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Steamboat Rock is a rock formation in Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, set amid the park’s distinctive red sandstone scenery. Easily accessible by paved road, it became a longtime favorite stop for photographs. When it was privately owned, tourists climbed onto the formation to take pictures of it and nearby Balanced Rock. That access later ended, and climbing is now prohibited. Evidence of the earlier visitor experience still remains, however: although the handrails were removed in the 1970s, the stairs that once ran up the rock’s spine are still visible.
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