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Badlands at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 926 m long with 304 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 27° at its steepest, facing S.

27°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
926 mlength
304 mvertical
2969 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

Badlands is equator-facing: the sunniest aspect, softens earliest and suffers most in warm spells.

How to get to Badlands

Lifts that reach the top: Dakota 3 (skiing novice terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 43 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Fast Lane (intermediate)
  4. Ski Lone Wolf (easy)
  5. Ski Chet's Knob (intermediate)
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ride Swift Current 6
  8. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  9. Ski Lobo Meadows (intermediate)
  10. Ski Cow Flats (intermediate)
  11. Ride Shedhorn 4 - High Speed
  12. Ski Duck Walk (intermediate)
  13. Ski Upper Sunlight (intermediate)
  14. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  15. Ski Mule Skinner (intermediate)
  16. Ride Dakota 3
  17. Ski Badlands (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed advanced trail, Dakota Gully. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Dakota 3 (1 min), Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (4 min).

See Badlands on the 3D mapAll runs at Big Sky Resort
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.