Big Sky residents navigate summer rush, reminisce about when it was just us

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:10:10 +0000

The line at the post office stretched to the parking lot Tuesday morning, a mix of lifted Subarus and leased Range Rovers idling in the same slow rhythm. Nobody honked. That would be rude.

“I remember when you could drive to Lone Peak and back before lunch,” said Dale Harkness, 68, leaning against his 1998 Tacoma with 340,000 miles. He bought his place off South Fork in 1994 for what a single lift ticket costs now. “Now I plan an hour just for the roundabout.”

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Big Sky residents navigate summer rush, reminisce about when it was just us