Brian Head ski resort for sale for $34.75 million

PAROWAN (AP) — The Brian Head ski resort in southwest Utah is for sale for nearly $35 million.

A senior vice president with brokerage firm CB Richard Ellis Inc. says the resort is for sale because the two daughters of resort owner Jim Trees, who died in 2008, don't want to continue operating it. Trees had owned and run the resort since buying it in 1992.

But Brian Head Mayor Dutch Deutschlander says he's not sure the latest attempt to sell will be more successful than in the past. Deutschlander says he wants the resort to remain a viable business but thinks it's a bad time for it to be up for sale.

CB Richard Ellis' Jeff Woolfson says the resort near Parowan has significant development opportunities.

Brian Head Resort includes two mountains, nine lifts and 640 skiable acres on 53 runs.