Steamboat Springs: Setting A Quiet Pace

What’s the quietest part of your home community to enjoy living? 

“The beauty of nature is best known in waves of stillness and silence.” (Angie Weiland – Crosby)

Steamboat Springs, Colorado once again met us not with excitement, but with a quiet kind of welcome that felt right for us at the time. So our adventure began on day one with an excursion to Steamboat Lake State Park which offered us the ideal place to just”chill” in nature’s solitude. Notable quality time then happened for us during a picnic lunch by the lake. Picture us then admiring the snowy  mountains towering above us, feeling the gentle breeze across the water and inhaling the deep woody aroma of pine trees surrounding this pristinely beautiful location. It wasn’t a dramatic moment but something subtler as if nothing special needed to happen but enjoy nature’s quiet beauty that day.

A similar  kind of solitude carried into the  remaining two days of our Steamboat visit as snow began to move into the valley. Thus I’d take ample time  to observe how my world seemed to slow even further in Steamboat at Fish Creek Falls Park as flakes had drifted down without urgency, layering places I visited in silence. I noted as well that these uplands seemed dimly softened by heavy cloud cover thus becoming part of a quieter scene that asked only to be observed, not conquered.

So given our necessity to be “on the move” traveling cross country, Steamboat Springs became a place where time and distance restraints no longer mattered. It instead offered a us a quiet pause without expectation, a reminder that not every meaningful travel moment comes from striving to do more in the time allotted.