This is the first fall with One&Only Moonlight Basin open, and the north side of Lone Mountain is running on two schedules. The Landing sits up at Sky Lodge on the ski side, and it has closed for the season. Wildwood, Akira Back and Dear Josephine are still posting regular hours in October. So in the weeks when Big Sky usually goes quiet, Moonlight Basin still has a dinner reservation book. You just have to know which door to walk through.
The Landing follows the lifts
The Landing opened to the public in the summer of 2025, months before the rest of the resort. It sits in the One&Only Sky Lodge. That's also where the gondola from Madison Base Area arrives. The gondola opened in December 2024, and the resort said it would stay open to the public after One&Only's opening. In winter, hotel guests ride that gondola up to the Big Sky Resort slopes. The Landing's own pitch is "American alpine cuisine and après afternoons." That's a restaurant built around ski days.
Its schedule shows it. The Landing's page currently says "Closed for season reopening on November 23." Big Sky Resort lists its winter reopening as Wednesday, November 25. That puts The Landing back two days before the lifts start. The resort's operations page lists no fall service for the gondola, so for now the Sky Lodge side of Moonlight Basin is resting with the mountain.
When it returns, the menu runs from a $39 bison smash burger to a $52 half-chicken schnitzel and a $105 wagyu New York strip. A 20% service charge is included, and splitting a dish adds $5 per plate. Brunch, lunch and après are resort casual, and dinner is resort elegant.
The resort's dining rooms follow the hotel
The other venues are tied to a 240-acre resort with 73 rooms and suites, plus 19 cabins and other private homes. A hotel needs to feed its guests whether or not the lifts are running, and these venues' posted hours look like it.
| Venue | What it is | Posted hours | Who can book |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Landing | American Alpine, Sky Lodge | Closed; reopens November 23 | Public |
| Wildwood | Ranch-to-table, overlooking Lone Mountain | Breakfast 7–11 a.m., lunch noon–2:30 p.m., dinner 5–8:30 p.m. | Public |
| Akira Back | Modern Japanese | Dinner Tuesday–Saturday, 5–8:30 p.m. | Public |
| Dear Josephine | Prohibition-era cocktail bar | Daily, 5–11 p.m. | Public |
| Moonshack | Whiskey bar in a hidden cabin | Not posted | Hotel guests only |
The hours above come from each venue's current One&Only page. Who can book reflects how the resort described each venue before it opened in November 2025. At that point all three restaurants and Dear Josephine were announced as open to the public, and Moonshack was set aside for guests. The current pages still link public booking for The Landing, Wildwood and Akira Back. The reservation calendars for Wildwood and Akira Back were showing October dates, not a month-long closure.
Wildwood is the most useful room on a fall weekday, because it's the only one on the property posting three meals a day. Its kitchen describes its sourcing as bison, elk, honey, grains and river trout from nearby ranches and farms. Breakfast is built around local farm produce, and dinner centers on premium cuts.
One kitchen team, three ways to order the same steak
Matt Dahlkemper is executive chef over the whole culinary program. Wildwood's July 2026 menu also names executive sous chef Justin Yu, pastry chef Ashley Ginsberg and chef de cuisine Antonio Medina. With one leadership team across the property, the menus share some anchors. The clearest one is a wagyu New York strip at $105, which appears on The Landing's menu, Wildwood's and Akira Back's.
So the three restaurants are priced as different formats rather than different budgets. The headline steak costs the same in each room. What changes is the experience around it:
- Wildwood works in mid-range plates: beef tartare at $43, chicken roulade at $53, lamb curry at $58 and scallops at $68.
- Akira Back runs from a $62 wagyu picanha to a $240 dry-aged bison tomahawk. There's also a family-style option at $175 per person, which makes it easy to plan for a table of guests. The restaurant carries the name of chef Akira Back, who has earned Michelin stars elsewhere and was part of the resort's development team.
- Dear Josephine is the lowest-commitment way in. Many signature cocktails are $28, and bar bites run from a $24 charred eggplant spread to a $65 caviar toast. It's open until 11 p.m. every night, which makes it the latest-serving public option at the resort.
Booking a table in the off weeks
Even when Big Sky is quiet, these venues book through SevenRooms. Each restaurant has its own booking rules:
- The Landing opens dinner reservations 60 days ahead and doesn't take lunch reservations. Its reopening on November 23 is less than 60 days from early October, so its opening-week dinners are already within the booking window.
- Wildwood also opens dinner reservations 60 days out.
- Akira Back works on the same 60-day window, for Tuesday through Saturday service only. Plan Sunday and Monday dinners somewhere else.
- Dear Josephine's page doesn't describe a reservation policy. Calling the resort at +1 406 993 2323 is the simplest way to check before you drive up.
The spa is open in the off weeks too. When the resort opened, it said the public could book the One&Only Spa by reservation. The current spa page lists facility hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. It also says booking a treatment guarantees access to the facilities. Pairing a treatment with an early Wildwood dinner makes a full October afternoon without leaving Moonlight Basin. Hours and prices on these pages are undated and may change between now and ski season, so confirm before you go.
The wine program shows the schedule is deliberate
The best sign that the hotel side of Moonlight Basin plans to stay busy outside ski season came from the wine program. In June 2026, Wine Spectator announced its 2026 Restaurant Awards. Wildwood received an Award of Excellence. The restaurant cites a list that runs through France, Italy and Spain to Napa Valley, Sonoma and Oregon, plus a private room for tastings.
Late this summer, the resort added the Vintner Series, a set of winemaker dinners at The Landing and Wildwood. The featured estates were Hundred Acre Wines from Napa Valley and Château Ducru-Beaucaillou from Bordeaux. Head sommelier Patrick Reynaud said the series "grew naturally from our vision for the culinary wine program." He described it as a way "to create experiences that celebrate Montana's seasonal bounty." A resort running only on the ski calendar wouldn't book Bordeaux winemakers for the end of summer. These dinners were planned for the weeks between seasons.
That's the change since November 18, 2025, the morning the first One&Only guests checked in. Moonlight Basin used to be a ski-side neighborhood. It now has a hotel that keeps its own calendar. This fall, Wildwood is serving three meals a day, Akira Back is serving dinner five nights a week, and Dear Josephine is pouring until 11, while The Landing waits for November 23.
Moonlight Basin's seasons are shifting as the resort settles in, and Joy and her team watch how changes like this new fall calendar shape daily life on the north side of Lone Mountain. If you'd like to talk through how Moonlight Basin works through the year, Joy Vance & Co. is happy to share what we're seeing. Let's Connect.
