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Steamboat Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Routt County, Colorado, United States. [8] The population was 13,224 at the 2020 census. [9] Steamboat Springs is the principal city of the Steamboat Springs Micropolitan Statistical Area, and it is the largest city in northwestern Colorado.
Steamboat Resort is a major ski area in the western United States, located in northwestern Colorado at Steamboat Springs. Operated by the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation, it is located on Mount Werner, a mountain in the Park Range in the Routt National Forest. Originally named Storm Mountain ski area, it opened on January 12, 1963. [1] [2]
The Steamboat Springs Downtown Historic District is a historic district covering about six blocks which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [2]The district consists of "mainly one to two story brick and wood commercial buildings with a sampling of buildings three stories or more.
Routt County is also home to the Steamboat Springs campus of Colorado Mountain College. CMC Steamboat is the only college in the United States that offers a degree in Ski & Snowboard Business, which focuses on the retail, manufacturing, and marketing of snowsports.
James Harvey Crawford (1845-1930) was the founder of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He was a man of many vocations: soldier, farmer, pioneer, cattleman, miner, land developer, and politician. He was called the "Father of Steamboat Springs", and his wife Margaret Emerine (Bourn) Crawford was called the "Mother of Routt County". [1]
Howelsen has been the training ground for 89 Olympians making over 130 Winter Olympic appearances, 15 members of the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame, and 6 members of the National Ski Hall of fame. Howelsen Hill is open to the public and is owned and operated by the City of Steamboat Springs Parks, Open Space and Recreation Department.
The Steamboat Mountain Lily was in operation on the French Broad River from 1881-1885. Col. S.V. Pickens of Hendersonville and a native of Buncombe County was founder of the French Broad Steamboat ...
Steamboat Springs may refer to: Steamboat Springs, Colorado, U.S., a city Steamboat Springs Airport; Steamboat Springs High School; Steamboat Springs (Nevada), U.S., a volcanic field with extensive geothermal activity