Steamboat Springs, Colorado Steamboat Springs, Colorado Downtown Steamboat Springs, in May 2006 Downtown Steamboat Springs, in May 2006 The City of Steamboat Springs, often shortened as Steamboat, is a Home Rule Municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded city of Routt County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 12,088. The Steamboat Springs tourism trade is highlighted by Steamboat Ski Resort, which is on Mount Werner in the Park Range just east of the town.

Steamboat Springs is a mix of older architecture and newer resort developments, especially near the ski resort on the easterly edge of town.

The Routt County Courthouse in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The region surrounding Steamboat Springs was originally inhabited by the Yampatikas Utes, who hunted in the valley amid the summer.

James Harvey Crawford, the founder of Steamboat Springs, first appeared in the spring of 1874.

Steamboat is home to natural hot springs that are positioned throughout the region (see Geography).

When the trappers saw that there was no steamboat, and that the sound was coming from a hot spring, they decided to name the spring Steamboat Springs. The Steamboat Ski Resort was largely established by two small-town men, Jim Temple and John Fetcher.

In 1974, The Industrial Company (TIC) was started in Steamboat Springs and has since grown into one of the biggest industrial assembly companies in the United States with revenues of approximately $2 billion in 2007.

In 1993, the City Council of Steamboat Springs, Colorado conducted a poll of its inhabitants to choose a new name for the bridge that crossed the Yampa River on Shield Drive.

Historical buildings in Steamboat Springs include: According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.1 square miles (26 km2), all of it territory except for the Yampa River.

The Yampa Valley and encircling area contain a several geothermal hot springs.

The town/city is titled after the Steamboat Spring, positioned near the present-day library and the old train depot.

The spring itself was so titled because its bubbling sounded like a steamboat to early settlers.

Unfortunately, the assembly of the barns , which passes right next to the Steamboat Spring, silenced the chugging sound in 1908.

Locals take pride in the name of their town, as evidenced by the humorously titled Steamboat Yacht Club, a small-town restaurant formerly positioned on the Yampa River, but has since been closed.

Although there are no steamboats in the town, except for an allegorical "steamboat" playground in West Lincoln Park, the region does offer two hot springs that are open to the public.

Climate data for Steamboat Springs, Colorado (1981 2010) The ski resort at Steamboat Springs Steamboat Springs offers excellent skiing opportunities (also see history section) and has been the locale of world-class skiing competitions, including competitions for the 1989 and 1990 Alpine Skiing World Cup.

The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club has brought forth many prosperous skiers, and the Steamboat Ski Resort attracts a large number of visiting snow aficionados.

Snow cat skiing on Buffalo Pass is offered at Steamboat Powdercats which is directed under special use permits from the Routt - Medicine Bow National Forest and is an equal opportunity service provider.

One is called D-Hole; the other one near the library, close to the Steamboat Spring is titled Charlie's Hole or C-Hole for short, after small-town kayaker Charlie Beavers (1981 2002).

Every year on the first weekend of June, Steamboat Springs organizes the Yampa River Festival.

Additional affairs include but are not limited to a downriver race which is Colorado's only upstream slalom race, and The Crazy River Dog Contest, in which dogs retrieve sticks from the river and may pass a whitewater section. One of the winter's most prominent on-mountain affairs is the annual mid-January Cowboy Downhill. The defunct ski region Stagecoach is about twenty miles (32 km) south of Steamboat.

In 2011, Steamboat Springs was recognized by the League of American Bicyclists as a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community. In 2013 Steamboat Springs will host another stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, a multi-stage experienced cycling race, which draws over 1 million onsite reviewers and was recently impel by Cycling News as the World's Best Stage Race. Steamboat Springs owns and operates Bob Adams Field (ICAO: KSBS), a 4,300-foot (1,300 m) asphalt runway, positioned on Elk River Road that is available to lesser private airplane and general aviation.

Steamboat Springs is served by Greyhound Lines with direct service to Denver, CO and Salt Lake City, UT.

Debbie Armstrong (born 1963), alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist; lives in Steamboat Springs Nelson Carmichael (born 1965), mogul skier and Olympic bronze medalist; born in Steamboat Springs James Harvey Crawford (1845 1930), founder of Steamboat Springs; soldier, farmer, pioneer, cattleman, miner, territory developer, and politician Shannon Dunn-Downing (born 1972), freestyle snowboarder, Olympic bronze medalist and 4-time Winter X-Games medalist; raised in Steamboat Springs Ryan Dingle (born 1984) Professional hockey player; raised in Steamboat Springs Arielle Gold (born 1996), Olympian and World Champion snowboarder; born in Steamboat Springs Taylor Gold (born 1993), Olympian snowboarder; born in Steamboat Springs Dustin Henning (born 1984), Professional hockey player; born in Steamboat Springs Billy Kidd (born 1943), alpine skier and Olympic silver medalist; moved to Steamboat Springs in 1970 and serves as the Director of Skiing for the Steamboat Ski Resort Caroline Lalive (born 1979), alpine skier and two-time Olympian; attended the Lowell Whiteman School and lives in Steamboat Springs Todd Lodwick (born 1976), Nordic combined skier, Olympic silver medalist and a two-time World champion; born in Steamboat Springs Verne Lundquist (born 1940), American Sportscaster; resides in Steamboat Springs Travis Mayer (born 1982), freestyle skier and Olympic silver medalist; moved to Steamboat Springs to attend the Lowell Whiteman School Carey Mc - Williams (1905 1980), author, editor, and lawyer known for progressive ideas; born in Steamboat Springs Ryan Max Riley (born 1979), freestyle skier and humorist; attended the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat Reese Roper (born 1973), singer and songwriter; born in Steamboat Springs Andrew Sisco (born 1983), baseball player; born in Steamboat Springs Johnny Spillane (born 1980), Nordic combined skier, three-time Olympic silver medalist and a World champion; born in Steamboat Springs Wegeman (born 1927), Nordic combined skier; helped to precarious the Steamboat Springs region for skiing Buddy Werner (1936 1964), Olympic alpine skier who had Mount Werner titled in his honor in 1965, following his death in an avalanche; born and raised in Steamboat Springs Gordon Wren (1919 1999), ski jumper; last lived and died in Steamboat Springs Steamboat Springs has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Richards, Dee, Steamboat Round the Bend, 1976.

Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

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