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<br /> <br />Figure 12. A Major Motel Complex in the Flood Plain <br />of walton Creek <br /> <br />steamboat Springs is on u.s. Highway 40, the main surface artery in <br />the region. The community is also served by the Denver and ~o <br />Grande Western Railroad and the Continental Trailways Bus Line. <br />Regional airlines maintain daily passenger and air cargo flights to <br />the airports at Steamboat Springs, and Hayden, which is 25 miles to <br />the west. <br /> <br />Steamboat Springs is situated on the floor and immediately adjoining <br />foothills of the Yampa River Valley. The upper drainage areas of <br />the streams under study, which comprise segments of the Elkhead <br />Mountains, the Park Range, and the White River Plateau, are typically <br />steep and inaccessible high tablelands and agglomerations of jagged <br />peaks and sharp spires composed entirely of rock. Between these <br />extremes, rounded knob mountains constitute much of the watershed <br />divides. In general, the primary mountain ranges break up into <br />mountain peaks and rows of smaller peaks, ridges, and hills. The <br />extremely varied topography of the region is the result of erosion, <br /> <br />9 <br />