Erie Highlands

Erie Highlands is one of the Front Range's more successful newer master-planned communities — large enough to have real amenities, designed carefully enough to avoid the anonymous sprawl quality that plagues comparable developments. The central park and recreation infrastructure were built before the homes around them, which shows in how the neighborhood functions socially. Erie itself is one of Colorado's fastest-growing communities, with the employment base and school system catching up quickly to the residential demand that's been pulling buyers east from Boulder County for the past decade.