2024 Buyer's Presentation

The Buyer’s Resource

SSIR–Who We Are

With 3 offices and over 80 brokers, Steamboat Sotheby’s International Realty is Steamboat’s leading real estate firm.

With an emphasis on lifestyle, our brokers are skiers who love to take meetings on the gondola during a powder day. We’re ranchers who know what it means to live with the land. We’re fisherman and hunters who appreciate the order of nature. We’re parents whose kids are being raised Steamboat-style, getting pulled behind a horse down Lincoln Avenue, a century-old Steamboat Winter Carnival tradition.

Steamboat was a town first. It’s cowboy country as much as it is a ski town. It’s a friendly town and a family town. We know Steamboat because it’s our home.

Steamboat Springs – A Rich History

Nestled in the wide, open spaces of the Yampa valley on the western slope of the Continental Divide, Steamboat Springs has long been known for it’s western hospitality.

Long before Steamboat Springs became the world-class resort it is today, the Ute Indians adopted the area as their summer home. The Yampa Valley was the summer hunting grounds of the Ute Indians for hundreds of years. The first white men passed through the area in the early 1800s. The name Steamboat Springs is said to have originated in the 1820s when three French trappers traveling along the Yampa River heard a “chug, chug” sound. Thinking they had reached a major river one yelled, “a Steamboat, by gar!” Upon further investigation, they discovered the sound came from a natural mineral spring, to be named the Steamboat Spring. The town that grew up around that spring became Steamboat Springs. The Steamboat Spring still sits at the far end of town; however, it ceased to “chug” when the railroad bed was laid above it in 1908.

I t wasn’t until 1875 that the first permanent settler, James Crawford brought his family to this area. Crawford lived peaceably among the Ute Indians, who annually visited the “medicine springs.” After the removal of the Indians from Colorado in 1880 following the battle at Milk Creek, other settlers gradually joined the Crawfords. By 1885 five other families had settled in the area.

T he earliest mail service (from Georgetown) was by skis or snowshoes in winter, horseback or afoot in summer. Extension of the Rio Grande Railroad from Leadville to Wolcott in 1888 saw the establishment of a regular stage line, with coaches in the summer and sleds in the winter. This provided both passenger and mail service. The stage line was much improved in 1890 when the state bridged the Grand River, now the Colorado River.

From the earliest times, one of the town’s greatest attractions was the Bath House, supplied with natural hot mineral spring water. On this same site on the east end of Lincoln Avenue, the Steamboat Springs Health and Recreation Association operates the spring fed pools currently in use.

M ajor improvements to the town occurred in the late 1880s, including the building of the Sheridan Hotel, a fine sawed log a structure built by Henry Schaff on the west end of town, and the first bridge across the Bear (now Yampa) River near the Bath House in 1889. Neither of these structures remains today.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS 1909

Steamboat Springs – A Rich History

Skiing became an integral part of Steamboat’s lifestyle just after the turn of the century. Known officially as “Ski Town USA,” Steamboat Springs has produced more Winter Olympians than any other town in the US. Today, summer vacations and winter “champagne powder” skiing are enjoyed with equal enthusiasm, while thriving downtown and mtn commerce areas make Steamboat a healthy year-round community. In Steamboat you’ll find an active outdoor lifestyle that values children & families in a safe environment. Playgrounds and parks abound with interconnecting trail systems. National Forest lands, state parks, wilderness areas, rivers and lakes provide for numerous adventures at your doorstep, while those craving cultural activities will be amazed at the abundance & sophistication of the choices available. A

Year-Round Recreation

No matter the season there is always something to love about Steamboat

SUMMER

Road biking

Mountain biking/downhill biking

Farmers’ Market

Steamboat Free Summer Concert Series

Steamboat Springs Pro Rodeo

Stand Up Paddle Boarding

Steamboat & Pearl Lake, North Routt

King Solomon Falls, North Routt

Cruise the Core Trail on bike

Golfing

Swimming

Hiking

Horseback riding

Water skiing

Gondola rides

Camping

Alpine Slide at Howelsen Hill

Tube the Yampa River

Visit the Yampa River Botanic Park

FALL

Scenic drives to see the golden aspens

Hiking

Camping

Hunting

Road biking

Mountain biking

WINTER

Skiing/Riding at Steamboat Ski Area

Skiing/Riding at Howelsen Hill, downtown

Cross country skiing

Snowmobile tours

Sleigh ride dinner

“Skin” (hike) up the mountain

Snowshoeing/hiking

“Fat bike” mountain biking

Ice skating

Sledding

SPRING

Kayaking

River rafting on the Yampa River

Hiking

Gardening

Bird watching

Tour local breweries

Enjoy off-season restaurant specials

YEAR ROUND

Strawberry Park/OldTown Hot Springs

Hot air balloon rides

Fly fishing

Indoor tennis/pickleball

Sunset Happy Hour top of the Gondola

... and so much more

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