Summer on Big Mountain

Pick your pace.

Relaxing to high-adrenaline: a gondola ride with Glacier views, a 1,900-foot zip, a slide you drive yourself, and a mountain of free fun in between.

Save 10% on lift rides and slides · book online 48+ hours ahead
Relaxing

Scenic Lift Rides

Enclosed gondola or open-air chair, your call, to the 6,817-foot summit. Glacier's peaks rise like a city skyline, and the Summit House pours until 4.

Round tripSingle rideSeason
Adults13-64$34$130
Juniors & Seniors7-12 · 65+$22$75
Children6 & under · ticket still requiredFreeFree
One wayhike up, ride down · or the reverse$22 
HoursDaily 10 - 5:30 · summer season
Ski passholdersFree scenic rides all summer
At the summitSummit House, Summit Shop, USFS Nature Center
Lunch up topServed until 4 p.m.
PetsNot on lifts
Exhilarating → thrilling

Zip lines, slides, and the trees

Zip Line Tour
$92
  • 6 zips, 2 hours, guided
  • Longest span 1,900 feet, up to 300 feet high
  • Side-by-side lines: scream together
  • Montana's longest lift-served course
  • 60-230 lbs · under 14 with an adult
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Alpine Slides
$14 /ride
  • 2 rides $26 · 4 rides $39 · 25 rides $215
  • Your sled, your hand brake, your speed
  • Chair 6 ride back up included
  • 36-48" ride free with a paying adult
  • Last ride 5:45
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Aerial Adventure Park
$62 · junior $46
  • 5 courses, 60+ obstacles, 2 full hours
  • Cable bridges, rope ladders, zips, a trapeze
  • 10 to 50 feet up, full-body harness
  • Ages 7+, under 265 lbs, no experience needed
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Two hours in the trees

Cable bridges that sway just enough, rope ladders, mid-air zips, and a trapeze for the brave. Every course is a little higher and a little harder than the last, and the harness has your back the whole way.

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Activity packages · valid 2 daysZip tour +$31 · Aerial adult +$33 / junior +$31
What's added1 scenic lift ride + 3 alpine slide rides
Cancellations24 hours ahead by phone · 406-862-2900
FootwearClosed-toe, closed-heel · zip and aerial park
Energizing

Hiking

Free, huckleberry-lined, and pointed straight at Glacier. Ride the lift one way for $22 if you'd rather earn only half the vertical.

Danny On Memorial Trail · village to summit, 2,000+ vertical feet through wildflower meadows3.8 mi · 2+ hrs
Flower Point Loop · from the summit, North Fork and Glacier views3.6 mi
East Rim Loop · the leisurely summit stroll1 mi
Danny On + Flower Point · the full tour5.4 mi · ~3 hrs
Bob Cedar Trail · cedar groves from the Base Lodge to the Whitefish Trail · hike and bike1 mi

2026 note: the lower third of the Danny On is rerouted this summer for the fuels reduction project. Follow signage. The trail honors Danny On, the Forest Service ecologist and photographer who skied Big Mountain until 1979.

The view you earn

From the summit ridge, Whitefish Lake and the whole Flathead Valley spread out below, with Glacier's peaks on the horizon. Hike up the Danny On, or ride the lift and save your legs for the loops. Either way, the Summit House has a cold drink with your name on it.

Ride the lift up
The mountain

The trails, live

Every hiking route drawn on the real mountain, Danny On included. Drag, pinch, and tilt with two fingers. Gold lines are hiking, brown are bike trails.

The summer trail map. The live 3D version needs wifi. In the mountain app it also shows where you are on the trail.

Gold is hiking, brown is bike, and the teal dashed line is the zip tour: six spans through the trees back to the village. Course line is representative; we plot the exact spans when the resort shares the survey. Same live 3D map that runs in the mountain app.

Engaging · and free

Kids and free fun

Spider Monkey Mountain
$12 all day
  • Two-story climbing maze, 8 web levels
  • Giant inflatable slide out
  • Heights 42-55" · attendant on site
  • Next to the patio: parents sit, kids climb
Tickets at Base Lodge
Yeti Scavenger Hunt
Free
  • Grab a card at Tickets & Information
  • Find 7+ yeti stickers around the mountain
  • Redeem for a prize
  • Patio games: cornhole, giant Connect Four
Just show up
Huckleberries & the Nature Center
Free
  • Berries ripest late July to mid-September
  • USFS Summit Nature Center: bears, lions, whitebark pines
  • Hike up or ride the lift
All summer

The high-adrenaline option

23 miles of lift-served downhill across three zones, rentals with full armor included, and a progression path from your first flow lap to Runaway Train. The Bike Park gets its own page because it earned it.

Whitefish Bike Park