Big Sky has grown quickly. Our infrastructure hasn’t always kept pace.
In a recent Explore Big Sky column, BSRAD Executive Director Daniel Bierschwale looks at how Big Sky’s history has shaped the infrastructure challenges we face today and what it will take to catch up.
Unlike many communities, Big Sky didn’t grow around generations of publicly funded roads, water and wastewater systems, and other municipal infrastructure. At the same time, our small year-round population supports a community that serves a much larger workforce and hundreds of thousands of visitors.
The Big Sky Way: Catching Up explores that disconnect, the infrastructure needs facing Big Sky and why addressing them will require working together as a community.