 0 powder days

When to go

Month	Avg snowfall	Tuesday 11:00	Saturday 11:00
Dec	37 cm	~1.2 min	~2.3 min
Jan	38 cm	~1.4 min	~4.1 min
Feb	52 cm	~1.7 min	~3.2 min
Mar	61 cm	~1.7 min	~3.4 min	SWEET SPOT

Snowfall from three past winters, waits from the queue model (average across lifts, mid-month, holidays included where they fall).

Lift queues

Closed until Nov 26. Here's a normal February Saturday at 10:00:

SIMULATION Average wait ~3 min, worst 8 min.

Weekend: locals are out

Simulate:

🚡 Lone Peak Tram

Cable car · 75-seater · 850 p/h · 1,431 m

8 minpredicted

🪑 Southern Cross

Chairlift · 3-seater · 600 p/h · 394 m

6 minpredicted

🪑 Hideaway

Chairlift · 3-seater · 600 p/h · 698 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Meadow

Chairlift · 4-seater · 300 p/h · 1,827 m · bubble

5 minpredicted

🚠 Alpine Greens

Gondola · 8-seater · 166 p/h · 387 m

5 minpredicted

🪑 Ramcharger 8 - High Speed

Chairlift · 8-seater · 3,600 p/h · 1,311 m · bubble · heated

4 minpredicted

🪑 Challenger 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,271 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Sacajawea 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,200 p/h · 782 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Pine Ridge

Chairlift · 4-seater · 490 p/h · 1,332 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Swift Current 6

Chairlift · 6-seater · 3,000 p/h · 2,503 m · bubble

4 minpredicted

🚠 Explorer Gondola Lower

Gondola · 10-seater · 2,800 p/h · 1,348 m · heated

4 minpredicted

⤴️ Bear Back Poma

Button lift · 258 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Pony Express 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 916 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Iron Horse 4

Chairlift · 4-seater · 939 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Lone Moose Triple

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,202 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Jayhawk

Chairlift · 3-seater · 779 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Mountain

Chairlift · 2-seater · 1,000 p/h · 396 m

4 minpredicted

🪑 Little Thunder 2

Chairlift · 2-seater · 282 m

3 minpredicted

⤴️ Fandango

Button lift · 555 m

3 minpredicted

⤴️ Andesite Point

Button lift · 116 m

3 minpredicted

⤴️ Pull-Up

Button lift · 103 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Andesite Ridge

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,583 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 River Crossing

Chairlift · 2-seater · 179 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Derringer 4

Chairlift · 4-seater · 713 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Cascade 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 992 m

3 minpredicted

🚠 Explorer Gondola Upper

Gondola · 10-seater · 2,800 p/h · 1,206 m · heated

3 minpredicted

🪑 Lone Tree 4

Chairlift · 4-seater · 472 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Shedhorn 4 - High Speed

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,411 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Madison 8

Chairlift · 8-seater · 2,800 p/h · 2,599 m · bubble · heated

3 minpredicted

🚠 One and Only

Gondola · 8-seater · 1,229 m

3 minpredicted

🚞 Hilltrac

Funicular · 66 m

3 minpredicted

🚠 Eglise Gondola Stage 2

Gondola · 8-seater · 2,000 p/h · 1,909 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 Little Dipper Triple

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,785 p/h · 790 m

3 minpredicted

🪑 White Otter 2

Chairlift · 2-seater · 746 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Powder Seeker 6

Chairlift · 6-seater · 1,800 p/h · 805 m · bubble · heated

2 minpredicted

🪑 Southern Comfort

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,800 p/h · 1,694 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Stagecoach

Chairlift · 2-seater · 653 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Headwaters 2

Chairlift · 2-seater · 375 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ Andesite Point

Button lift · 218 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Highlands

Chairlift · 3-seater · 1,138 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Lewis and Clark 4 - High Speed

Chairlift · 4-seater · 1,259 m · bubble

2 minpredicted

🪑 Cabin 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 496 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ Homer

Button lift · 425 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 American Spirit

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,000 p/h · 1,638 m · bubble

2 minpredicted

🪑 Lodge (High-Speed Bubble Quad)

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,000 p/h · 2,907 m · bubble

2 minpredicted

🚠 Eglise Gondola Stage 1

Gondola · 8-seater · 2,000 p/h · 474 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Thunder Wolf

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,400 p/h · 1,699 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ Cow Flats

Button lift · 277 m

2 minpredicted

⤴️ Tweener

Button lift · 180 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Dakota 3

Chairlift · 3-seater · 955 m

2 minpredicted

🪑 Lake

Chairlift · 4-seater · 2,000 p/h · 2,060 m · bubble

2 minpredicted

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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16h

Mon 15

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Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.

How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

Pistes (OpenSnowMap) Lifts by queue Hotels Bars 3D· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 3 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

9.0

Huntley Lodge

Hotel 🚶 ~1 min to Explorer Gondola Lower ⛷️ piste 84 m

Book

8.9

Shoshone Condominium Hotel

Hotel 🚶 ~2 min to Explorer Gondola Lower ⛷️ piste 133 m

Book

3.9

Das Moose Haus

Apartments 🚶 ~11 min to Pony Express 3 ⛷️ piste 347 m

Book

Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

Pistes

Easy (blue / green)	85.9 km · 25%
Intermediate (red / blue)	138.8 km · 41%
Advanced (black)	93.8 km · 28%
Expert	22.5 km · 7%

Longest named runs

Skittles Road	5.1 km
Horseshoe	4.3 km
Tooth Fairy	4.1 km
Backtrack	4.0 km
Watson's Revenge	3.3 km
Yellow Hammer	3.0 km
Pacifier	3.0 km
Meriwether	3.0 km

Après & food

Bars & pubs

Clubs

Restaurants

Mountain huts

🍸 Alpenglow

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: BZN, about 60 min away by road. Directions · Flights

Big Sky Resort, known colloquially as Big Sky, is a ski resort within Big Sky, Montana. It is about 50 mi from Bozeman. The resort takes its name from Montana's nickname as the "Big Sky Country". Wikipedia