A new, two-story, 500-student Pre-kindergarten through 8th grade, school located on a 70-acre site west of Steamboat Springs.  It is the district’s first new school since 1981 and includes an artificial turf field, separate, age-appropriate play areas for the elementary and middle school students, and a large common area for eating and gathering.

Landmark worked through the evaluation of alternative Water Districts suppliers and eventual annexation into the Steamboat II Metropolitan District based on legal access, fire flow modeling and system pressure evaluation. The ¾-mile of new water system connected 2 detached neighborhoods, substantially improving water quality by reducing the reliance upon an infiltration system.

The school’s internal road system had to balance neighborhood connectivity, implementation of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s adopted access control plan, and geometries that considered parent staging, designated bus loading, deliveries, and event parking.  The external road improvements included reconstructing a county collector road to introduce a turn lane and a signalized intersection on State Highway US 40.  Landmark also designed a new roundabout, to allow for queuing within a confined area. This roundabout is only the second within the County and required substantial grade modifications, wetland permitting and geometries to accommodate school buses and large semi-trucks supporting the area’s agricultural activities.