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The Steamboat Wine Festival and Colorado Group Realty Parade of Homes is this weekend. The Parade of Homes is Colorado Group Realty’s signature event and fundraiser for local Steamboat charities. Read the press release below, and call 970-819-6372 for tickets to the Parade of Homes. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO-The 2010 Steamboat Springs Parade of Homes, presented [...]

(These came from a Vail guy who now owns a lot of property here in Steamboat Springs.) Steamboat is a World-Class Resort. Year after year, Steamboat is in the Top 10 Resorts. Steamboat Springs is a comfortable 6,700′ in elevation–not the headache inducing 9000′+ of other resorts. Steamboat real estate is one of the best [...]

USA Today published an article about Steamboat Springs today entitled, “Still a ski town, but with so much more”. Anyone who has spent time here in Steamboat knows it’s a great place to visit.   It’s an even better place to live–even if you can only manage part time. Some of the reasons people love living [...]

The Yampa River Botanic Park is a hidden gem in Steamboat.  It’s located between downtown Steamboat and the mountain area and can be accessed from the Core Trail or Pamela Lane (turn by Freshies and Mt. View Car Wash, then turn left on Pamela Lane). What I love about the Botanic Park is the ever-changing [...]

I ran across this blog post and video from MileHighMamas.com and one of their bloggers’ recent trips to Steamboat. Amber Johnson and her family hiked, walked the Yampa Valley Core Trail, rode the Gondola, visited the Strawberry Park Hot Springs, went to the Rodeo then summed it all up by declaring Steamboat Springs “the state’s [...]

Fish Creek Falls is an incredible 283-foot waterfall located in the Routt National Forest only 4 miles from downtown Steamboat Springs.  It’s one of the many gems close to town that you must see when you are in Steamboat. The falls are most impressive in the spring when the melting snow creates a torrential wall [...]

Winter Carnival in Steamboat Springs has been a tradition for 96 years, and you won’t see anything like it outside of Routt County.  It is a 3-day event that includes horses, skiing, flames, fireworks, and a lighted man suited up with head-to-toe lightbulbs shooting fireworks from a back pack. This year Leif Hovelson from Sweden [...]

If you were in Steamboat Springs this morning and didn’t ski, shame on you!  The snow was so incredible that everyone we rode up on the lift with said the same thing:  This is one of the best days ever. The snow was so deep we were getting face shots inching forward in the lift [...]

It used to be that families gathered at Grandma’s house to celebrate the holidays.  I remember being crammed into a bedroom with all my cousins on Christmas Eve, and my grandfather threatening us that if we went downstairs before it was light outside, we could forget about opening our presents.  Besides eating meals and watching [...]

Here’s a joke a mortgage lender told me: The mother asks the son what he wants to be for Halloween. “I want to be real scary. I want to be Freddie”. The mom replies, “Freddie Krueger? From ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’?” “No”, the boy replies, “Freddie Mac, from ‘Nightmare on Wall Street’.’” Steamboat Springs was [...]