Red Feather Lakes is an unincorporated town, a make known office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a allocation of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Red Feather Lakes declare office has the ZIP Code 80545. At the United States Census 2010, the population of the Red Feather Lakes CDP was 343, while the population of the 80545 ZIP Code Tabulation Area was 851 including next-door areas.

Located in the Rocky Mountains northwest of Fort Collins, Red Feather Lakes is a rustic mountain village with the Roosevelt National Forest. The village has three small general stores subsequently gas pump, groceries, ATM and gift shop, a hardware store, an external sports shop, a coffee shop, a community library, small olden store, and name office. Several rustic mountain restaurants are located in the community.

Gnome Road (aka “Elf Lane”) is a mountain dirt road in the village. Hikers strolling and cars cruising the scenic road will locate ceramic elves and gnomes as capably as fairy doors and faces in the course of the trees, boulders and bushes.

Other than Native Americans, only occasional hunters and trappers passed through the Red Feather Lakes area until the middle of the 19th century. The first known settler was John Hardin, who built a cabin virtually 2 miles (3 km) from the current Red Feather Lakes village in 1871. Other settlers, many of them families of Hardin’s eleven enduring children, homesteaded and built nearby. In these upfront years, the settlers were primarily ranchers, but option important upheaval was lumbering. The trails in the area, some of which eventually became roads, were built by tie hacks, who hauled their railroad ties by the side of to what is now Tie Siding, Wyoming, where they were used in building the transcontinental railroad.