For sale: One of Utah’s 16 public ski areas.

A Zillow listing posted Monday announced that Cherry Peak Resort, located just north of Logan, is on the market. The asking price for the 174 acres, including four lifts and dozens of cut runs? $22.5 million.

Logan native John Chadwick established Cherry Peak as Utah’s 14th ski area in 2014. Twelve years later, Chadwick said he’s selling it because he’s ready to retire.

“I need to be done,” Chadwick, 67, said. “This is a hard industry to be in.”

Chadwick said the ski area and summer operations will continue until Cherry Peak is sold. He has not ruled out continuing to own a share of the resort.

Evan Thayer, the Utah forecaster for OpenSnow.com, proposed a community-ownership model on his X account Monday.

“If all my followers on Twitter contributed $392 each, we could buy it as a group,” he wrote. “Who’s in?”

Quite a few people responded to Thayer with interest, some even willing to pay more than their share to reduce the number of buyers — and perhaps the number of skiers and snowboarders on the slopes as well.

Chadwick said whoever buys Cherry Peak will need to have deep pockets.

“It’ll take a fair amount of money just to buy it,” he said. “And they’ve got to take it to the next level.”

Cherry Peak is among the smallest and the lowest of Utah’s public ski and snowboard areas. Including access to adjacent public lands, the resort offers more than 220 acres of skiing and snowboarding and 1,265 feet of vertical drop, according to the listing. It also has night skiing and a terrain park.

Cherry Peak’s base elevation sits at 5,775 feet with a summit elevation of 7,040 feet — both the second lowest in the state.

The resort typically boasts 321 inches of annual snowfall, according to its website. Yet last ski season — the warmest on record for Utah — Cherry Peak didn’t open until after the winter holiday rush. While the ski area has snowmaking machines, temperatures rarely were cold enough to be able to use them. It closed abruptly March 11 amidst unseasonably warm temperatures.

Chadwick said the dismal season, which was bad for all Utah resorts, “had nothing to do” with his decision to sell.

“I just built a small ski resort with the intention of someday selling it to someone who maybe could put [in] condos or a hotel or they could take it to a higher level than I can take it,” he said.

In addition to the three triple chairlifts and a magic carpet, the ski area includes a 15,784 square-foot lodge and doubles as a concert and wedding venue in the summer. It was scheduled to host nearly a concert a week this summer, including Celtic singer Chloe Agnew and the 1980s cover band Electric Avenue.

The Zillow listing called Cherry Peak a “fully operating resort, four-season event venue, and development opportunity in one asset.”

It also noted that the Cherry Peak sale “is not the closure of a resort, only its next chapter.”