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
BarHistoric downtown, Briggs Street
The Old Mine
Hard cidery and artisan pizza pub in the 1889 Davis building on Briggs Street, with trivia on Tuesdays, live music Wednesdays and Sundays and a monthly bluegrass jam.
VenueCounty Road 3¼, east of town
Anderson Farms
The working farm east of town whose Fall Festival runs late September to Halloween: corn maze, pumpkin patch, barrel trains, and Terror in the Corn after dark.
VenueHistoric downtown, Briggs Street
Historic downtown walking tour
Self-guided walk past more than a dozen historic sites in the old coal-town downtown: the 1889 Davis building, the 1930 City Hall, the Lincoln School and the miners' memorial.
- 24 Carrot Bistro Restaurant
- Coal Creek Park Park
- Coal Creek Trail and Open Space Trail
- Erie Community Park Park
- Erie Singletrack at Sunset Open Space Trail
- FOX•DOG Coffee Coffee & Sweets
- Piripi Restaurant
- Arapahoe Ridge Park Park
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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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