Fort Collins is the home of the Colorado State University and the New Belgium brewery and several others. It's also home to one of the best places to boulder in the world, according to Rock and Ice Magazine, Hoorsetooth Reservoir.
The city itself has about 130,000 residents, 40 parks within the city, over 20 miles of walking and bike paths and 3 golf course, but you probably aren't that interested in that. Fort Collins is located just minutes from the Poudre Canyon, Horsetooth Reservoir, Carter Lake, etc.
If you are looking at relocating the major employers, include Colorado State University, Poudre School District, Hewlett Packard, Poudre Valley Health Systems, Eastman Kodak, Larimer County, Agilent Technologies and the City of Fort Collins.
Getting There
Like Colorado Springs, if you can't find Fort Collins go back to bed! Fort Collins is 70 miles North of Denver on I-25. Once you get there and you need help to find all the brew pubs, then hopefully this map will help.
Resources
Big City Burrito on the SW corner of Mulberry and College, is a great place to tank up. If that is not your scene, check out Sonterra Grill in downtown, has good Mexican in a more upscale setting (Tejon St a few doors down from Bourbon Street).
For NY Style Pizza, check out Borelli Brothers, on the corner of Platte and Nevada.
The Pickle Barrel has great sandwiches and also serves drinks. Located a half a block west of College Avenue on the north side of Laurel St. The Mountain Shop is located a half a block further west of the Pickle Barrel and a half a block north.
If a brew pub or "brewery tour" is more your thing, you have arrived in heaven! There is the New Belgium Brewery, where you have great beer combined with wacky folk, located on 500 Linden street. They support a lot of climbing events as well so that puts on top of the list! Odells is another brewery located om 800 East Lincoln Avenue. However, for tradition pub food and beer try Coopersmith's at 5 Old Town Square.
More to come, but I've got a lot of sampling to catch up on first!
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Fort Collins:
Just so you don't get the wrong idea, I haven't climbed this route. I don't even want to climb this route. Maybe someday I'll rig a toprope, but I doubt it.The most famous route at Rotary Park, yet climbed by relatively few. This problem is on the west face of the Mental Block. The horrific sloping topout is easily visible to the north of the main Rotary Park area. New improved trails lead to all the major rocks at Rotary Park.The pinch hold is obvious when you're there. Grip it with your ...[more]Browse More Classics in CO
Is there a place i can park and camp for free close to town/ horsetooth/ the 420's? I have a loft in my car and i have been commuting from Denver for work so i figured i would just crash up here instead of making the drive all the time. PLus- i could hit up horsetooth after work and not need to spend my time behind the wheel...
Suggestions anyone?
Also- where would be the best spot for some after work bouldering- aka- one that is not roasting in the afternoon sun?
New Poudre Canyon Guidebook Donates All Profits to Craig Luebben's Family
Poudre Canyon Rock Climbing Guide, by Craig Luebben, Bennett Scott and Cameron Cross is now available for advance purchase from the publisher, Fixed Pin Publishing.
This project was started almost 20 years ago with the publication of a Greyrock climbing guidebook (1991) by Craig Luebben, who many climbers know as the inventor of the Big Bro and the prolific author of instructional climbing books. During his time in Fort Collins, Craig contributed many first ascents to the canyon. With Craig’s support, Ben Scott and Cameron Cross of the Northern Colorado Climbers Coalition (NC3) spearheaded the effort to release this book online and free of charge to the climbing community. Tragically, on August 9th, 2009, Craig died in the North Cascades while training for an AMGA guide’s exam. While Craig could not be a part of the final stages of the process, the NC3 released Poudre Canyon Routes Select as a free download last fall.
Almost a year after Craig's death, his contributions to the climbing community are helping fulfill a dream he himself never realized - seeing his daughter Giulia attend college. 100% of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Craig Luebben Memorial Fund, and will specifically be invested in a CollegeInvest 529 Plan for his daughter.
Additionally, when the book is available in local retail outlets this November, three local shops will be donating their share of the profits to the fund: Bent Gate Mountaineering, Neptune Mountaineering and Wilderness Exchange.
Thanks to a generous donation for the printing costs, when you buy this book directly from the publisher or from one of these supportive local shops, every penny you spend will go into Giulia's college fund.
Fort Collins is an awesome town. There really is a lot to do and it is an awesome community. You mentioned a lot about the things to do, but it's important to also note that the town is full of economic healthiness to be had. Because it was named number 1 place to live, there are tons of opportunities in the town. I read a lot about it on Apartments in Fort Collins.
I pretty much think the town is great, and it's a great place to raise a family or to live your outdoor life. Although we could be closer to the mountains. Fort Collins is about 2 hours from the mountains for the skiers, but we have all of the swimming at Horsetooth and the biking up there as well. Gotta love old town as well. Go Fort Collins!
I'm looking for skiers! I understand this is a climbing info website, but if any of you athletes in Fort Collins are also skiers, I'm looking for some ideas for good ski rates and places to check out! Ski Clubs?? Group Trips? I'm here for a month and looking to get in the most skiing possible!
The restaurants section is half correct and half not. Big City Burrito, Pickle Barrel and the breweries are in FoCo. The Sonterra grill and Borelli brothers are not. For good sit down mexican try Los Tarascos on College just north of Mulberry, ( a few doors up from Big City Burrito). For great pizza & wings check out the locals favorite Pizza Casbah located on Laurel just west of College. Also sadly the Mountain Shop is now CLOSED!!!! For all your climbing (and any outdoor equipment) needs try Jax on north College (~1 mile north of Old Town on the east side). Also REI is on College on the south side of town between Horsetooth and Harmony.
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