Skip to content

Windsor

Guides

The longer reads: Windsor with kids, where to eat, the outdoors, what moving here is like, and how the town got this way. Each says where its facts came from.

Families

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.

History

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.