Moonlight Basin is a private club in southwestern Montana, located in the Madison Range of the Rocky Mountains in the resort village of Big Sky.

[2] The ranch's original 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) were purchased by partners Lee Poole and Joe Vujovich of nearby Ennis, as well as Keith Brown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Moonlight Basin Ranch property sale was part of the 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) that Blixseth and the MacDougal brothers purchased from Plum Creek Timber for $27.5 million earlier in 1992.

Initially, visitors could only ski the Moonlight Basin side; if they wanted access to Big Sky, they were required to buy a separate ticket.

[6] The primary lift at Moonlight Basin is the Six Shooter, a high speed six-person chairlift that climbs 1,850 vertical feet (564 m) from the base.

[7] The other upper lift is the Lone Tree quad, a four-person chair that gives access to more advanced-level terrain northwest of the Headwaters Bowl.

As such, the parent company of the ski resort, Moonlight Basin Ranch, has committed a significant percentage of its land holdings to conservation.