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Snowboarding Zone - Steamboat, Colorado:
Riders Guide - Steamboat is a huge resort with 25 lifts, including 1 gondola and 4 high speed quads, which take you up to 164 trails where you can enjoy 335 inches of powdery magic on their longest run of 15,840 feet. Their trails are rated 13% for Beginners, 56% for Intermediates, and 31% for Experts.
Parks and Pipes - Steamboat has some of the country's best parks and pipes. You have to try the Mavericks Superpipe and the SoBe Terrain Park. Mavericks Superpipe is one of the longest superpipes in the world at 650 feet long, 50 feet wide and 15-foot walls with 17-foot transitions and a 50-foot quarterpipe to finish up your very memorable ride. The SoBe Terrain Park is packed with features for all ability levels including 11 jumps with different landings, hips, tables and mailboxes, 14 rails including a flat bar, flat-down, rainbow, S-rail and crazy double barrel. Then there's Mini-Mav which is a slightly scaled down 250-foot-long minipipe version of Mavericks with 10-foot walls for beginner riders. The Beehive at Rough Rider Basin is a fun park just for the kiddies.
Out of Bounds - Some hot spots in town include The Tap House, Steamboat Smokehouse and The Old Town Pub. Check out Chaps in the Steamboat Grand for a really exciting Western-theme bar and grill with live entertainment. 3 Saddles, the Old Town Pub and Mahogany Ridge have great après-ski. Right in town is a building that many visitors and locals spend all their free time in. The main floor has Wired which is an Internet cafe by day and a martini bar by night. Lupo's on the second storey is the best sports bar in the area.
Hangout & Hookup - You can make reservations for all sorts of activities through Steamboat Central Reservations or Windwalker Premier Tours where you can book dogsled rides, snowmobile touring, tubing, ice skating, ice climbing, indoor climbing, horseback riding, indoor tennis, and hot-air ballooning. For real winter automotive fun you have to check out the Bridgestone Winter Driving School with full lessons on a specially-built and very slick course. If you want the deepest powder cat skiing and boarding in the area Steamboat Powdercats is the place to go. Runs vary up to 1,600 vertical feet and in steepness up to an eye-opening 45 degrees. Strawberry Park Hot Springs is the best place to go skinny dipping in some wonderful natural warm mineral springs. If your modesty won't let you drop your drawers, Steamboat Health and Recreation Center has lockers, workout rooms, hot springs pools, lap pools and a huge waterslide.
The Deal - Yampa Valley Airport at Hayden, 23 miles away from Steamboat, has all the major rental car agencies plus Delta, United, American, Continental, and Northwest nonstop flights from various major cities. Alpine Taxi & Limo and Storm Mountain Express can get you to Steamboat from Yampa Valley Hayden or Denver International. If you're driving yourself, from Denver, I-70 west through the Ike Tunnel to exit 205 at Silverthorne, north on Hwy. 9 to Kremmling, then west on Hwy. 40 over Rabbit Ears Pass to the resort. You may not want a car since Steamboat has a great free bus system between town and ski area running every 20 minutes.
