Beartooth Basin in the Beartooth Mountains offers the only summer ski experience in the United States, opening on Memorial Day. The terrain is steep and difficult, targeting intermediate to advanced skiers and riders at about 10,000 feet, with conditions that can vary widely across the mountain. Past seasons have been disrupted by insufficient snow and weather, sometimes preventing opening or limiting the season length. This year, additional snowfall of about 9 to 10 inches helped fill in bare areas, and base conditions are described as smoother than last year. The goal is to continue skiing until around the Summer Solstice on June 21, rather than into July.
"Beartooth Basin, Montana, is the only summer ski area in the United States, and it opened on Memorial Day this year. The mountain is geared towards intermediate to advanced skiers and riders due to its steep and difficult terrain with constantly changing conditions perched at 10,000 feet. The ski area has been hit by a number of unfortunate seasons where it wasn't even able to open or was only open for a short season due to lack of snow and weather conditions. Hopefully, its 2026 summer ski season will be better than past ones."
"Currently, the terrain conditions and base levels vary on the mountain, with some spots over 10 feet deep while others are wind-blown, bare spots in between. "This season is rolling really smooth, and the snow looks better than last year," Justin Modroo, Co-Owner of Beartooth Basin, told SnowBrains in a phone interview. Modroo is one of five co-owners at Beartooth, and he has been hitting the steep terrain for over 40 years and has even competed as a professional big mountain skier."
"Once the team at the mountain was able to check out the terrain conditions, they knew this season was going to be better than the previous seasons. Last Thursday, the mountain received about an additional 9 to 10 inches of snow, which helped fill in some of the bare spots. The West did not have a great 2025-26 ski season with warm temperatures and low snowfall. "We will not be skiing into July this year," Modroo said. "We hope to be skiing to the Summer Solstice on June 21.""
"For those who have never heard of Beartooth Basin, it features some of the most unique terrain in the United States. The ski area is actually located in Wyoming, and not Montana. The ski resort's mailbox is located in Montana, and therefore that is where their address is assigned to. It is a very rustic, die-hard, big mountain type of skier or rider that heads to Beartooth every summer. Two lifts give access to a total of 1,000 vertical feet."
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