Big Sky, Montana
Golfweek’s Best 2023: Top 200 Residential Golf Courses in the U.S.
Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2023 list of top residential golf courses in the United States.
The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final, cumulative rating. Then each course is ranked against other courses in the region.
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VIEW FULL ARTICLE ON GOLFWEEKThe 10 best mountain golf destinations in North America
Enjoy low humidity and soaring drives at these elevated destinations from Vermont to California. Big Sky, Montana: Best mountain golf courses: The Club at Spanish Peaks, Big Sky Resort Golf Course, Reserve at Moonlight Basin. Comment: Avid skiers/travelers say Big Sky – while booming – still has that small-town mountain feel like Aspen, Colo., or Jackson Hole 25 years […]
What’s in a Name? The Lone Peak Couloirs
An iconic tram, a rugged Rocky Mountain summit, and a famously hairball ski line. Nope, not Jackson Hole. We’re talking Big Sky Resort, where the north and east faces of Lone Mountain (the official name) pack some of the most extreme lift-accessed terrain in North America. Here, the resort’s pièce de résistance—Big Couloir—drops more than […]
Big Sky, Big Land.
A brief history of Big Sky from the canyon to the peak. …the ski area came first and the development followed. At destinations like Telluride and Breckenridge, ski mountains sprung up around nineteenth century mining towns with colorful histories and main streets lined with Victorian storefronts. Big Sky evolved differently. The vision for the resort […]