Fort Collins
— — the old brick town the river still runs through.
Not only on a wall.
“An old college and brewery town on the Cache la Poudre, where the Colorado plains run up against the Front Range and stop. Sandstone blocks on Mountain Avenue, a tree-lined Old Town square that Walt Disney's lead designer studied before drawing Main Street, and a reservoir behind a granite ridge that holds the late summer light long after the rest of town has gone blue.
Fort Collins, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Fort Collins sits in Larimer County at the foot of the Front Range, about 105 km north of Denver and 70 km south of the Wyoming line, at roughly 1,525 metres of elevation. The Cache la Poudre River, the only federally designated Wild and Scenic River in Colorado, runs out of the canyon to the west and through the north edge of town. The city was founded as a US Army post in 1864 and named for William O. Collins. Colorado State University, chartered in 1870 as the state's land-grant college, anchors the south side of Old Town and now enrolls about 33,000 students.
Old Town Fort Collins is a compact district of late-19th-century sandstone and red-brick storefronts laid out around College Avenue and Linden Street, much of it built between the 1880s and the 1910s. Harper Goff, the Disney designer who later worked on the Nautilus and the Jungle Cruise, grew up here and is widely cited as having drawn on Old Town's proportions for the Main Street, U.S.A. of Disneyland in 1955. The Avery House on Mountain Avenue, finished in 1879 by the early banker Franklin Avery, still stands as a museum.
Horsetooth Reservoir, a 26 km-long water-supply lake behind the granite ridge that gives the town its western skyline, is the most-walked spot in the county and the steadiest sunset view. The brewery district along Linden Street holds New Belgium, founded in 1991, and Odell, founded in 1989, both still independent at the time of writing and both running public tours. The Lincoln Center on Magnolia hosts the symphony, the OpenStage repertory, and travelling shows. Average July highs run about 30°C; January overnight lows sit near -10°C, and the snow that falls usually clears within a day.