--- description: Find out why Big Sky, Montana is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. title: Big Sky, Montana: The World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt264a19824de2dd98/698a1e05db29874c83267019/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Big-Sky-Montana.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 20, 2021 # Big Sky, Montana The great wide open by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  A room at the new Montage Big Sky. A room at the new Montage Big Sky.Courtesy Montage Big Sky Montana’s premier ski-country destination is primed to lose its under-the-radar status as flocks of all-weather outdoor enthusiasts embrace its proximity to Yellow­stone and the cowboy energy of nearby Bozeman. Big Sky is reveling in its cool-kid status, thanks in part to a pandemic-related boom (and hit TV shows _Yellowstone_ and _Big Sky_). This year’s most seismic shift is the November opening of the luxury Montage Big Sky, a ski-in, ski-out resort with a private golf course, a bowling alley and access to four miles of private riverways for fly-fishing. Airlines, too, are betting on Big Sky’s appeal: Alaska recently added more flights to Bozeman, and new Southwest flights began taking off in the spring. _—Stacey Lastoe_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079224/big-sky-montana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079224/big-sky-montana/"},"headline":"Big Sky, Montana","datePublished":"2021-07-20T10:35:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:51:16.469Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079224/big-sky-montana/","keywords":["franchise","Magazine","World's Greatest Places"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt264a19824de2dd98/698a1e05db29874c83267019/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Big-Sky-Montana.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/blt264a19824de2dd98/698a1e05db29874c83267019/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Big-Sky-Montana.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-2021/6079224/big-sky-montana/","name":"Big Sky, Montana"}}]}] ```