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The map starts where we live. Colorado's Front Range is a chain of cities and counties that grew fast, kept growing and outran the institutions built to cover them. Each community gets a portal, a name and a mandate: cover this place like it's the center of the world. To the people who live there, it is.
The flagship portal and the proof of the model. It covers one of Colorado's fastest-growing counties, from the courthouse square in Castle Rock to the red rocks above Roxborough, with the full kit behind it.
Castle Rock • Parker • Highlands Ranch • Lone Tree • Larkspur • Roxborough
College town energy, canyon towns and a river running through it. The Larimer portal will bring its mix of campus life, foothills and main streets onto one page, with room for every town between.
Fort Collins • Loveland • Estes Park • Berthoud • Wellington • Timnath
Farm country and boomtowns. Weld is one of Colorado's largest counties by land, and its story rarely gets told in one place. Its portal will give it a page one of its own.
Greeley • Windsor • Erie • Firestone • Dacono • Eaton
The name says it: CityKits starts with the city. A town with real gravity, its own downtown, its own teams and its own politics, deserves a front page that's entirely about it, and that's exactly what a CityKits city site is. Every storefront, every game, every council vote, covered at street level under the city's own name.
Some places live more regionally, with shared school districts, one fairground and home prices that get tracked at the county line. Those get a county portal that gives every city inside it a dedicated section, with neighborhood pages inside the cities. Both shapes run on the same platform, and neither is a compromise. A city site goes deeper on fewer square miles. A county portal stitches a dozen main streets into one front page. Either way, the hierarchy mirrors how locals actually give directions: city, neighborhood, street.
We're skeptical of generic city-site templates with a different skyline photo dropped on each one. Specificity is the product. If a portal could describe any town, it describes none.
A hometown brand can't live at one address anymore. Each portal in the network runs as a full local media operation, and the platform powers every piece of it.
Each portal carries its brand onto the social feeds its community already scrolls. The story people share at the bus stop and the one on the site are the same story, wearing the same name.
Inboxes are the most loyal channel in local media. Portals send newsletters and alerts that bring readers back without an algorithm deciding whether they deserve to see their own town's news.
When a local business promotes through its portal, the campaign runs across the site, the social channels and the newsletters together. One buy, the whole community, no national middleman.
Every portal in the network carries the same small mark in its footer. It's a promise about the machinery: fast pages, claimed business profiles, moderated listings and a platform team on call. The brand up top belongs to the community. The mark below is ours to earn.
Colorado's Front Range comes first, and DouglasCountyCO.com leads the way. Larimer and Weld are next on the board. Nominations from locals genuinely move a city or county up the list, so if you want yours sooner, say so.
That's often how a portal starts: one person or a small crew who knows the place cold. If that's you, reach out through the contact page and tell us what you'd cover first.
They share a platform, not a front page. A statewide story might show up in several portals, but town news stays town news. Each community's coverage belongs to that community.
No. Portals are independent local media properties running on the CityKits platform. The name describes the coverage area, not a government affiliation.
Nominate your city or county and tell us who should run its portal. Maybe that's you.
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