Two linked ski areas in Montana have come under common ownership this autumn and are now being jointly promoting themselves as the 'Biggest Ski Area in America.'
Big Sky Resort and its neighbour Moonlight Basin offer a combined 5,750 acres of terrain, served by 30 lifts.
This is more than America's better known big ski areas Vail (5,289 acres), Heavenly (4,800 acres), Squaw Valley (4,000 acres) and Mammoth (3,500 acres).
Big Sky is the 'buyer' of Moonlight Basin and is currently using both names, although seems to be giving more prominence to the longer established Big Sky name. Moonlight Basin's website now redirects to Big Sky's site.
For 2013-14, Big Sky's 40th season, area has added more glade skiing and a redesigned beginner ski zone.
There is, uniquely for North America, a third linked ski area, the Yellowstone Club, making the ski area even bigger, but access to those slopes are limited to private owners of property at that resort.
Yellowstone has 2000 acres of terrain giving 7,750 acres of accessible skiing to those wealthy enough to holiday there, the second largest ski area in North America after Canada's Whistler Blackcomb