The Yampa River in Steamboat Springs, August, 2018. The Yampa River in northwestern Colorado has closed again. Ongoing drought has drastically reduced water levels. Colorado Park and Wildlife ...

CRAIG — The second-ever call on the Yampa River was lifted Thursday morning after a trio of water providers announced the release of up to 1,500 acre-feet of water from Elkhead Reservoir to support ...

Heat has forced Steamboat Springs officials to close off access to the Yampa River for recreation to reduce harm to aquatic insects and fish. The closure began Wednesday after city officials recorded ...

What was once a horse pasture is now a 6-acre botanic garden filled with native plants, ponds, berms and more than 50 gardens, including a kids garden that features a playhouse and an amphitheater for ...

Shell Oil, seeking to buttress its oil-shale plans, has filed for the first major water right on northwest Colorado’s Yampa River — the last river basin in the state with unappropriated water. Shell’s ...

The small but mighty Yampa River supports many human uses, from agriculture to tap water, while remaining wild and free. What will happen to the people, economies and wildlife that have depended on ...

Ski towns in Colorado are not just an outdoorsman’s paradise in the winter—most of them also have a range of things to do in ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – To protect the health of the Yampa River ecosystem, the city of Steamboat Springs and Colorado Parks and Wildlife have implemented a closure of the river from Steamboat to the ...

The deskbound can now explore one of the West's last wild rivers without leaving their chairs, thanks to a new project that uses Google Street View technology on a float trip down Colorado's Yampa ...

The state has closed a heavily fished stretch of the Yampa River south of Steamboat Springs in an emergency move to protect the river’s health and fish from low streamflows. The mandatory closure, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Yampa River, one of the West's last wild rivers, begins in the mountains of Colorado and ...

Friends of the Yampa is seeking participants for its first Dutch Oven Showdown, according to a Monday news release. The Nov.