The Town of Hayden is a home rule municipality located in Routt County, Colorado, United States.

The town sits along U.S. Highway 40 in the Yampa River Valley between Craig and Steamboat Springs.

The Denver and Salt Lake Railway reached Hayden by 1916, and the rail line continues on today as part of the Union Pacific Railroad.

[9] Historically a center of coal mining and agriculture,[10] it consists today of a small cluster of homes and businesses.

At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total area of 2,098 acres (8.490 km2), all of it land.

[3] The Town of Hayden has a Humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb), with warm summers, cold winters with heavy snow, and equal precipitation year-round.