Ranch elevation is 6,700 feet.

Lone Mountain's elevation is 11,166 feet.

The Ranch is located next to the Spanish Peaks, in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness area.

Lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, Engleman spruce, Sub-Alpine fir, and Aspen are the five main tree varieties at the Ranch.

Elk, moose, mule deer, whitetail deer, black bears, mountain sheep, mountain goats, bobcat, coyotes and an occasional cougar are the large mammal varieties most often found in the area.

The creek that flows through the Ranch is the North Fork of the Gallatin River's West Fork.

Lewis and Clark passed through this area in the first decade of the 1800s and named the Gallatin River after the Secretary of the Treasury, who had helped arrange to pay for the expedition.

The Gallatin River flows north from Yellowstone National Park and meets the Madison and Jefferson Rivers at Three Forks, Montana to form the Missouri River. The Jefferson was named after the third President of the United States who commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Madison was named for then Secretary of State James Madison.

The northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park is only 20 miles south of the Ranch. The West entrance to the park is 30 miles further south at West Yellowstone, MT.

Yellowstone became the world's first national park in 1872. Montana didn't become a state until 1889.

Much of Yellowstone is a giant caldera (volcanic crater), 30 miles wide by 45 miles long. The volcanic eruption that created the caldera is one of the largest known.


Area Recreation

A wide variety of activities are available around the Big Sky area, from golfing, tennis, rock climbing, mountain biking and rafting in the summer to snowmobiling, dogsledding, and downhill skiing on the Lone Peak Tram in the winter season.