This airport is a lifesaver in that it started flying in commercial flights. It’s been nice to travel southwest (almost) direct. The planes always park on the runway and you have to walk off, down a ramp, and into the airport which is different and kind of cool… definitely pack a coat or hat for the walk it can be a little brutal 😂 The actual airport is small, there is one place to get food and drinks that is basically a snack bar and then one small restaurant outside of security. The food is what you’d expect. The baggage claim is easy to navigate as it is small and relatively straightforward. The oversized pick up is outside the airport where everyone is getting picked up. The people are generally kind and TSA is efficient. However they do NOT like when you accidentally try to bring hand warmers with you. Make sure you check your bag carefully lol

Nice small airport with hospital associates. Clean restrooms and seating areas. TSA was friendly and pretty efficient. Give yourself extra time during busy ski season. Choice of rental cars can be limited which isn’t too surprising for the size of the airport.

Very small airport. You must exit airplane on Ramp to Tarmac, so dress for cold weather since you can get cold outside. Strangest thing is existing airport have no way to go out unless you exit when your airplane arrives. So don't delay leaving or will get stuck begging security to let you out. Tried out both restaurants, and 3 Wire was not bad, but I did have to exit outside secure area to get there. Employees were kind and helpful. Also, the airport is a long way from Steamboat and closer to Craig, which is not the main destination but women sitting next to me was actually going going to Craig to visit her son but that was very abnormal. Views are nice of mountains during flight so for that and sking is a great destination.

The operations staff at this airport stranded us for 2 hours on the tarmac without pursuing any simple alternatives for us, or helping us with a temporary gate. Update to Owner, 16-Jan-2025: I definitely understand there is more to the story than just waiting. My concern is about the operational response to the situation, and the resultant customer experience. I understand that their could be limitations getting into a designated "gate," per se, for reasons you noted (even if I disagree with them, but so be it). However, note that it wasn't like we were connecting to a gate with a jet bridge, only pulling into a designated space, from which a manual, wheel-up ramp was used to disembark. From there, we walked a short distance outside and then into the terminal. Even if there wasn't a gate for us to arrive to on that flight, it would have been an acceptable solution to maneuver the plane in a safe way near the terminal but not at a "gate", wheel/walk one of the same manual ramps to our aircraft, allow passengers to disembark, and walk and/or take a bus to the terminal. Finally, when ready, the aircraft could have been moved to gate for the subsequent flight. I've done this many times at other airports. However, in this case, despite being a mere 1,000 feet or so from the nearest gate, all passengers were forced to sit on a plane for 2+ hours, only to move a very short distance and disembark in the same wheel-up ramp and again walk, outside, to the terminal. All this being said, it was a combination of your and UA's decision to make, and it was decided that there was no other solution than to make us wait for 2+ hours. It is your decision to make, but looking forward, if the only operational solution in these cases is to make passengers wait for up to 3 hours for a gate to open, I would prefer to avoid the risk of this situation happening again. I understand it's a complex situation to run an airport, especially when there are weather delays, but I feel that there was a simple solution in this case that was not pursued (or not planned for, such as creating policies and procedures and approvals for overflow gates, whatever the terminology may be), creating a difficult and unpleasant situation for passengers.

Showed up, find out my flights delayed and no one is here. So I wait, nice lady comes up and helps me With the rebook and helped me get seats I wanted. After a few moments she told me she’s been here since 8 last night and she’s already clocked out. She is amazing and stayed 30 more minutes until united was staffed up. Thank you a millions times. Moments like this stick with people. Keep her around. 6am 5/26/25 shorter woman with a wonderful accent.

All airport staff friendly and nice. It’s a great airport to have in this location. Unfortunately, flights are frequently delayed. So if flying on United to Denver, be sure to have a long layover. I have missed my connecting flight twice in the last week flying out of there.