Looking for just the right private club and have over $4 million to spend?  Some 13,600 acres of America's finest picturesque mountain views about an hour from Bozeman, Montana are home to Yellowstone Club, which is a passport to the ultimate in luxury communities.  West Yellowstone, and the Yellowstone National Park, is about an hour away.   The movers and shakers, top executives, heads of Fortune 500 companies and other millionaires and billionaires "who want the best the world has to offer” are congregating here.  Some fly their private planes into Bozeman, or West Yellowstone.  A place that has nothing to equal it anywhere in the world!   Built in 2000 to be the only totally private world-class ski and golf community in the world!  The entire facilities are designed for the discriminating few, and excellence is truly a tradition at YC.

The Club plans to limit membership to 864, and is about one third filled already.   Many have called the Yellowstone Club, "the last of the best."

When a resort has homes that start a little under $3 million (and Club members which include Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Steve Burke of Comcast, former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, pro golfer Anika Sorenstam, Dan Quail, and other rich and famous. fill the membership) one knows he is among big money.   The Club is home to an eloquent, especially commissioned, 18 hole golf course, as well as 2,700 vertical feet on 2,200 acres – slopes with so few skiers that "Perfect Powder™" can remain unpacked for days on end; complete with a high-speed Doppelmayr covered chairlift deposits its wealthy skiers with ease. 

Over 40 biking - hiking trails, horses to ride, rivers to walk beside, and a view of Rocky Mountain peaks surrounding you on all sides!  Less than 20% of the property is to be developed so it remains a wilderness get-a-way.  The caddies at the golf course carry bear spray, as do most of the construction workers!  Deer and elk roam freely along the roads, as does other Montana wildlife and the YC is designed to provide a place where a member can hike or walk for miles without seeing another member.

Security officers at the gate entrance are only the beginning - rumored that ex-Secret Service agents oversee the security.  The main lodge (which looks as if it is a combination of the best of Vail, Aspen, Jackson Hole and the Yellowstone National Park Lodge) filled with timbered ceilings housing imposing stained glass sky lights collected from Europe, fine art adorning the walls, gigantic fire place, bronze statuary scattered throughout, a wine list fit for a king, and truly world-class chef and cooking staff!  All of this wrapped in gigantic glass windows with each hosting a view of America's most incredible mountain peaks, shimmering aspen trees, and magnificent evergreens.  The 137,000 square-foot enchanting lodge, stands majestically in classic elegance among the mountain peaks surrounding it.  For the kids, there is plenty to do, including the annual  "Camp YC," a three-day outdoor, festival with themes that change daily, and a staff wearing  Hollywood designed clothes to match the event of the day!  One day there will be an outdoor skating rink atop the parking area of the Lodge.

The rich-and-famous will never be disappointed here with peace of mind knowing, at least for the moment they are insulated against many of life’s frustrations.

What do you get for $300,000 initial membership fee, a required land, condominium or custom residence purchase starting at $1,850,000 and a $18,000 a year annual dues payment?  P-l-e-n-t-y!  Aspen, Vail, Carmel, and the other "rich and famous" locations can't boast " 15 no-charge ski lifts, no-charge golf or caddy fees, and security and privacy of a U. S. President!  Spas, workout rooms, and personal trainers are ready for you to walk into the beautifully appointed all new facilities.  A place without, green fees, cash registers are a rarity, and no lift tickets to buy?  Tipping is discouraged.   A fire station that has the latest state-of-the-art equipment that even New York city would envy,  all protecting the property of the rich and famous who have Yellowstone Club property.  Never have so few, been so well protected.  Yes, this is the Yellowstone Club! 

For information about the "never to be forgotten" Yellowstone Club Golf course, see Golf Section of this issue.

If this was not enough, it is just a brief drive to the base of the mountains where the Gallatin River (the river that inspired the movie, A River Runs Through It) flows along endless miles of the Bozeman - West Yellowstone highway, and offers some of the Rockies’ finest trout fishing.   Just down the road in the Yellowstone National Park the famed Firehole, Madison, and Gibbon rivers await your fly rod, and you don't have to be rich or famous to fish some of the finest trout rivers in the entire world.   The Club also has a stream which holds trout running through the property where many fly fishermen enjoy the pristine environment and take a few trout from the sparkling stream.   Up and up and up a winding road there are log cabins designed with Montana/Ralph Lauren interiors available to guest of members for a reasonable fee.  It is worth the stay in one just to have the pool/hot tub access – it seems to drop off into the valley facing the grand, stately, imposing mountains just beyond.

To top all of that off, Yellowstone Club memberships can be resold, but that won't happen often.

One Yellowstone Club Trail
PO Box 161097
Big Sky, Montana 59716
888-700-7748 (USA Only)
1-406-995-4900

ycsales@yellowstoneclub.com

www.yellowstoneclub.com