Buffalo Pass is one of a relative handful of places in the Colorado Rockies where the general public can drive 15 minutes outside a major resort town, unload a couple of snowmobiles and use them as shuttles to access seemingly endless powder skiing runs.

However, the popularity of Buffalo Pass, in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest outside of Steamboat Springs has resulted in management headaches for local U.S. Forest Service officials in the form of vehicles overflowing a substantial parking lot.

We understand there are snowmobilers who do not pair that sport with skis. Just as there are skiers who don’t take part in motorized recreation, who also enjoy the snow on Buffalo Pass. But we are under the impression it was the advent of powerful sleds that can carry three adults and a ski rack that was the game-changer on Buffalo Pass.

Read more at Steamboat Today.