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Investigators believe the teen stole the vehicle a few hours earlier about 35 miles away in Connecticut.

Parks and Rec Commission considering number of Yampa River outfitters, if more should be allowed to rent tubes The Steamboat Springs Parks and Recreation Commission wants to have a larger conversation about outfitters on the...

Peter Van De Carr, the owner of Backdoor Sports, has long been vocal about his disagreements with Steamboat Springs’ policies for closing the Yampa River to recreational and commercial users. Per city rules, high temperatures...

People were lined up outside of Backdoor Sports to rent tubes Monday morning, July 18, 2022, and inside longtime owner Peter Van De Carr was on the phone taking names and numbers from customers hoping to...

People were lined up outside of Backdoor Sports to rent tubes Monday morning, July 18, 2022, and inside longtime owner Peter Van De Carr was on the phone taking names and numbers from customers hoping to...

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/ Tubers float the Yampa River through downtown Steamboat Springs on July 1. Thousands of tourists travel to this mountain town each year to visit the river. At Backdoor Sports on Yampa Street, dozens of people from Wisconsin, Kentucky and Illinois were lining up this month to rent river tubes days before the waterway closed because of drought conditions. Peter Van De Carr started the business 35 years ago with 10 tubes and a single limousine to ferry people back up the river when they were don...

Capitol Coverage Tubers float the Yampa River through downtown Steamboat Springs on July 1. Thousands of tourists travel to this mountain town each year to visit the river. After a year of coronavirus restrictions and cancelled travel plans, tourists have been flocking by the thousands to Steamboat Springs to cool off in the Yampa River. At Backdoor Sports on Yampa Street, dozens of people from Wisconsin, Kentucky and Illinois were lining up this month to rent river tubes days before the wate...

Tubers head down the Yampa River early Monday afternoon, but rising water temperatures may make sights like this rare as the summer progresses. If water temperatures exceed 75 degrees for two days in a row, commercial tubing operations will be shut down, and a voluntary closure would ask all river users to stay out of the water. (Photo by John F. Russell) Outfitters on the Yampa River have expected this summer to be one of the shorter seasons in recent memory, and it looked like it wasn’t eve...

. The money will go toward river education campaigns, signage and cleanups. The second measure from the city provides the city’s three commercial river operators — Backdoor Sports, Bucking Rainbow Outfitters and One Stop Ski Shop — the opportunity to flex their daily allotments. In previous years, each business was allowed a certain number of tube allotments per day, but in 2021 the businesses are given a certain number of monthly allotments that can be used whenever they’d like. Emalee...