Since the earliest settlers, Routt County has seen five historic newspapers published, the Steamboat Pilot, Routt County Sentinel, Routt County Republican, Oak Creek Times, and the Yampa Leader.

In 2006, the very first edition of the Steamboat Pilot was found in a Crawford family's, Steamboat Springs first settler's, home. The Crawford family asked the Bud Werner Memorial Library to digitize the newspapers and make them available online. The Library, in partnership with the Tread of Pioneers Museum, Routt County Museum and Heritage Fund, Yampa Valley Community Foundation, Dolph Simons Family Foundation, and countless individual donors who donated in memory of Dee Richards, former Managing Editor for the Pilot and local historian, raised the necessary funds to see all of Routt County's historic newspapers digitized up to 1923.

The digitized newspapers are available on the Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection website, 24/7, and can be searched across multiple publishers and issues for free. The Bud Werner Memorial Library carries the microfilm of all of these newspapers until they ceased publication, or in the case of the Steamboat Pilot & Today newspaper, up to present day.

Newspaper	Dates Available Online	Area Served	Ceased Publication
Routt County Sentinel	Oct. 5, 1900 - Feb. 3, 1922	Routt County	Feb. 22, 1924
Pilot or Steamboat Pilot	July 31, 1885 - Dec. 12, 1923	Steamboat Springs & Routt County	Still in Publication
Routt County Republican	Jan. 31, 1908 - May 20, 1921	Hayden & West Routt County	May 20, 1921
Oak Creek Times	Jun. 25, 1908 - Oct. 7, 1922	Oak Creek & Soutt Routt County	Oct. 17, 1929
Yampa Leader	Jun. 6, 1903 - Apr. 6, 1923	Yampa & South Routt County	Dec. 17, 1926