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Windsor Lake frozen and snow-covered in winter, red sandstone riprap on the near shore and the town’s houses, bare trees and grain elevator along the far one

Weld and Larimer counties, Colorado

Windsor

An independent guide to Windsor, Colorado: the lake and Boardwalk Park, Main Street, the Poudre River Trail, and what it’s like to move to a sugar-beet town that doubled.

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This week in Windsor

What’s on

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Eat, drink, wander

Where to go

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The Cache la Poudre River at Windsor in summer, cottonwoods on both banks and a park shelter beyond

TrailPoudre River, south Windsor

Poudre River Trail

Twenty-one miles of wide paved trail along the Cache la Poudre from Island Grove Park in Greeley to Highway 392 at Windsor, with the main Windsor trailhead at Eastman Park and a link west to Larimer County's River Bluffs Open Space.

Main Park in Windsor in autumn, big cottonwoods and maples turning over the lawn and the playground beyond

ParkLocust Street, by Town Hall

Main Park

The old town park under big trees just south of Town Hall: playground, pickleball and basketball courts, three shelters with grills, restrooms, and cornhole, foosball and ping pong for the picnic crowd.

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The Windsor Milling and Elevator Company building at 301 Main Street in August 2012, its white elevator and brick mill under reconstruction

History ·

Windsor history: a halfway house, a sugar factory, a tornado and a town that doubled

A stage stop halfway between Greeley and Fort Collins, a railroad in 1882, a beet factory that ran 60 years, Kodak on the same ground, the costliest tornado in Colorado's history, a mill burned and rebuilt, and a town of 18,644 that became 32,716 in a decade. The short history of Windsor, Colorado, with sources.

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The Cache la Poudre River at Windsor in early summer, slow brown water between cottonwood banks with a green-roofed park shelter beyond

Families ·

Windsor with kids: the lake, two pools, the library and the river trail

Where to take children in Windsor, Colorado: Boardwalk Park and the swim beach on Windsor Lake, the rec center's lazy river and the summer pool at Chimney Park, the library's storytimes, Eastman Park and the Poudre River Trail, and the free museums on the lake shore.

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Moving here

Thinking of making Windsor home?

Schools, commutes, what the housing market looks like, and what nobody tells you until you live here.

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