I flew Indian Peaks on a spring morning, and I lifted off at six-thirty so I could catch the first light moving across the golf course. The fairways were still wet with dew, the ponds were perfectly still, and there was snow on the high peaks along the western horizon, glowing pink and then gold as the sun came up behind me.
Indian Peaks shares its name with the range of high summits along the Continental Divide west of Boulder, and on a clear morning you can see them from almost anywhere in the neighborhood. From the air, the view opens even wider. The Flatirons rise to the southwest, the mountains run all the way across the horizon, and in the foreground the whole community spreads out around the course in long, curving streets shaded by trees that have had more than thirty years to grow.
This is one of the most established neighborhoods in Lafayette, and right now it is also one of the busiest neighborhoods in the Foothills Film + Footage Library. Over the last ten days, Redfin has sent me alerts for four different homes here, and one of them went under contract within two days of coming on the market. That is a good reason to take a closer look at what makes this community so appealing from above.
The Indian Peaks reel in the vertical format, ready for Reels and Stories.
The golf course is the heart of the community. Indian Peaks Golf Course is a public, 18-hole course designed by the professional golfer Hale Irwin, and it opened in 1993. The fairways wind through the entire neighborhood, so many of the homes look out over the greens, and almost every shot I took from the air returns to that ribbon of green running between the rooftops and the trees.
The ponds catch the light. Water hazards are scattered across the course, and in the early morning they hold the sky like mirrors. One of my favorite clips flies back over a chain of ponds and fairways while the mountains slowly fill the frame behind them.
The clubhouse and driving range are where the day begins. By the time I reached the clubhouse, golfers were already out on the driving range and a few carts were making their way down the first fairway. Seen from above, it looks exactly like what it is, a neighborhood where people walk out their door and start the day outside.
The streets curve around the course. The neighborhood is built from quiet loops and cul-de-sacs that bend around the fairways, with ranch homes, townhomes, and larger semi-custom homes mixed together. The mature trees along these streets give the whole community a settled, comfortable feeling that newer neighborhoods take decades to grow into.
The entrance tells you that you have arrived. A hand-laid stone wall with the Indian Peaks sign greets you at the entry, framed by evergreens and low-water landscaping. I filmed several shots that begin low on that sign and rise up over the trees until the course and the mountains open up beyond it, and they make a lovely first moment for a listing video.
Indian Peaks was built on what was once the Beauprez family farm, at the corner of Baseline Road and 95th Street, which is also Colorado Highway 42. Construction began in 1992 on about 600 acres that included the golf course, and when the last phase was finished the community held roughly 1,700 homes. When it was built, it was known as one of Colorado's early green-built communities, with homes designed to be considerably more energy efficient than the standard of the time.
That history shows from the air. The farmland that once surrounded it is still visible in places to the east, and the neighborhood sits right between Boulder and Denver, with an easy drive to both and to Flatiron Crossing.
The homes listed in Indian Peaks over the last couple of weeks range from a townhome in the low $500,000s to a semi-custom home on the golf course priced near $1.9 million. That range is part of what makes this community special, because a young professional, a growing family, and a couple ready to downsize can all find a home here, and they are all buying into the same golf course, the same trails, and the same view of the mountains.
Buyers are choosing the community as much as the house. In the National Association of Realtors' 2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 59 percent of buyers named the quality of the neighborhood as the most important factor in their decision. A listing photo can show a kitchen and a backyard, but it cannot show that the fairway runs behind the fence, or that the Flatirons are waiting at the end of the street. From the air, a buyer can see all of it in a single shot.
The market here is also asking agents to work a little harder this fall. Several homes in Indian Peaks have seen price changes, and one seller is offering to pay down the buyer's interest rate for the first year. When sellers are offering incentives to stand out, a beautiful picture of the community they are selling becomes one more way to help a listing rise above the others.
And I want to add one more thing about this moment in marketing. So much of what we scroll past now is AI-generated, and people can feel when a place is not real. What I filmed over Indian Peaks is the actual sunrise on an actual spring morning, over streets where people actually live, and that kind of real footage is becoming rare and valuable.
The Indian Peaks reel in the horizontal format, with the golf course, the ponds, and the Front Range in the morning light.
The Indian Peaks collection includes 32 aerial clips, 9 still photos, and four finished neighborhood reels, all flown in a single spring morning.
I shot the neighborhood in both vertical and horizontal formats, with 10 vertical clips and 22 horizontal clips, and the four reels also come in both vertical and horizontal formats, so you can grab the vertical for a Reel or a Story and the horizontal for a listing video, your website, or YouTube, with no cropping and no reshooting. The clips are 4K mp4 files, color-graded in Premiere Pro, and the reels come with licensed music and are ready to post exactly as they are.
Here are a few ways agents can use them this season:
If you are listing in Indian Peaks, or you farm Lafayette and want to stay visible through the winter, the whole collection is ready for you. You can see it at foothillsfilmandfootage.com/neighborhoods/indian-peaks.
This collection was flown in the spring, so if you would like to show Indian Peaks in its fall colors, you can request a new shoot and I will fly it again while the season lasts. I can fly any neighborhood in the library as many times as you need, so the footage can follow the community through every season, from the gold of autumn to the first snow on the golf course.
And if there is a neighborhood you would like to see from the air that is not in the library yet, please tell me. I am still adding new communities, and I would love to know where you are working.
Indian Peaks is an established golf course community in Lafayette, Colorado, near the corner of Baseline Road and 95th Street, which is also Colorado Highway 42. It sits between Boulder and Denver, with views west to the Flatirons and the high peaks of the Continental Divide.
Indian Peaks Golf Course is a public, 18-hole course designed by Hale Irwin that opened in 1993. It has a driving range, a putting green, and a clubhouse, and its fairways and ponds wind through the surrounding neighborhood.
The neighborhood includes ranch-style homes, townhomes, and larger semi-custom homes, many of them along the golf course. Recent listings have ranged from the low $500,000s to nearly $2 million.
Early morning is the most beautiful time to see Indian Peaks from the air. The neighborhood looks west toward the mountains, so the rising sun lights up the Flatirons and the high peaks while the ponds on the golf course are still calm enough to reflect the sky.
Yes. Members of the Foothills Film + Footage Library can download the Indian Peaks clips, reels, and stills and use them in listing videos, social media posts, on their websites, and in listing presentations.
Yes. Agents can request a new shoot of Indian Peaks, including fall footage this season, and I can fly any neighborhood in the Foothills Film + Footage Library multiple times, so the footage stays current through every season.
Kyra Coates is an FAA-certified drone pilot and long-time marketing and communications director in Longmont, and the founder of Foothills Film + Footage, an aerial footage library of Boulder County neighborhoods built to help agents market the places they sell.