If I can get a word in edgeways between the AOPA sniping . . . .
The Steamboat Springs being referred to is not the little airport at the town, but is Steamboat Airport (Yampa Valley at Hayden). Identifier HDN. About 10,000 feet of asphalt runway and in a typical ski season weekend day, it does take 146, 737-300, 737-800, A320 and 757 from all the big name airlines. It takes annual movements 4226 RPT, 304 air taxi, 3898 local GA, 7924 itinerant GA. They run a 24hr UNICOM, without FSS or tower. And there is good radar coverage from Denver of the airspace around the airport.