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Yampa has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb), with warm summers and long, cold, snowy winters. Due to altitude and dryness, the diurnal temperature variation is large throughout the year, especially in summer, and the growing season is short, typically averaging just 80 days.
The Yampa River flows 250 miles (400 km) through northwestern Colorado, United States. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, it is a tributary of the Green River and a major part of the Colorado River system. The Yampa is one of the few free-flowing rivers in the western United States, with only a few small dams and diversions.
Location of Routt County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Routt County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Routt County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
South Routt School District RE-3, serving Oak Creek and Yampa; The county is also home to Steamboat Mountain School in Steamboat Springs and North Routt Community Charter School in Clark. 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 ...
Stagecoach Dam (center left) on Stagecoach Reservoir. Stagecoach Dam is a gravity dam on the Yampa River in Routt County , Colorado , located about 20 miles (32 km) south of Steamboat Springs . Built of roller-compacted concrete , the dam is 145 feet (44 m) high and 360 feet (110 m) long.
The Yampa (Yapudttka, Yampadttka, Yamparka, Yamparika) [citation needed] lived in the Yampa River Valley area and north of White River of the present-day state of Colorado [1] [2] near the Parianuche who lived to the south. They were called "root eaters". [2]
The Little Snake River is a tributary of the Yampa River, approximately 155 miles (249 km) long, in southwestern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado in the United States. It rises near the continental divide , in Routt National Forest in northern Routt County, Colorado , along the northern edge of the Park Range .
Echo Park Dam was proposed in the 1950s by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as a central feature of the Colorado River Storage Project.Situated on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, the dam was proposed for the Echo Park district of Dinosaur National Monument, flooding much of the Green and Yampa river valleys in the monument.