Firestone

Firestone sits in southwestern Weld County, about thirty miles north of Denver along the I-25 corridor, and it began in 1908 as a coal-mining town built for the miners who worked the area's five mines. When the mines closed in 1947, the old rail bed that once carried Firestone's coal became the Firestone Trail, which now links neighborhoods across the Carbon Valley. The town has grown from fewer than two thousand residents in 2000 to more than sixteen thousand today, with new master-planned neighborhoods, parks, and lakes along the St. Vrain River, all within easy reach of Longmont, Boulder, and Denver.