This is the spring where Steamboat Springs got its name.
In the early 1800s the spring, which was a geyser at the time, used to make a chugging sound like a steamboat and so French trappers named the area Steamboat Springs. In 1908 blasting for the railroad that runs just to the right of this photo filled in the spring and surrounding underground source such that there was no more chugging and no more geyser.
But it’s a good story and the town kept the name.