What’s So Special About Steamboat Springs? Steamboat Springs is known for its signature champagne powder and extensive outdoor activities, offering visitors and residents alike a chance to live and experience an active, outdoor lifestyle, year round.
Originally used as a summer resort in the 1900s, Steamboat Springs offered abundant hunting and fishing opportunities and exquisite hot springs, before it blossomed into a winter resort offering world-class skiing opportunities, winter activities, and signature champagne powder-helping small Northwest Colorado town earn its name as Ski Town USA.
In addition to Steamboat producing more Olympic athletes than any other town in the United States, Steamboat Springs is a historic town where cowboys, western heritage, retirees and families all settle to embrace the snowy lifestyle of a slower pace, more outdoor activities, and a more intimate community than what you would find in a city.
With roughly 15,000 year-round residents living in Steamboat Springs and another 50,000+ visitors arriving each year, Steamboat Springs is a small town with a big heart. Steeped in local tradition, Steamboat offers numerous annual events that are specific to this area, the cowboys who used to live here, and the original settlers who founded the town. Activities such as Winter Carnival, Friday night rodeos, the Cowboy Downhill Race, and summer Mustang roundup make this resort town as unique as its tradition, residents, and weather patterns.
Whether you come in the winter for the snow to ski, or in the summer to fish, bike, camp or hike, you will find a welcoming resort town with happy, active residents, a blend of western culture and modern past times, and the opportunity to partake in any athletic pursuit or activity you can imagine.
*This information is believed to be accurate but is not guaranteed, and is subject to change.*