Steamboat Springs

Steamboat Springs, city, seat (1877) of Routt county, north-central Colorado, U.S. Located in the high Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 6,762 feet (2,061 metres), the town was supposedly named for Steamboat Spring, reported to have recalled to trappers the chugging of a steamboat. The area was settled in 1875 and was largely given over to ranching and timbering; the town served as a commercial centre. In 1912 a Norwegian immigrant named Carl Howelson introduced...