{"type":"city","city":"Big Sky","citySlug":"big-sky-montana","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/montana/big-sky-montana","description":"The Gallatin Range doesn't negotiate. At elevations above 7,000 feet, where snowpack lingers into June and the treeline gives way to raw granite, the architecture has to mean something or it gets swallowed whole. What's remarkable about the two properties that PressBeyond features in Big Sky is that both understand this — not by submitting to rusticity, but by working with a more considered tension between refinement and the unmediated wilderness pressing against every window.\n\nMontage Big Sky, positioned within the Spanish Peaks Enclave at the base of the Spanish Peaks Mountain Club, arrives as a full resort statement — nearly 150 rooms and residences wrapped in timber, stone, and steeply pitched rooflines that read as genuinely alpine rather than theme-park vernacular. The scale is large but the material palette holds it together: hand-hewn beams, locally sourced rock, and interior finishes that move between warm modernism and lodge tradition without collapsing into either. The Moonlight Basin side of the mountain holds the One&Only, which operates at a more deliberately intimate register — around 22 cabins and suites distributed across a landscape that sees far less traffic than the main Big Sky resort corridor. One&Only Moonlight Basin leans into seclusion as a design principle, with interiors that favor textural warmth and a proportional restraint that feels tuned specifically to guests who want to disappear rather than arrive.\n\nThe distinction between the two is partly geographic — Spanish Peaks and Moonlight Basin face different aspects of the same mountain — and partly philosophical. Montage draws families and the full-service resort crowd with its spa, multiple dining rooms, and ski-in access that makes the broader Big Sky experience feel curated and contained. One&Only operates as though the mountain belongs only to its guests, which at those occupancy numbers it nearly does. For a traveler whose interest is design, the choice is between two credible answers to the same hard question: how do you build something that justifies its presence in this kind of landscape? Both properties, to their credit, take that question seriously.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"One&Only Moonlight Basin","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/montana/big-sky-montana/oneandonly-moonlight-basin","city":"Big Sky","cityHeader":"Big Sky • Moonlight Basin • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Moonlight Basin","loyaltyProgram":"","designSummary":"At nearly 8,000 feet in the Montana Rockies, where Moonlight Basin's forested flanks drop toward the Spanish Peaks, the brief for One&Only Moonlight Basin was essentially this: build something that feels inseparable from the landscape rather than imposed upon it. The architecture responds through a low-slung, heavily timbered massing clad in weathered wood and rough-cut stone, the building stepping along the ridgeline in a rhythm that mirrors the surrounding spruce and fir. From the exterior, dark structural columns and deep-set balconies push the building into shadow, so that the forest reads as the dominant visual force and the hotel as a considered extension of it.\n\nInside, that restraint gives way to a more layered warmth. Guest rooms pair blackened steel window frames with light oak plank ceilings and wide-plank floors, the corner glazing in the suites framing snow-dusted peak views that render the mountain the room's central object. A separate register appears in the darker, heavier suites — leather-upholstered headboards, integrated fireplaces set into dark-tiled surrounds, sculptural lounge chairs in moody tobacco tones. The bar and lounge, clad in rough ashlar stone with a hammered-metal bar front and amber suede club chairs, has the atmosphere of a serious après-ski room rather than a hotel amenity. The indoor pool hall, sheathed in vertical timber slats with floor-to-ceiling glazing onto a snow-laden treeline, is among the most architecturally resolved spa spaces the brand has delivered anywhere.","snippet":"One&Only's Montana mountain hotel integrates into the landscape through stepped timber massing and peak-framing corner suites.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts seeking high-altitude mountain retreat","vibe":"Timber-modern · secluded","highlights":["Low-slung timber structure steps along ridgeline, mirroring forest rhythm","Corner suites frame Spanish Peaks views through blackened steel frames","Indoor pool hall with floor-to-ceiling glazing onto snow-laden treeline"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,009","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,009","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/One%26Only%20Moonlight%20Basin2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"One&Only Moonlight Basin — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · One&Only Moonlight Basin · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of One&Only Moonlight Basin captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/One%26Only%20Moonlight%20Basin1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"One&Only Moonlight Basin — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · One&Only Moonlight Basin · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at One&Only Moonlight Basin, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/One%26Only%20Moonlight%20Basin4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"One&Only Moonlight Basin — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · One&Only Moonlight Basin · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at One&Only Moonlight Basin — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/One%26Only%20Moonlight%20Basin3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"One&Only Moonlight Basin — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · One&Only Moonlight Basin · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at One&Only Moonlight Basin, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/One%26Only%20Moonlight%20Basin5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"One&Only Moonlight Basin — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · One&Only Moonlight Basin · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at One&Only Moonlight Basin — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Montage Big Sky","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/montana/big-sky-montana/montage-big-sky","city":"Big Sky","cityHeader":"Big Sky • Spanish Peaks Enclave • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Spanish Peaks Enclave","designSummary":"At the foot of the Spanish Peaks in southwest Montana, where the Madison Range rises sharply above a valley that sees some of the deepest powder in the American West, Montage Big Sky opened in 2021 as the anchor of the Spanish Peaks Mountain Club — a 5,700-acre private community that had been developing around Lone Mountain for years before the hotel arrived. WORTHGROUP Architects designed the 150-room, four-story structure in a vernacular that draws on the great Montana lodges — heavy timber framing, stacked stone in a warm buff-and-rust palette, steeply pitched roofs with broad overhangs — scaled up to resort proportions without losing the domestic feeling that defines the Montage brand. The free-form outdoor pool and surrounding terrace, visible in the aerial image, anchor the building's south face against a backdrop of dense lodgepole pine and open mountain sky.\n\nInside, the interiors carry a quieter register than the exterior's rustic ambition suggests. Guestrooms pair nailhead-trimmed leather headboards and walnut case goods with in-room gas fireplaces framed in travertine or board-formed stone, the mountain panorama through timber-framed windows doing the heavy atmospheric work. The restaurant centers on an open kitchen beneath a coffered ceiling hung with cascading glass pendant clusters and wrought iron ring fixtures, the dark quartzite floor and warm oak millwork giving the room an evening weight. Deepest in the building, the spa's indoor pool is flanked by a raw, textured volcanic stone feature wall — a material note that grounds the whole interior back in the geology just outside.","snippet":"A 2021 Montana lodge at the foot of Spanish Peaks with timber-and-stone interiors and private mountain community access.","bestFor":"Skiers and mountain collectors in the Northern Rockies","vibe":"Rustic-refined · mountain-grounded","highlights":["150-room lodge anchoring a 5,700-acre private mountain community","Heavy timber and stacked stone interiors framed by Lone Mountain views","Spa with volcanic stone feature wall and indoor pool"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,080","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,080","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul82001ye15zvv4l5i0zh1713361770122_4da34517-d138-4826-afbc-7e6e87142cdb.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Montage Big Sky — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Montage Big Sky · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Montage Big Sky captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulb6n02g915zv76d9man81713361771095_ad450f9d-fbc7-4fd4-a667-308ef112534f.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Montage Big Sky — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Montage Big Sky · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Montage Big Sky, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ule5102xx15zv9t53xp8a1713361772315_7203adfe-aa4a-4d27-a894-1cdafb290596.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Montage Big Sky — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Montage Big Sky · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Montage Big Sky — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulh2v03g515zv09x7njqn1713361771693_68ce73e4-5300-4ea4-bee4-f4bc1913ee24.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Montage Big Sky — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Montage Big Sky · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Montage Big Sky, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulk2403y315zv8f71hsf01713361772991_48b1784f-e29c-4496-9fda-73ae6cb97394.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Montage Big Sky — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Montage Big Sky · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Montage Big Sky — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}