Steamboat ski area is in the town of Steamboat Springs in northwest Colorado 155 miles from Denver, served by free shuttles from the Yampa Valley Airport 22 miles west. It is not as glamorous as Aspen, but it usually has the finest powder skiing in Colorado and weather that assures good skiing when other areas may have little snow.
Steamboat has a definite Western atmosphere.
Jeans and cowboy hats are more popular than fashionable ski togs. It is one of the Colorado resorts where, when you look from a mountain top, you see more ranch land than condos. It is, in fact, primarily ranch country with a beautiful ski resort set down in the middle of it. Steamboat's highest lift goes to 10,567 feet and the longest run is three miles. Average annual snowfall is 300 inches, considerably more than some other areas receive.