Weld County, Colorado
Erie
An independent guide to Erie, Colorado: Briggs Street, the trails, the coal-town history, and what it’s like to move to a town that doubled.
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
This week in Erie
What’s on
Eat, drink, wander
Where to go
Restaurant$$$Historic downtown, Briggs Street
24 Carrot Bistro
Farm-to-table New American on Briggs Street: a seasonal menu, weekend brunch, and craft cocktails with housemade ingredients.
ParkDowntown, Kattell Street
Coal Creek Park
The downtown park on Kattell Street: Maddie's butterfly playground, a splash pad in summer, an ice rink in winter, and the site of Brewfest and the Parade of Lights.
TrailCoal Creek corridor, north to south
Coal Creek Trail and Open Space
The regional trail along Coal Creek through 400 acres of Town open space, about 10 miles of concrete, soft-surface and crusher-fine trail from Reliance Park south to the Boulder County trail toward Lafayette, Louisville and Superior.
ParkPowers Street, by the Community Center
Erie Community Park
The 49-acre park beside the Community Center: ballfields, three playgrounds, the Revolution pump track, a skate park, a sledding hill and a walking loop.
TrailNorth side, County Road 5
Erie Singletrack at Sunset Open Space
3.15 miles of purpose-built mountain-bike singletrack with rollers, jumps and tabletops, graded beginner to advanced, on 50 acres of Town open space with Front Range views.
Coffee & Sweets$Historic downtown, Briggs Street
FOX•DOG Coffee
Family-owned independent coffee shop at Briggs and Moffat: espresso, burritos, quiche and baked goods, and the room where downtown works in the morning.
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History ·
Erie history: the greatest coal town in Colorado
A homestead named for a Pennsylvania hometown, a railroad spur, eighty years of underground coal, a schoolhouse that became Town Hall, and a farm town that grew by two-thirds in a decade. The short history of Erie, with each claim resting on a source.
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Moving here
Thinking of making Erie home?
Schools, commutes, what the housing market looks like, and what nobody tells you until you live here.
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