First Timer’s Guide
In Steamboat getting away feels a lot like coming home. We are a resort town, sure, but we’re known for our hospitality as much as our snow. Once you arrive in our valley, you’ll know that we are much more… from kids on skis being pulled down main street by horses, to sharing a chairlift with a local Olympian, this is a real town — & a lot of our locals were visitors once, too.
Steamboat Resort By The Numbers
Trails: 169
Skiable acres: 2,965
10 year snow average: 319″
Lifts: 18
Vertical drop: 3,668′
Champagne® Powder Snow
The phrase was coined in the early 1950s by local rancher Joe McElroy, who was out skiing on terrain that eventually would become the ski area and said the snow tickled his nose like champagne.
Olympic Heritage
Steamboat, known around the globe as Ski Town, U.S.A.®, has produced more winter Olympians, a record 95 and counting, than any other town in North America.