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Steamboat Springs Bob Adams Field is a small public-use airfield serving Steamboat Springs in Routt County, Colorado, at a field elevation of 6,877 feet. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and is a useful mountain-flying destination for pilots visiting the Yampa Valley region.
Steamboat Springs Bob Adams Field (KSBS) is a small, non-towered general aviation airfield serving the town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Sitting at a high elevation of 6,877 feet, it is representative of the mountain airfields found throughout the Rocky Mountain region, and its single runway and modest facilities make it a straightforward but demanding destination for visiting pilots who must account for density altitude and terrain in the surrounding valley.
The airfield lies at coordinates 40.5163, -106.866 in Routt County, Colorado, in the vicinity of the town of Steamboat Springs. It operates as an uncontrolled field, with Denver Center providing area radar and communications coverage overhead and a remote communications outlet available for contact with Denver Radio.
Bob Adams Field has a single physical runway, 14/32, with a hard surface and runway lighting. The database lists a length of 4,448 feet for runway 14 and 3,844 feet for runway 32. There is no instrument landing system associated with either runway end.
The field is served by an AWOS-3 automated weather observation system on 118.325 MHz. Denver Center can be reached on 120.475 MHz, and Denver Radio operates a remote communications outlet on 122.2 MHz for flight service contact. The common traffic advisory frequency and unicom is 122.8 MHz, used for self-announced traffic advisories in the absence of an operating control tower.
Steamboat Springs Bob Adams Field continues to operate as an uncontrolled general aviation airfield, with weather information provided by an on-field AWOS-3 station and traffic coordinated by pilots on the 122.8 MHz unicom frequency.