It's your typical world-class caliber ski resort area; beautiful and expensive, similar to Sun Valley, the Teton Village at Jackson Hole, or others. If you drove by on Highway 191 between Bozeman and West Yellowstone, the resort is about 10 miles off to your right and basically everything from the highway to the resort is part of a big planned community. Big Sky bills itself now as the largest ski resort in North America, but they are taking some artistic license as the total acreage includes the skiable terrain of the adjoining Yellowstone Club, a private ski resort of the super rich. Club members can ski all of Big Sky, but your Big Sky lift ticket doesn't let you ski on their exclusive ground. Still, if you can't get your fill from the other 4,000 or so skiable acres, you probably have a skiing problem. lol I haven't priced real estate in Big Sky, but I would assume the market there has more properties with 7-figure price tags than 6-figure ones. Of all the communities in Montana, I suspect Big Sky has the lowest percentage of native Montanans. Not that there's anything wrong with that , but don't expect that community to "feel like" Montana in many ways.