Routt County is a large county in northwest Colorado, encompassing 2,368 square miles of the Elk and Yampa River valleys and the Park Range and Elkhead Mountains. It is bordered by the state of Wyoming to the north, Jackson and Grand Counties to the east…

Solandt Memorial Hospital in Hayden opened in 1923 as the first modern hospital in northwest Colorado. It operated as a hospital for more than forty years—for much of that time as the only accredited hospital in the region—before closing in the 1960s…