The Steamboat Pilot & Today is an American newspaper serving Routt County, Colorado, and owned by Swift Communications. It is a free tabloid published daily. As of 2011, the Steamboat Pilot & Today has been named the top newspaper in its circulation class eight times in nine years by the Colorado Press Association.

History

The Pilot was a newspaper established in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and first printed on July 31, 1885, by James Hoyle. It merged with The Routt County Sentinel in 1927, and later with The Oak-Creek Times-Leader in 1944. Jack Kent Cooke acquired The Pilot in 1988. Steamboat Today was first published as a daily tabloid newspaper on August 21, 1989, as an accompaniment to The Pilot. In 1994, WorldWest acquired the papers from the Cooke estate. WorldWest was owned by the Simons family, which also owned the Lawrence Journal-World. In 2008, ExploreSteamboat.com, the website of Explore Steamboat affiliated magazine, was nominated for the EPPY Awards as Best Regional Magazine–Affiliated Web Site. In June 2016, the newspaper was acquired by Swift Communications. In May 2024, the paper announced it will cease publishing a print edition on Mondays.