Steamboat Springs, CO

Parents and students at Steamboat Springs High School will see significant changes to the parking lot, drop-off area and bus loop when they return for the first day of school later this month. The rearrangement of the high school parking lot separates traffic from parents dropping students off, students parking,...

Please, please, please — SLOW DOWN! We tell our kids to slow down when they run too fast, bike too fast or drive too fast, but what about us? Do we ever take our own advice and slow down? It seems like we are doing just the opposite. This...

When Smartwool announced plans to leave its founding headquarters for Denver in 2018 it left a lot of people scratching their heads. Not from the company’s merino wool, but for the conundrum it created for its workers in this thriving but remote corner of Colorado. Some followed Smartwool parent...

The Steamboat Springs School District is looking for a new leader at Sleeping Giant School after principal Jennifer Malouff resigned on Friday, Aug. 5. In a letter to parents sent on Monday, Aug. 8, new Superintendent Celine Wicks said the resignation doesn’t come at an ideal time, but added that the interim principal role had already been posted and that interviews would happen next week.

Yet another custom Colnago for the Australian as he prepares to tackle SBT GRVL and the remainder of the UCI Gravel World Series

The Steamboat Gravel (SBT GRVL) ride returns to Steamboat Aug. 12-13 with 3,000 riders of all abilities from all 50 states and 24 countries. This is the fourth year for the world class gravel race in and around Steamboat Springs and Routt County. Gravel riding is a growing sport where competitors ride on unpaved roads including dirt, gravel, and mixed-surface terrain.

Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. is seeking submissions from artists for a large, outdoor installation with the theme of “what makes you feel welcome in the outdoors.”. The piece is intended to do more than beautify the base area at the resort, but “celebrate the outdoors as a place where all are welcome to play and encourage reflection on collaboration,” according to the resort’s website.

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday awarded $8.5 million to northwest Colorado to support the region’s efforts to diversify local coal-dependent economies. The grants are part of the federal Coal Communities Commitment from the Economic Development Administration — allocating $300 million from the COVID-19 American Rescue Plan Act to support coal communities as they recover from the pandemic. The program aims to help communities create new jobs and opportunities as coal mines and power plants close throughout the nation.

A few feet above a fuel reservoir with a capacity of 40,000 gallons, the engine pulling a Union Pacific coal train caught fire Tuesday, Aug. 9, en route through Phippsburg. Yampa Fire Protection is comprised of volunteers exclusively, and they had to drop whatever they were doing at about 3 p.m. Tuesday to quickly get to the burning train.

On Thursday, July 21, 2022 members of our talented Steamboat Springs writers community gathered at Steamboat Art Museum for the reading of this years' Ekphrasis visual writing event, presented by Steamboat Magazine and Off the Beaten Path Bookstore. Set against the backdrop of the art that inspired the writing, the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition of Traditional Oils, winning entries from both adult and youth categories were read by local Steamboat celebrities.

For any local businesses looking for tools to carve out a competitive edge, there are two free workshops this month. On Wednesday, Aug. 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. there will be a free digital marketing fundamentals course held at Colorado Mountain College, Classroom SB 210, 1275 Crawford Ave. in Steamboat Springs.

The town of Hayden will receive $5.2 million in federal grant funding for a regional industrial park project that hopes to lesson impacts as the Hayden Station shutters by the end of the decade. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday, Aug. 9, that Hayden and neighboring Craig — another...

On Saturday there is a chance for conservatives across the Yampa Valley of all ages to gather and meet each other. There is a Freedom Stomp event being held on Sunday, Aug. 14, from 1 p.m to 4 p.m. at the Dry Creek Park in Hayden. This is a tri-county...

Featuring nine short and feature-length films, the free 2022 International Fly Fishing Film Festival will be in Steamboat Springs on Aug. 19. The approximately two-hour presentation will be at Torian Plum Steamboat, 1855 Ski Time Square Drive, and showcase fly fishing films from across the world, according to Chris Bird, executive producer.

Next week staff at Steamboat Springs High School will meet with a third-party facilitator hired by the school district to help ease tensions in the building that came to a head at the end of last school year. In her first Board of Education meeting since being hired as the...

The town of Hayden will receive $5.2 million dollars from a grant award. The money will go to build a business park to bring new business to town, and help with municipal infrastructure. But there’s more. The City of Craig has received a $3.3 million grant award for the...

On Wednesday, February 9th, a few high school students encountered a mountain lion attacking an elk in Routt County, Colorado. One of the teens caught the incident on video. “Check out this video sent in by RMEF follower Hoyt Raffay outside of Oak Creek, Colorado,” the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation wrote in a video caption posted Thursday, Feb. 10, on Facebook.

A helicopter again roamed the skies above Steamboat Resort on Sunday, Aug. 7, as crews installed four more towers for what will eventually become the longest and fastest 10-person gondola in North America. Foundations for the Wild Blue gondola towers had been previously installed in a line that will stretch...