THE LARIMER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests setting.
Larimer County has 2,595.7 square miles of land in Colorado. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Larimer County: Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests, Crystalline Subalpine Forests, Foothill Shrublands, among others.
Steep mountains rise through distinct vegetation bands, from lower grass and shrub country to conifers and alpine terrain. Elevation is a defining difference across Southern Rocky Mountain landscapes.
Regional context: Southern Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Larimer County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests36.5%
- Crystalline Subalpine Forests20.5%
- Foothill Shrublands12.4%
- Front Range Fans11.6%
- Alpine Zone5.8%
High Plains in Larimer County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Wyoming Basin in Larimer County
A broad dry basin is interrupted by hills and low mountains. Grassland and shrubland dominate the regional setting between the more heavily forested surrounding ranges.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Larimer County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Larimer County, including Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Larimer County by land and water
The Census records 38.2 square miles of water within Larimer County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Larimer County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Larimer County has 284.7 times the land area of nearby Red Feather Lakes CDP (9.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Boulder County, Grand County, Jackson County, Weld County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

