STEAMBOAT - EDGEMONT

Steamboat Springs evokes many images and emotions to those that have been here. We enjoy an incredible climate - warm and dry in summer, blanketed by super-dry snow in winter. We blend the history of the ranching west with the thrill of a modern-day outdoor adventure playground... Steamboat Springs is the home of some of the lightest driest snow in North America, known to many as Champagne Powder, a term that is trademarked by the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation. Local rancher Joe McElroy coined the phrase before the ski area opened. Out skiing one sunny day in the early fifties on what terrain that eventually would be the ski area, he turned to a few friends and said the stuff tickled his nose like champagne…Champagne Powder... Steamboat Springs was named by French Fur trappers in the 1860s for a hot spring near the Yampa River that sounded like a steamboat. There are more than 150 mineral springs in the area and the opportunity to soak in the hot springs downtown or out at..

Also known as: Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation

Primary location: Steamboat Springs United States