DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Steamboat Springs was named when French Fur Trappers heard a sound that reminded them of a Steamboat. The sound actually came from the natural mineral springs at the far end of town now named the Steamboat Spring. The sound quit when the railroad was laid.
There are more than 150 springs in the area including Litha Springs, Strawberry Park Hot Springs, the Heart Springs at the Health & Recreation Center, Soda Springs and many on private lands.
The Depot (now the site of the Steamboat Springs Arts Council) was once one of the largest cattle shipping centers of the West.
The Chief Plaza Theater was named for the man who built it, Harry Gordon, a Miami Indian chief from Oklahoma.
Two women started the oldest continuous modern dance camp in the nation, Perry-Mansfield, 1914 in Strawberry Park. Dustin Hoffman, Julie Harris, Lee Remick and many others attended the camp. In 1992 the community of Steamboat Springs raised $150,000 in 6 weeks to save the 1.2 million dollar camp.
The Ute Indians were moved to a reservation in northern Utah after a confrontation with Nathan Meeker and the U.S. Army in 1879 along Milk Creek, northeast of Craig.
Yampa is a tuber like Plant that grows along riverbanks.
The original hospital in town is now the Old Town Pub.
James Crawford was one of the first settlers in Steamboat Springs in 1875.
The Cabin Hotel was at the site of the present day library (13th & Lincoln). It had 100 rooms, mainly for visitors who came to visit the hot springs on the railroad. It burned down in 1939 and claimed two lives.
Buddy Werner was a Steamboat Springs native and Olympic skier who was killed in an avalanche in the Alps in 1964.
F.M. Light & Sons is one of the oldest businesses in Steamboat Springs, established in 1905. F.M. use to travel throughout northwest Colorado and Wyoming selling merchandise.
Norwegian Carl Howelsen introduced ski jumping in Steamboat Springs during 1914.
Steamboat Springs boasts 54 Olympians who started their careers here. Not all are skiers!
Ranching is one of the valley's mainstays. Cattle were introduced into the area around 1860.
Nearly 9,000 crates of strawberries were shipped out of Strawberry Park in 1911, thus how it became known as Strawberry Park.
The Yampa River source is in the Flattop Mountains to the Southwest of Steamboat Springs.
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