Luxury Ski Holidays and Vacations - Summer or Winter

Steamboat Springs has consistently been voted as one of the best Family Resorts in North America.

While "only" the fifth largest ski resort in Colorado, it is one of the favorites due to the lower elevation of only 6,900 feet which allows for everyone to get acclimated quickly and avoid any altitude sickness. With almost 3,000 acres of skiable terrain, it has something for everyone due to the evenly distributed beginner to advanced runs, moguls combined with easy groomers, and the internationally recognized tree skiing.

As a year-round community, Steamboat offers much more than "just" being a ski resort. Our guests love that there is much to choose from so skiers and non-skiers, grandparents and grandchildren, and friends with varying interests can truly vacation together. Downtown is a mere three miles away from the base area so going "in to town" is not an all-day excursion but rather a nice quick jaunt to enjoy shopping or over 75 restaurants with a wide variety of offerings.

There is good reason our local motto is, "We came for the winter but stayed for the summer." 

Steamboat experiences over 300 days of sunshine and blue skies. Everything that is available for one to do in the winter is available in the summer ...maybe with just fewer clothes and a different vehicle:

• The Champagne Powder slopes that are ridden in winter turn into lush hiking and biking trails to walk or ride in summer.
• The terrain that the family delights tubing down in winter becomes ATV riding and obstacle courses in the summer.
• Where one may ride across open fields in an old-fashioned sleigh before enjoying a nice 3-course dinner magically transforms in to a nationally acclaimed Keith Foster 18 hole golf course.
• The Yampa River can be enjoyed for ice or fly fishing but is best known for leisurely river floats in the summer.
• Horseback riding is available all year to either trot through deep snow or enjoy the foliage at any time spring, summer and fall.
• Hot-air balloon rides are breathtaking any season. Our winter guests are always pleasantly surprised how comfortable and warm it is forgetting that they have a nice fire as their vehicle to rise.
• Strawberry Hot Springs is a treasure that that is historically know by the Ute Indians as the "Medicine Springs". They are healing no matter what time of year you sit in them.