Cow Flats at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 1972 m long with 246 m of vertical, averaging 7° and 16° at its steepest, facing S.

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Cow Flats

Lifts that reach the top: Swift Current 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Explorer Gondola Upper (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 20 minutes, intermediate 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 Jay Walk (easy)
10. Ski Calamity Jane (intermediate)
11. Ski Cow Flats (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Hippy Highway, unnamed intermediate trail, Beargrass. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (1 min).

What people say

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