Beartooth Basin Summer Ski Area, “the only strictly summer ski area in the nation,” is being sold.
“For sale” is spelled out in large red letters on the ski area’s website over the top of a photo of the steep mountainside and its lift towers.
“We’d like to see somebody buy it who has the financial wherewithal to bring it to its potential,” said co-owner and operations manager Austin Hart.
Beartooth Basin co-owner and operations manager Austin Hart is shown in 2017.
“Much like most business that sell in this world, the owners are looking for a change,” Hart wrote in an email. “We are a dynamic ownership group, each with separate careers and businesses that we manage in addition to Beartooth Basin. We would like to see our operation reach its highest potential, which we currently don’t have the resources for. We feel that we have improved this operation and left it better than when we started, and we would be happy to extend that opportunity to future owners.”
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