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Big Sky is located along the western edge of Gallatin County and eastern edge of Madison County approximately midway between West Yellowstone and Bozeman on U.S. Highway 191 and 30 miles (48 km) from the northwestern border of Yellowstone National Park.
Big Timber is a city in, and the county seat of, Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States. [4] The population was 1,650 at the 2020 census. [5]Big Timber takes its name from Big Timber Creek, which was named by William Clark because of the large cottonwood trees. [6]
Montana (/ m ɒ n ˈ t æ n ə / ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [7] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.
Chet Huntley, founder of Big Sky Resort. The resort was founded by Montana native Chet Huntley, the retired co-anchorman of The Huntley–Brinkley Report of NBC News. [4] [5] Big Sky opened in December 1973, with its main base area at an elevation of 7,510 ft (2,290 m) above sea level, on the eastern face of the 11,167-foot (3,404 m) Lone Mountain, the sixty-seventh highest mountain in Montana ...
Bigfork is located in south-central Flathead County at the north end of Flathead Lake. The western edge of the CDP is the Flathead River , the primary inflow of the lake. The Swan River flows into Flathead Lake from the east, entering the lake at the center of town.
Big Horn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,124. [1] The county seat is Hardin. [2] The county, like the river and the mountain range, is named after the bighorn sheep in the Rocky Mountains. [3] The county was founded in 1913. [4] It is located on the southern boundary of the ...
Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort on Big Mountain in northwestern Montana. It is west of Glacier National Park in the Flathead National Forest, four miles (6 km) from the town of Whitefish, sixteen miles (26 km) west of Columbia Falls, [1] and 21 miles (34 km) north of Kalispell.
The Big Snowy Mountains (Gros Ventre: níichʔibííkʔa, lit. 'it is never summer' [ 1 ] ) are a small mountain range south of Lewistown in Fergus County, Montana . Considerably east of and isolated from the main crest of the Northern Rockies , they are one of the few points of significant elevation in the immediate area and are considered one ...