Skyline Guide Service is one of Montana's oldest outfitting families, with over 50 years of experience. This vast experience, combined with our desire to make your hunting trip a great success, can help to make this hunt one of your more memorable experiences.

Recently we finished building a beautiful new lodge for our guests. We built it to provide our hunters a comfortable place to stay during their week hunt with us. Now you can enjoy an exciting day of hunting and come home to the best in lodging. Isn't that what a perfect hunting vacation is all about? A nice soft bed to sleep in, a warm shower, wonderful food, relaxing hot tub, and the chance to hunt trophy size elk in the beautiful Beartooth Mountains.

A Hunter's Day

Imagine the premier hunting experience. Arrive at the new lodge on the afternoon before your hunt to a hearty home cooked dinner. Meet Vic and Liz, your guides, and the rest of the Skyline crew as you relax in the living room. You will then retire to a large, clean bedroom with two queen beds and it's own bathroom for you and your buddy.

Early the next morning wake up to the smell of a hearty breakfast. Each morning something different is prepared but pancakes, bacon and eggs are always popular. Once the stomach is filled, you'll mount a gentle, sure footed horse, and head directly into the forest to hunt.

The fair chase hunt of the Majestic Mountain Monarch, the Elk, called "Wapiti" by natives, is one of the greatest trophies available to the North American Hunter. You will hunt the elk in their native habitat; this is not a migration hunt. The area has some heavily timbered, rugged terrain and you will hunt at over 8000 feet. This is not a private ranch harvest, you need to be in good enough physical condition to walk at least one mile and ride a horse at least two hours at a time. You will need to bring a 30-06 or better caliber rifle with which you are familiar. Skyline has a good success ratio for hunters who come to hunt.

Arrive home around dusk from a day of searching for, or tagging, the beautiful elk you've always dreamed about. Wash up and get comfortable, then come downstairs to one of Liz's delicious dinners. Each night a heartwarming, home cooked meal will be served. Steak, pasta, and other mouthwatering dishes will enhance your hunting experience with us. After dinner you can relax in the hot tub before getting a good nights rest.

Elk Hunting Details
In this mountainous country, weather can range from balmy heat to freezing blizzards. It is usually temperate weather, but be prepared with layers of clothing, waterproof boots and outerwear.

There is one guide for every two hunters and a maximum of six hunters per week. Fishing in the area is excellent and the scenery alone is worth the trip.

Our designated hunting area, #316, opens the 15th of September for our early-bugling season and is an either sex area for elk.

If you're arriving by plane, you'll probably want to rent a car and drive over the beautiful Beartooth pass from Billings, MT or over Dead Indian Pass from Cody, WY. Click Here to see where we are located and how to get to our place.

Hunting Packages and Prices

There are three different weeks to choose from between Sept. 15 and Oct. 16, but they fill up fast, so reserve your spot today.

• Elk, Deer & Bear combo (5 days) $3,200 plus tax
• Elk, Deer & Bear combo (7 days) $3,600 plus tax
• Moose (7 days) $3,600 plus tax
• Sheep (10 days) $6,000 plus tax

The cost of the hunt includes:

• Accommodations at the Skyline Lodge for 6 or 8 nights
• All meals including dinner for the evening before your hunt and breakfast the morning you leave
• A horse for the week
• A guide per two hunters
• Help in field dressing and packing out harvested game
• Taking the harvested game to a meat packer if you choose

Licenses, gratuities (optional), meat processing and shipping, and taxidermy work are not included in the price of your hunt.

Skyline Guide Service has excellent accommodations, a fair success ratio, and experienced guides, all at a price below our competitors. We offer this because we are a third generation family owned business wanting to give our hunters an excellent experience. We care about our customers. If you're interested in our past hunters opinions, we'd be more than happy to send you a list of referrals.

Hunting License
Out-of-state license applications may be obtained by writing to the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Helena, MT 59601 or visiting their website at www.fwp.state.mt.us. We can help you obtain a license. Please contact us early since licenses are sold on March 15.

Other Hunts
General season Mule Deer/Elk combo camp (5 days) $2,600 - no tax

• The 5 day hunt is a backcountry tent camp
• The 5 day lodge hunt is a full 5 days which includes one day traveling in, one day out.
• The 7 day lodge hunt is a full 7 days which includes one day traveling in, one day out.