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Inside Timnath

Moving here

Moving to Timnath

What it is like to move to a farm town of 625 that became a town of 11,000 in fifteen years: housing in the master-planned neighborhoods, Poudre schools, the Harmony Road commute, who sends which bill, and where the water is.

What you are moving to

Timnath is a home-rule town in Larimer County on the bluff east of the Cache la Poudre River, half a mile east of the Harmony Road exit from I-25 and ten minutes from south Fort Collins. It was a railroad and farm town of a few hundred people for its first 130 years, with a three-block Main Street, a church and a school; the 2010 census counted 625 people. The 2020 census counted 6,487, the estimate for 2025 is about 11,600, and the Town calls itself one of the fastest-growing communities in Colorado. Almost everything except Old Town has been built since 2005: the neighborhoods around Timnath Reservoir and along Harmony Road, the Costco and Walmart at Weitzel Street, the Town Center, three schools and three parks.

Housing

Nearly all single-family homes in master-planned neighborhoods, most with metropolitan districts and homeowners’ associations: Timnath Ranch, WildWing, Timnath Lakes, Harmony, Serratoga Falls, Trailside, Wildwing and the newer subdivisions east toward County Road 5, plus a few apartment communities near Harmony Road. Old Town has the small houses from the railroad era. Median household income was about $113,000 in the last figures Wikipedia cites, which puts Timnath among the wealthier towns in northern Colorado. The listings sites in the sidebar show what is for sale; ask which metro district and which HOA a house is in, and whether reservoir access comes with it.

Schools

Timnath is in the Poudre School District, based in Fort Collins, and all three of its schools are in town: Timnath Elementary at 3909 Main Street in Old Town, which has taught the town’s children for more than a century; Bethke Elementary at 5100 School House Drive, opened in 2008 and named for the long-time Timnath educator Paul Bethke; and Timnath Middle-High School at 4700 East Prospect Road, opened in August 2022 and growing a grade a year to a full grade 6 to 12 school of up to 1,500 students.

Getting around

By car. Harmony Road is the spine: west over I-25 into Fort Collins (about ten minutes to the Harmony corridor, twenty to Old Town Fort Collins), east to Windsor in fifteen. I-25 puts Loveland twenty minutes south and Denver about an hour; Denver International Airport is about an hour and a quarter. There is no fixed-route transit in town; Transfort’s nearest routes are in Fort Collins. The Poudre River Trail is the off-road way out: 45 paved miles from Bellvue to Greeley, through Timnath, with the last gap closed in 2026.

Utilities, trash, fire, police

  • Water is the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District, 970-226-3104, which has had summer watering restrictions in dry years.
  • Sewer is the South Fort Collins Sanitation District, billed with the water.
  • Electricity is Xcel Energy or Poudre Valley REA, depending on the address.
  • Natural gas is Xcel Energy.
  • Trash and recycling are private; most neighborhoods contract a hauler through the HOA or metro district, and Waste Management and others serve the town. Check your covenants before signing up on your own.
  • Police is the Timnath Police Department, in its first purpose-built station at 4800 Goodman Street beside the Town Center; 970-224-3211.
  • Fire and emergency medical response is the Poudre Fire Authority, from Station 8 at 4800 Signal Tree Drive.
  • Library. There is no branch in town; Timnath is served by the Poudre River Public Library District, whose nearest branch is Council Tree in south Fort Collins.

Government

Timnath adopted a home-rule charter in 2006. A mayor and four council members, elected at large to staggered four-year terms, meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 6 pm at the Town Center on Signal Tree Drive, streamed online. The Planning Commission meets on first and third Tuesdays when there is an application to hear. The Town’s parks department runs the reservoir and the special events, and the Timnath Main Street program, a Colorado Main Street community, works on Old Town.

Living here

Summer is the ice cream social and movie night in Community Park, the splash pad, the reservoir’s swim beach and boat ramp, and the three markets on Main Street on second Sundays. Fall is the Fall Festival at the Town Center in late September, the last farmers markets and the eagles arriving at Fossil Creek. Winter is the Holiday Festival in Community Park on the first Saturday of December and the tree lighting at the 1888 church. Year-round there is the brewery in the grain elevator with its food trucks and run club, pickleball at two parks, and the river trail.