Northern Colorado Living

I live in a smaller town called Windsor, Colorado, located west of Greeley and East of Fort Collins. When I moved here in 1998 it was a population of 6000, today it is almost 16,000. It still has the small town feel, but the one stop light, one grocery store town that is now gone. We now have several new chain grocery stores, restaurants, and gas stations. I believe we are up to 7 traffic lights.



Windsor still has the small town feel, 4th of July, Memorial day celebrations with fireworks, annual Thanksgiving day early morning runs, and loads of other small town activities. We have 3 elementary schools, 1 junior high and still 1 high school.

There are lots of activities here including miles of walking trails on the Poudre Trail taking you from Greeley to Fort Collins.

One big landmark was the tornado of 2008. I watched it out my window, the hail made the lakes of Water Valley where I live look like they were boiling, as the hail was softball size. The tornado was half a mile wide, it look like a big dust storm to me. It was not loud, because all I could here was the hail. It came and went so fast, but stayed with our town for months. It was so amazing how all the people wanted to help, the football team got together helping people displaced out of their homes and it was so awesome to see the town come together to help others, something you just don't see anymore.

All in all it was a great town to raise kids and great people. There is the oil industry coming in and lots of opportunities coming in and hopefully will reboot this little town.

Today there is a lot of big industry coming in, some of the employers are Vestas, Ice enegy, Noble energy is a new company actively hiring oil pump monitors and fracking monitors. UNC is a very large employer as well.

Climate here in the Northern Colorado is quite dry. Fall is absolutely colorful, oranges, browns, tans. Spring is awesome. I love we actually have 4 seasons here, but fall is by far the most awesome with the aspen trees turning. Glenwood springs is my favorite spot for fall. Elk are everywhere. Hot springs are great and the healing spas of glenwood, all in our back yard for us to enjoy!!!