Routt County Digital Archive

Old Town Hot Springs Memory Project
For centuries people have been soaking in the hot water flowing from a hillside overlooking the Yampa River, on the eastern side of present-day Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Heart Spring feeds a collection of pools, now known as the Old Town Hot Springs, but through the years this area has also been called Bath House Springs, Swim Sauna, Steamboat Health and Recreation, or just simply, "The Pool." The Old Town Hot Springs Memory Project is a collection of interviews with people who have long been associated - as employees, Board members, or 'enjoy-ers' - with the iconic downtown Steamboat springs. It is intended to be a collection that continues to grow over time. Black & White Thumbnail Images © of Tread of Pioneers Museum
Three Wire Winter Oral History and Magazine Collections
Between 1976 and 1988 Steamboat Springs High School students captured the oral histories of prominent Routt County citizens and published them in a magazine titled Three Wire Winter. Twenty-four issues went to press before the program ended and the collection was deeded to the Tread of Pioneers Museum. In 2015, the Bud Werner Memorial Library and the Tread of Pioneers Museum partnered to feature Three Wire Winter and its wealth of oral history interviews, magazine articles, photos and other documents through this digital archive.