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In a head-to-head battle, Steamboat Springs sunk Durango on<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t easy. Steamboat Springs just slinked by Durango with a 4,469 to 4,389 vote in Round 3 of the \u201cmountain town\u201d category. Steamboat Springs, about two hours north of Vail, will now face off against Jackson, Wyoming, in the final round.<\/p>\n
Yet, while Durango licks its wounds, the city can take solace in the fact that in previous rounds it thwarted Waterbury, Vermont \u2013 home to Ben & Jerry\u2019s Ice Cream \u2013 and Waynesville, North Carolina, a town whose downtown district \u201cFrog Level\u201d is on the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n
The third round was not kind to Colorado cities, eliminating all towns in the running aside from Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s Front Range capital city, Denver, lost to the overcast, hipster-haven Seattle, Washington, in the \u201cculture\u201d category. And Gunnison fell to Bend, Oregon in the \u201criver\u201d bracket.<\/p>\n
However, not all Durangoans were down-hearted by the city\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI strongly encourage everyone to NOT vote for Durango!,\u201d Randall Patrick McMurphy commented on a previous story.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would we want more publicity to draw in even more tourists and implants and make everything worse??\u201d<\/p>\n