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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 done. This year, he has a fleet of vans and long lines.
“There s days where we ll put 600 people on the river,” Van De Carr said. “Last year, we did about somewhere between 15,000 and 16,000 people. And that s probably like 4,000 or 5,000 above just an average summer.“
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 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 done. This year, he has a fleet of vans and long lines.
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A pair of semi-trucks drive down Lincoln Avenue on Sunday afternoon, something not normally seen through downtown Steamboat Springs. U.S. Highway 40 has been the main detour with Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon closed on and off because of mudslides near the Grizzly Creek burn scar.
While the Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade was moved to Yampa Street this year, the parade traffic might still have been moving quicker than a trip east on Lincoln Avenue before noon Sunday.
The traditional parade route traded in the festivities for the sounds of diesel engines and air brakes as U.S. Highway 40 through downtown Steamboat was again the main detour for the oft-closed of late Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon.