Montage Big Sky To Open In Montana

Montana’s Big Sky Resort is a skier’s dream, with 5,800 acres of world-class terrain in a landscape that is rugged, challenging, and undeniably beautiful. While Big Sky has all the amenities that one associates with a great ski resort, including an increasingly bustling village, it has never had an over-the-top luxury hotel property. Sure, the fabled Yellowstone Club lies next door, but it’s a billionaire residential club with owners such as Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Justin Timberlake, not a hotel.

Big Sky’s luxury lodging landscape will radically change later this year when it gets its first big league hotel, Montage Big Sky. Set within the resort’s 3,530-acre Spanish Peaks enclave, the$400 million resort will feature 150 guestrooms and suites and 39 Montage Residences. Resort amenities include a locally inspired restaurant, lobby bar, and lounge, market, outdoor grill, gastropub, and recreation room with a bowling alley, indoor lap pool, family swimming pool, fitness center, signature Spa Montage, ski lockers, and skier services, and 12,870 square feet of meeting and event space. It also includes Paintbox, Montage’s immersive children’s program.  The 11,000 square foot Spa Montage will have 10 treatment rooms, two couple’s treatment rooms, a salon, and an indoor lap pool.

The property is being designed by Hart Howerton, Brayton Hughes, and EDG of San Francisco, the firm behind such projects as Four Seasons Hotel Tunis, The Village at Yellowstone Club, and Inn at the Presidio. Regional wood and stone will be used, with a palette drawn from the natural surroundings. This is only the second Montage resort to be built in a ski area, the first one being Montage Deer Valley in Utah.

Montage Big Sky will have ski-in/ski-out access to Big Sky Resort, the second-largest ski resort in the United States (it was narrowly edged out from the top spot a few years ago by Park City Mountain Resort in Utah). Guests will have access to the resort’s 18-hole Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course, which is nearby. Set at 7,000 feet, the course has dramatic views of the Spanish Peaks and the Gallatin Range. The new resort property is less than an hour’s drive from Bozeman as well as from the gates of Yellowstone National Park. Big Sky may have a stellar reputation among skiers and riders, but it’s also a prime area for other types of outdoor recreation. It has world-renowned fly-fishing, a seemingly endless number of hiking and mountain biking trails, as well as some of the best Nordic skiing and snowshoeing trails in the West.

Montage’s 39 residences will have flexible layouts and range from two to six-bedroom units, from 2,300 to 8,100 square feet. The Residences will offer custom cabinets, stone details, and high-end appliances. Owners will also have access to Montage’s optional rental program and will have an exclusive opportunity to become members of the Spanish Peaks Mountain Club.

All Montage owners have access to special privileges and benefits within the Montage Hotels & Resorts portfolio, which includes Montage properties in Deer Valley, Kapalua Bay on Maui, Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, and their California properties in Beverly Hills and Laguna Beach.

Montage Big Sky is being developed by Lone Mountain Land Company, a subsidiary of Cross Harbor Capital Partners, a Boston, Ma.-based commercial real estate investment and asset management firm. Lone Mountain Land Company is behind such Big Sky developments as Moonlight Basin, Spanish Peaks Mountain Club, and the new Wilson Hotel in Big Sky’s Town Center. Cross Harbor is the principal owner, with its investor partners, of the Yellowstone Club, Spanish Peaks, and Moonlight Basin. Montage Big Sky is expected to open in November 2021.