Yampa

“You can’t escape the fact that he voted for an abortion ban,” Bennet said after a reelection rally at the Yampa River Botanic Park in Steamboat Springs.

Our Cross Mountain tour guide, Erik Glenn, drives us to a high point overlooking the Yampa.

One hundred miles southwest of Anschutz’s wind farm site, the sparkling Yampa River meanders through fields of sagebrush greener and more lush than anything we saw in Wyoming.

Take the Boeddekers: Glenn says it was “devastating” for them to imagine power lines crossing the Yampa River at one of the prettiest spots on their ranch.

The city’s hospital, Yampa Valley Medical Center, is scrambling to find staff as the number of open positions grew from around 25 to 70 in the last few years, said hospital president Soniya Fidler.