Big Sky, Montana

From Mauritius To Montana, Forbes Travel Guide’s 2024 Star Award Winners
The Only Five-Star Hotel Brand
Montage Big Sky, an alpine ski retreat in Southwestern Montana that opened in 2021, picked up its inaugural top rating. The win marked a Five-Star sweep for Montage Hotels & Resorts across its seven properties, giving it the title of the world’s only all-Five-Star hotel brand. The Montage collection spans from Bluffton, South Carolina, to Los Cabos with a strong presence on the West Coast with properties in Sonoma, Laguna Beach and Park City, Utah.
The U.S.-based company is a longtime luxury hospitality purveyor—it celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023 and boasts the longest-running Five-Star spa. California’s Spa Montage Laguna Beach was the first spa to earn the Five-Star distinction in 2005 and has maintained the rating ever since.
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Knowing the Mountain by Heart
Jacob Smith is legally blind. That hasn’t stopped this teenager from skiing the toughest lines at Big Sky. In the summer of 2014, when Jacob Smith was eight years old, he started bumping into furniture and having trouble reading. His parents figured he needed glasses. Then his eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly.“In less than two […]

Big Sky Brings the Big Winter Fun
For uncrowded slopes, laid-back mountaintop meals, and a little Wild West-inspired shopping, head to Montana. Montana’s Big Sky Resort has long lured devoted skiers and riders to its rolling groomers, extensive glades, and hard-core chutes, but it still exudes a refreshing, under-the-radar appeal. Plenty of wide-open spaces await: From Mountain Village to the top of […]

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January, February, and March offer beautiful wintery scenes and a distinct lack of other people. Something special happens in Yellowstone in the winter. The national park’s already impressive landscape transforms into a serene wonderland—the kind most of us usually only see on the side of a biscuit tin or as a screensaver. The mundane becomes magical […]