Welcome Home: Friends of YVRTA Is Online
It has been a long time coming, but we’re proud to finally have a home on the web. Welcome to friendsofyvrta.org.
If you’ve followed our work over the past year–from a small group of volunteers, to campaign events and Ballots and Brews nights, to board meetings and council sessions, to an 81% yes vote across all six jurisdictions–we hope this new site feels familiar. And if you are just arriving, come on in. There’s plenty to catch up on.
How we got here
Friends of YVRTA is a small volunteer group of neighbors who believe more transportation options benefit everyone. We are not the YVRTA Board, and we are not a government agency. We track YVRTA's work, review agendas, participate in Yampa Valley campaigns, show up at community events, connect with partner organizations across the valley, and help ensure community voices are heard.
None of this would exist without the work that came before us. Long before Friends of YVRTA formed, the RTA Formation Committee, staff, and elected officials from all six jurisdictions-Steamboat Springs, Craig, Hayden, Oak Creek, Yampa, and Routt County-spent years negotiating the intergovernmental agreement, crafting ballot language, and making the case to their communities. In November 2025, voters affirmed that effort with 81% support across the region. This site is the latest rung on a long ladder.
What you'll find here
You will find our newsletter-the same kind of updates many of you have been receiving for months-now with a permanent home and an easier way to subscribe. You’ll also find recent posts, including the Environmental Leadership award announcement in January; the banking RFQ and service-planning notes in February; the March board meeting recap; and our April update covering the 2026 budget public hearing and the executive director search.
There’s an About page describing who we are, along with a short FAQ explaining how a Colorado Regional Transportation Authority works and what this one is designed to do.
The site is new, and it will grow. If there is something you’d like to see, let us know.
What's next
The YVRTA Board is settling into its first full year of work, and the next several months will help shape the authority's first decade. We’ll be tracking the executive director hire, the 2026 budget public hearing and adoption, early service-planning discussions, and other key decisions as they unfold. Through it all, Friends of YVRTA will keep showing up–at meetings and around kitchen tables, in newsletters and at neighborhood events– working to ensure community input reaches the board from every corner of the region. If you want to follow along, this is the place.
Thanks, and see you out there
Thank you to the 9,400 voters across all six jurisdictions who made YVRTA a reality. Thank you to the Formation Committee, the six regional governments, and the partner organizations who laid the groundwork long before we got involved. And thank you to the neighbors who showed up - at board meetings, in letters, and around kitchen tables - to make this something worth joining. And special thanks, too, to our contributors. You know who you are.
Subscribe if you haven't already. Share this with a neighbor who cares about how the Yampa Valley moves. Let us know what you’d like to see covered, or which groups we should connect with next. And if you can make it, we’ll see you at the next YVRTA Board meeting on Monday, May 18, at Hayden Town Hall (4-6 p.m.).
