# Sell Mineral Rights in Routt County, CO | Berlin Royalties > Sell Routt County, CO mineral rights: Tow Creek Niobrara oil near Steamboat Springs and Hayden. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/colorado/routt-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Colorado · Routt County ## Sell your Routt County mineral rights. Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Oak Creek: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Routt County, Tow Creek and the Yampa Valley's small Niobrara oil fields. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Routt County is better known for skiing and coal than for oil, but the Tow Creek field west of Steamboat has pumped Niobrara oil since 1924 and a dozen wells still do. The minerals here are tangled: coal reservations, railroad grants and ranch splits going back a century, so the question is often not what the wells pay but whether you actually own the oil under a deed that only mentions coal. **What produces here.** ECMC production reports for June 2026 show Routt County at 2,327 barrels of oil and 2,992 Mcf of gas from 12 wells reporting production, nearly all of it Niobrara oil. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Beeman Oil and Gas, Robert L. Bayless Producer, Peakview Operating and Wyman Inc. No drilling permits or development plans for Routt County appeared in the ECMC's active permit data as of November 2026, so what you own here is legacy stripper production or non-producing acreage, not a drilling prospect. Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with [inherited mineral rights in Colorado](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/colorado/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Niobrara oil Fractured Niobrara shale oil in the Tow Creek field, discovered in 1924 on the Tow Creek anticline west of Steamboat Springs, and a few other small pools worked today by Beeman Oil and Gas. ### Coal country minerals Much of Routt County's severed mineral estate was carved up for coal around Hayden and Oak Creek, and the deeds that did it decide whether oil and gas went with the coal or stayed with the surface. Counties ## Communities we see in Routt County title Steamboat Springs Hayden Oak Creek Yampa Milner Wherever your tract sits in Routt County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/), or start with how to [sell Colorado mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/colorado/). ### Inherited Colorado minerals? Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: [inherited mineral rights in Colorado, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/colorado/). [What Colorado mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/colorado/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Colorado royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/colorado/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Colorado mineral owner's guide Everything a Colorado owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up. [Read the Colorado guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/colorado/) [Every oil and gas operator in Colorado](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/colorado/), with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything. Questions ## Straight answers for Routt County owners What are mineral rights worth in Routt County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Routt County that ranges widely, so county averages mislead. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. My parent died owning Colorado minerals. How do they get into my name? A decree of heirship or a personal representative's deed from the probate, recorded in the county where the minerals sit, is what moves inherited Colorado minerals; a will alone does not. Colorado also allows a beneficiary deed, which lets a living owner name who takes the minerals at death without probate, so check whether one was recorded before assuming an estate must be opened. We read the chain free and tell you what is missing. How does Colorado severance tax hit my royalty? Colorado's severance tax is graduated from 2 percent to 5 percent of gross income, with a credit for the ad valorem property tax paid at the well and a stripper exemption for oil wells producing under 15 barrels a day. Operators normally withhold it, and royalty owners file their own Colorado severance returns. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Routt County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Routt County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day. In a hurry? [Text a photo of a royalty check stub](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? 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