Turner Mountain Ski Resort is an alpine ski area in the western United States, located in northwest Montana, 22 miles (35 km) north of Libby.

[citation needed] Libby is located along the western portion of U.S. Route 2 in the Kootenai Valley between the Cabinet Mountains to the south and the Purcell Mountains to the north.

In the 1950s, they started a plan to develop Turner Mountain into a ski area, and it was opened on New Year's weekend of 1961.

[1][2][3][4] Turner Mountain Ski Area is volunteer-run and managed by a nonprofit organization called Kootenai Winter Sports Ski Education Foundation, Inc..[5] The resort received funding from the City of Libby Economic Development Fund to develop a new lodge facility.

[6] The T-bar to the summit, over a mile (1.6 km) in length, debuted in 1961.