Longmont

Guides

The longer reads: Longmont with kids, and how the town got this way. Each says where its facts came from.

Families

Families · October 5, 2026

Longmont with kids: the museum, the leisure pool, the library, the lakes and the greenway

Where to take children in Longmont, Colorado: the museum's new DreamLab gallery, storytimes at the library, the Recreation Center's leisure pool and the summer activity pools, the Ice Pavilion, splash pads, McIntosh Lake, Union Reservoir, the St. Vrain Greenway and the County's farm museum.

History

Main Street at 3rd Avenue in downtown Longmont on a late-winter day, the 1881 Dickens Opera House on the right corner and a three-storey red-brick block across the street, looking north up the 300 block under bare trees.

History · October 5, 2026

Longmont history: a Chicago colony, a sugar town, its own power plant, a flood and a city of nearly 100,000

A stage stop called Burlington, a Chicago colony's square-mile town of 1871, a pea cannery and a sugar factory, a city that built its own power plant in 1912, a Klan council voted out, IBM, the 2013 flood, a fiber network and a city of 98,885. The short history of Longmont, Colorado, with sources.