Homestead, the Midway resort where Utah families have soaked in a 10,000-year-old geothermal crater for generations, has officially put its first residences on the market.
The Homestead Group is carrying the nearly 190-acre Heber Valley property into Marriott's Autograph Collection. The one- and two-bedroom Homestead Residences are the first branded ownership ever offered on the grounds. It amounts to one of the most ambitious resort overhauls in Utah yet, and nearly everything on the property is being rebuilt, rethought, or replaced.
The anchor amenity is the Crater, a geothermal hot spring sealed under a natural limestone dome that holds a swimmable temperature every month of the year.
At roughly 10,000 years old, the spring predates the pyramids by more than five millennia, and it gives Homestead something no ski resort in the Wasatch can build: warm open water in the dead of a Utah winter. Guests soak in it, scuba divers descend into it, and six heated pools scattered across the grounds round out the water program.
The timing tracks with a statewide luxury buildout. Powder Haven, a Netflix-co-founder-backed private ski enclave capped at 650 families across 12,000 acres, is rising elsewhere in the Wasatch, and Amangiri just debuted a six-bedroom private desert villa in the southern canyons. Meanwhile, the Wasatch Back keeps absorbing buyers priced toward Park City, where Four Seasons Resort and Residences Deer Valley has already proven the branded-ownership model Homestead is now adopting.
A redesigned golf course will reopen on-site next spring with a new clubhouse, simulators, and practice facilities, and Simon's Tavern. The Spa at Homestead follows in 2027 alongside a fitness center and indoor pickleball courts.