Steamboat Springs, CO Real Estate and Community Blog

Last week, the Steamboat Springs newspaper conducted a survey about bringing “big box” stores like Home Depot, Target, and Costco to the Yampa Valley. The results were pretty evenly split. Half want them, half think they will wreck Routt County.
Steamboat Springs is a unique place. Travel today has become so homogenized that you can eat […]

Information is from the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber and Visitors Bureau and Idaho Mountain Express

Ski Time Square is coming down.
I was talking to the surveyors yesterday in front of the Century 21 real estate office. They were painting the lines where the new roads will go if/when they are approved by the city. (The lines go right through The Butcher Shop). Most businesses are winding down […]

Steamboat 700 is the new development in Steamboat Springs that could bring over 2000 homes to Steamboat over the next 20 years. Danny Mulcahy has been talking to groups about what is planned and how it’s going to affect Steamboat real estate. Here are some of the highlights from yesterday’s talk:

81% of lots will […]

 
I wanted to post how many properties sold in Stagecoach in March, and only found four. So I went back to the beginning of the year–January 1, 2008–to see how many single family houses, townhouses, and vacant land parcels have sold in Stagecoach over the last three months. There were only 11 properties […]

Edgemont, Steamboat Spring’s newest ski-in, ski-out development, is now accepting reservations for the first priority group. Anyone reserving a unit before April 8th will be in the Preferred Group and more likely to receive their top choices.
After April 8th, Edgemont reservations will go into the Time and Date Stamp Group.
Read more about Edgemont
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The Olympian is a residential/commercial development being built across the bridge from the Rodeo grounds. It’s on the corner of Yampa and Fifth, across the street from the Yampa River and Howelson Hill.
It’s a convenient location if you like to bike or walk on the Core Trail, go out to dinner and shop on […]

Want to see a street-level view of Steamboat Springs, just like you are here? Click on EveryScape Steamboat Springs for a walk through popular attractions in Steamboat. Images were made this fall, so you can see the various stages of construction and new developments in Steamboat.

It’s official. The snowfall we’ve had in Steamboat Springs is more snow than any other year on record. (Or since they started manipulating the numbers, but more on that later.) The mountain officially posted 450″ of snow on Mt. Werner–almost 38 feet of snow for the year!
The skiing has been incredible with […]

Today, my friend Sharon Spiegel from Steamboat Ski Patrol sent a link to a video Good Morning America did on avalanches. It was actually filmed several weeks ago and bumped from the Good Morning America line up at least once, but here is the clip showing the Steamboat Springs avalanche crew in action:
Good Morning […]