travel42 Hotel Review: Lone Mountain Ranch

Lone Mountain Ranch travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This exceptional, well-seasoned dude ranch sits on the outskirts of Big Sky's sleepy center and its notable ski resort, an hour north of the West Yellowstone Park entrance, midway between Billings and Idaho Falls—that is to say a good half-day's drive from the nearest Starbucks.

However, this castaway colony of log cabins isn't just a backcountry bolthole for crazed skiers, fisherman, rafters and hikers. These days the action includes an immense roster of...