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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 ...

In a 4-3 vote, Steamboat Springs City Council voted Tuesday to implement the bicycle safety stop, which would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and stop lights as stop signs when there are no cars in an intersection. The idea was first presented to council by Routt County Riders and Bicycle Colorado in January. The two groups presented data from the state of Idaho and other Colorado communities that have implemented the law and seen decreases in crashes between cars and bicyclists. “We’re talking about something that increases safety for cyclists and commuters around tow...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, four members of the Steamboat Springs City Council directed City Attorney Dan Foote to explore making Steamboat the first city in Colorado to tax timeshares. Council member Sonja Macys was absent from the meeting, and President Jason Lacy and member Robin Crossan recused themselves from the discussion due to conflicts of interest. Tuesday was the first time the council discussed the timeshare tax, which would be assessed when a timeshare owner or member trades with an owner or member of another program. Exchanges are often facili...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs City Council will move forward on discussions about putting a property tax on the 2021 ballot, but council members were less enthusiastic about its potential during a Tuesday night work session than they have been in the past, with one member dropping support for the move altogether. “We are not looking at the full picture of what this is going to do to our community members and if something like this would pass,” said council member Heather Sloop, who said she could no longer support a property tax. Scott Ford, a local economist and former City Cou...

The future of Save Our Season is in limbo. Graphic by Bryce Martin. While the group is comprised of volunteers, Sarah Bradford, owner of Steamboat Lodging Co. and co-founder of SOS, told council the organization needs the funding to pay for Facebook ads and create more graphics, the group’s primary mode of messaging. “We can’t afford to not do more than what we’re already doing,” SOS co-founder Robin Craigen said in an interview Tuesday. “Without help from the city, millions of dollars of revenue is at stake.” “The winter sales tax revenue picture is still a big question mark,...