Inside Longmont — guides https://insidelongmontco.com/ An independent guide to Longmont, Colorado: Main Street, the St. Vrain Greenway, McIntosh Lake, the breweries, and what it’s like to live in a city of nearly 100,000 between Boulder and the interstate. en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Longmont history: a Chicago colony, a sugar town, its own power plant, a flood and a city of nearly 100,000 https://insidelongmontco.com/articles/longmont-history/ https://insidelongmontco.com/articles/longmont-history/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT 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. History Longmont with kids: the museum, the leisure pool, the library, the lakes and the greenway https://insidelongmontco.com/articles/longmont-with-kids/ https://insidelongmontco.com/articles/longmont-with-kids/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT 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. Families