Seriously? That's the place?
This has been a very good thread, and your posts have contributed very much, I'm in agreement with most of your thoughts on the situation.
In the 60s there were a lot of terrible abuses by law enforcement toward long hairs, as a hippie drifter myself in those days I paid attention to those things and it shook my faith in the system.
Decades later I would like to think that a community can figure out a way to influence outsiders and travelers without crossing the line.
I think so. Photo is from here.
The "970-879" phone number in the linked site above is correct for Steamboat Springs.
I know that private property is private property, trespassing is trespassing, and theft is theft, but this place looks like it belongs in the Haiti slums. If the garbage thieves were looking for food in the dumpster from this place, they must have been desperate.
The sentence these guys received is obscene.