Steamboat Springs Wedding

Steamboat Springs, known as Ski Town USA, is a city in Routt County, Colorado, United States. The population was 9,815 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Routt CountyGR6. The town is an internationally known winter resort destination, highlighted by the Steamboat Ski Resort, which is on Mount Werner in the Park Range just east of the town. It also contains the much smaller Howelsen Hill ski area. It is located in the upper valley of the Yampa River, along U.S. Highway 40 just west of the Continental Divide at Rabbit Ears Pass.

The area was originally inhabited by the Yampatika Utes, who hunted in the valley during the summer. Trappers began to move into the area in the first decades of the 19th century. Ranchers soon followed, and the area still contains a large ranching community. The Utes were forcibly removed from the area to a reservation in Utah by the U.S. Army starting in 1879.