Montana has some amazing open spaces and offers plenty of opportunity for Overlanding and getting lost on a forest road. Or, You could park up at Big Sky Ski Area for a few days and enjoy some flush toilets and mountain activities. We were told by an employee at Big Sky Ski Area that we could camp up to four days in the parking lot. So we did a nice parking lot shuffle for a few days and found some nice things to do to keep us entertained.
Beehive Basin
Beehive Basin is a 7.1 Mile Moderately Trafficked Out and Back through some pretty cool terrain and has a really cool alpine lake at the end of the trail. It has some pretty sweet views up here as well. It’s one of the more busy trails in the area so hit the trail early to ensure a parking spot.
Mountain to Meadow Mountain Biking
From your campsite in the parking lot, you will be able to ride your bike over to the lifts. However, there’s no need to buy a lift ticket to ride Big Sky Resort, thanks to the town shuttle that drives you back to the top after a screamer of a run down some premier downhill. You’ll start by climbing next to the Ramcharger lift. You’ll climb up for about 1.5 miles before you start a long flowy descent with berms and jumps all the way down to the town of Big Sky. From here, you'll want to head to Fire Pit Park, where you can catch the free mountain shuttle back up to the Ski Area Base where you started. You can lap this a few times since the uphill is fairly easy. Make sure to grab a shuttle schedule or check it out here!
Lake Levinsky
On your down days you can bring your van a stone’s throw away from your previous parking lot down to Lake Levinsky for a relaxing day by the lake. If you have a SUP this is a good place to take it out there is also portable toilets at the lake.
