Design Elements: Pantone’s Color of the Year
The Pantone Color Institute, known as a global color authority for the design community, typically chooses one “Color of the Year.” This year, how...
Design Elements: The Spa at Sun Valley Makes a Spash
For the perfect pairing of world-class skiing and world-class pampering, look no further than Idaho’s Sun Valley Resort. Along with being voted by S...
Design Elements: 2021 Art & Home design Shows
Find these other design showcases around the Northern Rockies this summer and fall: May 7-9 Cheyenne Home & Patio Show Cheyenne Ice & Events C...
Design Elements: The Western Design Conference Returns This Fall
The 29th annual Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale (WDC) is back in action in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as an in-person event September 9 through...
Design Elements: Montage at Spanish Peaks Opens this Fall
Nestled within the 3,530-acre Spanish peaks mountain club in Big Sky, Montana, Montage Big Sky is slated to open year-round in November 2021, offering...
Design Elements: Elevated Living
Big Sky, Montana’s Moonlight Basin offers two new developments Set on the northwest side of Big Sky, Montana’s iconic lone peak, the Moonlight Bas...
Design Elements: The Perfect Kitchen
Known as the heart of the home, kitchens have likely been getting extra attention and use during the COVID-19 pandemic. So the recent release of The P...
Design Elements: Modern Americana
Designer Max Humphrey’s hipster-meets-grandma style “Any good collection has to start somewhere,” says Portland, Oregon-based interior designer ...
When Less is More
In Lakeside, Montana, two enchantingly modern and refreshingly small dwellings stand in a conifer forest beside Flathead Lake. Known as the Stoner Cre...
From the Editor: A sense of Belonging
In Big Sky Journal’s annual HOME issue, there always seems to be a common thread, something mentioned — in some shape or form — in just about ...
The Birds & the Bees
In order to thrive, native pollinators in the mountains and plains of Big Sky Country need native plants. And with the proper planning and plantings, ...
Form and Function
When you ask Kim Loftus about her chosen trade, she says simply, “I make objects out of clay.” Once you see her work, however, it becomes clear th...
Rethinking The Home Office
When COVID-19 hit and businesses around the world allowed people to work remotely, the home office took on a whole new meaning. Those spaces that were...
Inspired Accommodations
In many resort-oriented regions — like the popular tourist towns of Big Sky, Montana, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming — seasonal design takes on a whole...
Design Spotlight
Interior designer Sharon Lohss, founder of Shelter Interiors in Bozeman, Montana, credits good genes for her deep-rooted creativity. “My mother coul...
Design Elements: Home Building Basics
While building a new home — and bringing all of your design dreams to life — may sound like an exciting venture, there’s a lot more to it than s...
Alpine Aerie
When a couple from the Midwest came to visit dear friends in Big Sky, Montana, to ring in the New Year in 1993, they had no idea how much the experien...
Alpine Elegance
When a Texas family stumbled upon a slopeside lot at the Yellowstone Club, a private residential community and ski area in Big Sky, Montana, they knew...
Big Hole River Refuge
Twenty-five years ago, when a husband and wife from Los Angeles were traveling through the tiny town of Twin Bridges, Montana, they pulled up in front...
Five Shadows
An award-winning home that subtly casts its spell across a scenic meadow at the base of the Tetons — arguably Wyoming’s most storied mountain rang...
Lakeside Living
On some mornings, after Guinevere Cummings finishes her cup of coffee, she’ll turn to her husband, Kevin, and say she’d like to go waterskiing. ...
Mausefalle
For Ken and Sandra Moffet, it all started with the lot. Located in a secluded part of Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, the 3-acre parcel they fou...
Shining Brow
Twentieth-century architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright described his ideal home location as “the shining brow” of a hill. Indeed, he named his Wi...
Slopeside Delight
Sometimes, the inspiration for a house emerges from the most unlikely of places. In the case of one particular family, and their custom home at Montan...
Southern Sky
They say the kitchen is the heart of a home. So when a family from the East Coast decided to update and renovate their house in Big Sky, Montana’s Y...
Sportsman’s Paradise
When contractor Justin Bowland, of Yellowstone Traditions, and Kipp Halvorsen, of Faure Halvorsen Architects, met up with a potential client on an und...
Layers of Textures
To the birds gliding above Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana, one home might appear to be a cluster of small buildings — a somewhat anomalous sig...
Best of the West
The Stella collection by hammerton Studio Lighting plays an essential role in the design of a home. While it serves functional needs, it’s also an i...
Homecoming
When Max Baucus’ term as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China ended in 2017, he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, had a decision to make — th...
The House That Rob Built: A New Documentary Chronicles the Pioneering Coach of UM’s Lady Griz Basketball Team
The University of Montana women’s basketball documentary THE HOUSE THAT ROB BUILT, co-directed by Jonathan Cipiti, and UM alum Megan Harrington will...
Mending on the Yellowstone River
Considering the situation that each one of us was in at the time, floating through paradise hardly seemed like an apt description of the fishing trip ...
Dining Out: Madison Double R
Hunger. It’s a word we use to describe our passions and appetites, and two of mine happen to be fly fishing for wild trout and dining on artfully cr...
Images of the West: Angling Light
“My favorite time of day to take photos is in the morning,” says West Yellowstone, Montana-based fly fisherman and photographer John Juracek, “w...
Round Up: God’s Country
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Greek philosopher Heraclitus As The re...
Round Up: Montana’s Family Ponds
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. That well-worn quote was t...
Round Up: Female Fly-fishing groups
“In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.” — Herman Melville, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither On a Tuesday evening in mid-Jan...
Round Up: Hot Picks
BSJ editors spotlight businesses in the Northern Rockies that are outstanding in the field of fly fishing. Outfitter of the year Westbank Anglers Jack...
The Cutthroat Comeback
A remarkable fish story is unfolding in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. And situated at 7,733 feet, also the...
Dan Bailey’s
There are few man-made landmarks in Southwest Montana as recognizable as the statue of swimming trout that’s been perched above Dan Bailey’s Fly S...
Dipping in
After a morning hike around Shoshone Falls and the Evel Knievel jump site (where the legendary daredevil crashed due to a parachute malfunction and su...
Creatures from the Black lagoon
Energized by generous spring rains, the hillsides rising above the stream seemed almost impossibly green, and we really didn’t need the crowing cock...
Fly Fishing Montana’s Pristine Rosebud Creek
Our anticipation swells like the massive Beartooth Range that stands prominently before us. My traveling companion is my wife, Mary, and we’re headi...
Spring Bounty Morels
“April is the cruelest month…” —T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” You can bet that poet T. S. Eliot never spent a winter in Montana. Never mind...
Local Knowledge: Outdoor Aficionado
At 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning in September 2019, Scott Sanchez’s phone rang. The caller on the other end sounded stressed, asking if Sanchez could...
Artist of the West: Lessons from the Landscape
Some artists, when asked about their backgrounds, will trot out a pedigree full of art schools, MFAs, and institutions that have taught them how to pa...
Outside: Oh, The Fishes You’ll Miss and Wish You’d Caught
“Was that a fish?” I ask with a confused look on my face. “Yes, Jeff. That was a fish,” the guide responds, shaking his head. “Are you sure?...
History: Seeing Double in Yellowstone
Most people experiencing Yellowstone National Park at the turn of the 20th century weren’t visiting in person. Back then, travel was expensive and e...
From the Editor: United We Fish
Anyone who’s spent time fly fishing in the Northern Rockies understands that it has a way of taking your mind off of the problems in the world. Cast...
Western Design: Alpine Paradise
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is known for its sublime views, superb skiing, and dramatic wide-open spaces. For aspiring homeowners, though, it can be diffic...
Books: Reading the West
The Classic Sporting Art of Bob White (Stackpole Books, $75) is an eye-catching, oversized, lushly illustrated A book featuring 200 works by the legen...