Inside Lafayette — guides https://insidelafayette.com/ An independent guide to Lafayette, Colorado: Old Town and Public Road, Waneka Lake, the Coal Creek Trail, the schools, and what’s on this week. en-us Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:50:33 GMT Explore Old Town Lafayette: six places in walking order https://insidelafayette.com/articles/explore-lafayette-in-walking-order/ https://insidelafayette.com/articles/explore-lafayette-in-walking-order/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMT Park at the north end of Public Road and walk south: The Collective’s free gallery, a pub with 400 whiskies, the children’s museum and a bookstore cafe on Harrison, the coal miner’s cottage that is the history museum, Odd13’s taproom, and brunch across from Festival Plaza. About a mile, mostly flat. Explore Lafayette: Mary Miller’s town, the coal mines and the lake https://insidelafayette.com/articles/lafayette-history/ https://insidelafayette.com/articles/lafayette-history/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMT A farm platted into a town in 1888 by a widow who named it for her husband, a coal camp from the Simpson Mine to the Columbine massacre of 1927, a 1934 pool case that the City now commemorates, and a town of 2,600 in 1960 that is 30,000 today. The short history of Lafayette, with sources. History Lafayette with kids: a children’s museum, a lake with paddleboats, storytimes and therapy dogs https://insidelafayette.com/articles/lafayette-with-kids/ https://insidelafayette.com/articles/lafayette-with-kids/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:00:00 GMT WOW!’s thirty-year-old museum, the library’s storytimes and makerspace, the recreation center’s $4 youth admission, Waneka Lake’s boathouse and disc golf, the Coal Creek Trail, School’s Out camps on the days off, and the fall and winter dates. Where to go with children in Lafayette. Families