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Dakota Gully at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 668 m long with 288 m of vertical, averaging 23° and 30° at its steepest, facing S.

30°steepest 50 m
23°average pitch
668 mlength
288 mvertical
2953 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Dakota Gully

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

From the base area (about 37 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Lazy Jack (easy)
  4. Ride Headwaters 2
  5. Ski unnamed trail
  6. Ski Highway (advanced)
  7. Ski White Wing (easy)
  8. Ski Lois Lane (easy)
  9. Ride Explorer Gondola Upper
  10. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  11. Ride Lone Peak Tram
  12. Ski Yeti Traverse (advanced)
  13. Ski Liberty Bowl (advanced)
  14. Ski Bavarian Forest (advanced)
  15. Ski Mule Skinner (intermediate)
  16. Ride Dakota 3
  17. Ski Badlands (advanced)
  18. Ski Dakota Gully (advanced)

Where it ends

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

See Dakota Gully 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.