Steamboat Ski Resort

Steamboat ski resort sits in the heart of the Wild West, full of steakhouses and bars where ranchers rub shoulders with international tourists and ski bums.

The ski resort of Steamboat is a thoroughly modern place, although the age-old view down the rolling Yampa valley looks like something out of a cowboy movie. It has a reputation for its abundant lightweight Champagne Powder snow (a term it has trade marked), and has been much in demand by different corporate owners over the past decade. Steamboat ski resort was purchased most recently by Intrawest, which owns the famous 2010 Winter Olympic venue of Whistler and a handful of other leading North American ski areas.

Skiers have the option of staying in this now well-established but still ever-growing community around the lifts, or in the town; the former has the ease of doorstep skiing, the latter the comfort of doorstep shopping and nightlife.