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SA Road at Big Sky Resort

Easy · 1112 m long with 136 m of vertical, averaging 7° and 11° at its steepest, facing N.

11°steepest 50 m
average pitch
1112 mlength
136 mvertical
2566 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

SA Road is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to SA Road

Lifts that reach the top: Iron Horse 4 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Madison 8 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Explorer Gondola Upper (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Swift Current 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Powder Seeker 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 4 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Fast Lane (intermediate)
  4. Ski SA Road (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Powder River, Pony Express, Blue Moon. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Iron Horse 4 (1 min), Pony Express 3 (2 min), Cascade 3 (5 min).

See SA Road 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.