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Play Past Sunset

Sport Court Lighting in Montana

Montana gives you long summer evenings and short October afternoons. Professional LED lighting evens the score — uniform, glare-controlled light that turns dusk into game time.

A court without lighting works banker's hours. By October, Montana sunsets land before dinner, and the season's best playing temperatures arrive exactly when the light leaves. Purpose-built LED court lighting reclaims those hours: fixtures mounted on engineered poles, aimed by photometric plan, delivering uniform illumination across the playing surface without the glare that makes an overhead lob disappear. This is a different discipline from floodlighting a driveway — uniformity and cutoff matter as much as brightness.

We design lighting for new courts and retrofit existing ones, with poles set on engineered footings, conduit run cleanly underground, and controls as simple as a switch or as smart as a phone app with timers. Full-cutoff, dark-sky-friendly fixtures keep light on your court and off your neighbors' windows — a practical courtesy and, in some Montana jurisdictions, a code requirement. LED efficiency means running costs of pennies per game. Licensed, insured, and installed to a written photometric standard.

Residential court lighting typically runs $8,000–$25,000 installed; adding conduit during court construction meaningfully lowers the cost.

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Benefits

Why Homeowners Choose Us for Court Lighting

Hundreds of Extra Court Hours

Lighting extends play through early spring mornings, autumn evenings, and every summer night — often doubling annual usable hours on a Montana court.

Photometric Design, Not Guesswork

Fixture count, mounting height, and aiming angles come from a photometric plan targeting uniform light levels across the surface — no hot spots, no dim corners at the baseline.

Glare Control for Overhead Play

Full-cutoff optics and correct aiming keep fixtures out of players' sightlines, so lobs, serves, and rebounds stay visible instead of vanishing into a floodlight.

Dark-Sky and Neighbor Friendly

Shielded fixtures put light on the court and nowhere else — protecting Montana's night skies, neighborly relations, and compliance where local lighting ordinances apply.

LED Economics

Modern LEDs draw a fraction of what legacy metal-halide systems consumed and run 50,000+ hours before meaningful decline. Operating cost is pennies per game night.

Engineered Poles and Wiring

Poles set in engineered concrete footings rated for Montana wind loads, underground conduit, and code-compliant electrical work coordinated with a licensed electrician.

Our Process

How Your Court Lighting Project Runs

Lighting Consultation

We assess your court, sports, surroundings, and any local lighting ordinances, then define target light levels and fixture placement constraints.

Photometric Design

You review a lighting plan showing pole locations, fixture models, and modeled light levels across the court — plus spill levels at property lines.

Footings & Electrical Rough-In

Pole footings are excavated and poured, and trenched conduit is run from your panel, coordinated with a licensed electrician.

Poles, Fixtures & Aiming

Poles are set, fixtures mounted and precisely aimed to the photometric plan, and controls — switches, timers, or app — are configured.

Night Test & Walkthrough

We verify light levels and glare control after dark with you on the court, adjust aiming as needed, and hand over documentation.

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Court Lighting We've Built

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FAQs

Court Lighting Questions, Answered

What does court lighting cost?
Most residential court lighting systems run $8,000–$25,000 installed, depending on court size, pole count, and fixture grade. A pickleball court often needs two to four poles; a full basketball or tennis court typically four to six. Trenching distance from your electrical panel is a meaningful variable. Installing conduit during court construction saves real money, which is why we raise lighting early even for clients deferring it.
Will the lights bother my neighbors?
Not when designed properly. We specify full-cutoff LED fixtures that direct light downward onto the court with minimal spill, and the photometric plan models light levels at your property lines before anything is installed. Timers or app controls let you set curfews automatically. Several clients in view-sensitive Montana neighborhoods have gained HOA approval using our photometric documentation alone.
How bright should a court be?
Recreational play is comfortable at roughly 30 foot-candles maintained across the surface; competitive play warrants 50 or more. Uniformity matters as much as intensity — a court averaging 30 foot-candles with dark corners plays worse than an evenly lit 25. Our photometric designs target both metrics, and we verify them on the finished court at night rather than assuming the model was right.
Can you add lighting to an existing court?
Yes — retrofits are a large share of our lighting work. We set pole footings just outside the court perimeter or fencing, trench conduit with minimal disturbance to landscaping, and repair any surfaces we cross. If your court has fencing, poles and fence lines are integrated cleanly. The court typically stays playable throughout except for a day or two of footing and trenching work.
Are LED systems really worth it over cheaper floodlights?
For actual play, yes. Hardware-store floodlights on the garage produce glare, harsh shadows, and maybe a quarter of the court lit properly — players lose every high ball in the fixtures. Purpose-designed LED court lighting delivers uniform, glare-controlled coverage, lasts 50,000+ hours, and costs little to run. If the court cost tens of thousands, lighting is what makes those dollars usable after 6 p.m. for half the year.
Service Areas

Court Lighting Across Montana

One crew, one standard of work — from the Bitterroot to the Flathead, and west into Spokane and Coeur d'Alene.

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