--- description: Find out why Snow Bear Chalets in Whitefish, Montana is on TIME’s 2018 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. title: Snow Bear Chalets Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae3cbfce1b62ae4/6989384c656a3ff2e5bd543e/snow-bear-chalet-montana-worlds-greatest-places-2018-38.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 22, 2018 # Snow Bear Chalets Whitefish, Montana by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Trevon Baker At [these chalets](https://snowbearchalets.com/ "undefined"), which opened last September, the ski-in, ski-out convenience is only half the draw. The rest is the whimsical design aesthetic, which owner Gail Goodwin describes as _Harry Potter_ meets _Hansel and Gretel_—think wood paneling, turrets and murals of constellations on the ceiling. “I wanted people who were skiing to stop and say, ‘I need to see that,’” she says. —_Samantha Cooney_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366759/snow-bear-chalets-whitefish-montana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366759/snow-bear-chalets-whitefish-montana/"},"headline":"Snow Bear Chalets","datePublished":"2018-08-22T14:58:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:26:05.087Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366759/snow-bear-chalets-whitefish-montana/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae3cbfce1b62ae4/6989384c656a3ff2e5bd543e/snow-bear-chalet-montana-worlds-greatest-places-2018-38.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae3cbfce1b62ae4/6989384c656a3ff2e5bd543e/snow-bear-chalet-montana-worlds-greatest-places-2018-38.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366759/snow-bear-chalets-whitefish-montana/","name":"Snow Bear Chalets"}}]}] ```