Steamboat Springs Vacation Planning
Steamboat Springs Winter Events
Date: November 21 - 25, 2012
Scholarship Day marks the first day of the season with revenues from the day’s specially priced ticket benefiting the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Scholarship Fund. Scholarship Day has raised nearly $740,000 since 1991/92. This fund provides financial support for deserving local children participating in Club programs. In fact, the Winter Sports Club is one of the oldest and most recognized ski clubs in the United States and has named three times as the United States Ski & Snowboard Association’s Club of the Year.
Date: December 8 - 31, 2012
Steamboat Springs offers visitors and locals alike the opportunity to indulge in fun, family-friendly holiday events. From the Merry Main Street Holiday Celebration to the New Year's Eve Torchlight Parade and Fireworks, Steamboat Springs hosts many unique holiday events that will make your visit memorable. With our wide variety of condominiums and townhouses from ecomonical to indulgent, Mountain Resorts is your perfect lodging option for the holidays.
New Years Eve Torchlight Parade & Fireworks Display
Date: December 31, 2012
The Steamboat Ski & Snowboard School treats tourists and locals to spectacular on-snow parades down the mountain lit only by torches. The parades are in celebration of a holiday or local event throughout the season. In conjunction with the torchlight parades, a fireworks display will illuminate the sky providing a perfect ending to the evening.
Date: January 5 - 10, 2013
Steamboat MusicFest--the ONLY festival that brings the finest Texas and Americana music to the snow swept Colorado Rockies for a full week of sport and song. Eighteen bands will perform over the six days in the heart of the Rocky Mountains featuring free après-ski concerts, evening concerts and special engagements throughout the week including over 40 live performances, from an increasingly diverse line up of artists with styles ranging from country to rock, blues to bluegrass, folk and western swing, and everything in between. Six days, 40 bands & one really big tent-don't miss it!
Date: January 11 - 21, 2013
The Steamboat Ski Area celebrates its 50th birthday with special celebrations including birthday cake! Jim Temple, son of a local ranching family, spearheaded the development of the Steamboat Ski Area in response to the growing popularity of the sport. After a brief start, Storm Mountain officially reopened in January 12, 1963 with a double chairlift and an A-frame warming house. The day's cash receipts were $13.75 and the temperature hovered at -25°F. Since that January day in 1963, the Steamboat Ski Area has been treating powderhounds to heaps of Champagne Powder® snow and an experience unlike another other.
Date: January 12 - April 14, 2013
The Steamboat Ski Area will again be rockin’ during its Golden Anniversary season as the Bud Light Rocks the 'Boat Free Music Series returns for the 14th season offering a great mixture of various musical genre. The Rocks the 'Boat series has brought together everything from bluegrass and New Orleans style rhythm & blues to a traditional Irish sound. Past free concerts have included Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Ozomatli, Susan Tedeschi, Gin Blossoms, Joseph Israel, North Mississippi All Stars, Freddy Jones Band, Sister Hazel, Young Dubliners, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Dudes, and The Samples. Click here for more information about the Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series.
Torchlight Parade & Fireworks Display
Date: January 12, 2013
The Steamboat Ski & Snowboard School treats tourists and locals to spectacular on-snow parades down the mountain lit only by torches. The parades are in celebration of a holiday or local event throughout the season. In conjunction with the torchlight parades, a fireworks display will illuminate the sky providing a perfect ending to the evening.
Date: January 21, 2013
It all began 39 years ago when Billy Kidd, Steamboat's Director of Skiing, and Larry Mahan, six-time All-Around World Champion cowboy, decided to invite a few of the ProRodeo stars to Steamboat for a day of skiing. The cowboys had such a great time that the Downhill has become the most popular event of the season with over 100 of the best professional rodeo cowboys competing in the most unique ski rodeo in the country. Sponsored by Bud Light, the Cowboy Downhill is always scheduled to coincide with the National Western Stock Show in Denver and the action busts out of the starting chutes at 1:30pm on Stampede on its new day, Monday, January 21st. Click here for more information about the Cowboy Downhill.
Date: February 6-10, 2013
Beginning as the organizing committee for the first Winter Carnival, the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club (SSWSC) has maintained the Winter Carnival as a service to the community since 1914. The Winter Carnival started as a way to help residents cope with cabin fever during the height of the winter season. The event continues to this day as a way to celebrate winter; as a reason for neighbors to gather; and as an opportunity for everyone to experience a piece of Ski Town USA® history and tradition. Click here for more information about the Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival.
Date: February 8 - 12, 2013
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler-The good times are definitely ready to roll in Ski Town, U.S.A.® when the Steamboat Mardi Gras Festival comes marching in from February 8-12 with free concerts, parades, a Cajun BBQ and beer festival and more. Throughout the celebration, food enthusiasts can enjoy Mardi Gras themed lunch creations across the mountain. The festival culminates on Fat Tuesday with an all-day celebration featuring snow sculpture contest at the chairlifts, restaurant contests, special activities, and plenty of beads to go around.
Torchlight Parade & Fireworks Display
Date: February 14, 2013
The Steamboat Ski & Snowboard School treats tourists and locals to spectacular on-snow parades down the mountain lit only by torches. The parades are in celebration of a holiday or local event throughout the season. In conjunction with the torchlight parades, a fireworks display will illuminate the sky providing a perfect ending to the evening.
Torchlight Parade & Fireworks Display
Date: March 17, 2013
The Steamboat Ski & Snowboard School treats tourists and locals to spectacular on-snow parades down the mountain lit only by torches. The parades are in celebration of a holiday or local event throughout the season. In conjunction with the torchlight parades, a fireworks display will illuminate the sky providing a perfect ending to the evening.
Ski 4 Yellow
Date: March 29 - 30, 2013
Ski 4 Yellow, which raised more than $150,000 during its first two years, returns to the slopes to continue the fight against cancer in Ski Town, U.S.A.® Enjoy a weekend on the slopes with friends, family and a sleuth of Olympians, highlighted by a free live music concert in Gondola Square during the 3rd Annual Ski 4 Yellow event.
Date: April 6 & 13+14, 2013
Soak up the sun, free music and good times from April 6 & 13 - 14 with Steamboat's Springalicious™ Festival. This end of the season party features free concerts by Head for the Hills & Leftover Salmon, as well as events such as the Pool Party Rail Jam, 50th Anniversary Fashion Show, 33rd Annual Cardboard Classic and the 6th Annual Splashdown Pond Skimming Competition. Click here for more information about Springalicious™ 2013.
Date: April 6, 2013
The Annual Cody’s Challenge, a randonee endurance ski race, will be held on Saturday, April 6th across the Steamboat Ski Area. Cody’s Challenge allows participants the unique opportunity to climb, traverse and descend a variety of trails across the mountain under their own power through the use of specialized bindings and skins. The Cody St. John Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in memory of Cody St. John, who was a professional patroller with the Steamboat Ski Area.
Date: April 13, 2013
The Cardboard Classic, Steamboat's traditional rite of spring celebrating over three decades of fun, features homemade crafts constructed only from cardboard, glue, string, water based paint, duct tape and masking tape racing down the face of Headwall to a hysterical finish. The uniqueness and creativity of the race make it an event looked forward to every year. Click here for more information about the 33rd Annual Cardboard Classic.
Date: April 14, 2013
SThe Steamboat Ski Area closes out its 50th Anniversary Season on Sunday, April 14th with special Springalicious Festival events including the finale concert as part of the Bud Light Rocks the Boat Golden Anniversary Free Concert Series, and the SPLASHDOWN Pond Skimming Competition Sunday. Steamboat’s bravest (and maybe craziest) skiers/riders will attempt to cross an ice-cold pond at the base of the mountain, while being judged on distance, outfit creativity, and crowd response. Both events take place at the base of the ski area. Click here for more information about the 6th Annual Splashdown Pond Skimming Competition.
Date: April 14, 2013
The Steamboat Ski Area closes out its 50th Anniversary Season on Sunday, April 14th with special Springalicious Festival events including the finale concert as part of the Bud Light Rocks the Boat Golden Anniversary Free Concert Series.
