Longmont Area Trail Exchange
A free email — every two weeks — that tracks what's actually happening with Longmont's trails, greenways and open spaces.
Why this exists
Someone at run club asked last week if the St. Vrain Greenway was open yet. Nobody knew. We'd all been running around the detour for months and just assumed it was still closed. Nobody had checked.
The information exists. The city posts project updates. The Army Corps files reports. Boulder County has a whole closures page. But it's scattered across six different websites, none of it sends you a notification, and most of it updates quietly at 2pm on a Tuesday while you're doing something else.
I have a dog. A good one. And I genuinely do not know which sections of the greenway I can take him on right now. I've been clicking through project pages and PDFs, doing the math on construction timelines. It's tedious for someone who does this professionally. For most people it's just not happening.
So I built a thing that watches all of it.
Someone had to.
What LATE actually does
LATE monitors city project pages, county updates and public lands notices, and detects when something actually changes. Every two weeks it sends a short email: what moved, what's still stalled, what's coming up.
When the Izaak Walton Reach 2 construction wraps and the trail reopens, you'll know. When the Boston Ave underpass is passable again and getting your friends with strollers to Left Hand Brewery stops requiring a three-block detour through a construction zone, LATE will tell you before you show up and figure it out the hard way.
No ads. No monetization. No tracking in the emails. Just the update, when there is one.
The March 1–15 update covered Izaak Walton Reach 2 construction progress and a new closure on McIntosh Lake Trail. That's the kind of thing you'll get — specific, local, when something actually changed. Never more often than every two weeks. Never when nothing happened.
Who built it
I'm Kyle Baudour. I live in Longmont, I run these trails and walk them with my dog, and I spend my days building marketing automation and AI systems for companies.
LATE is a civic tool that also happens to show what modern automation can do at a local scale. The scraper, the change detection and the email pipeline are the same class of infrastructure I build for clients. Building it for something I actually use keeps me honest about whether it works.
This is not a startup. There's no pitch deck, no growth target. Just a useful thing for a community I'm part of.
If you use Longmont's trails, LATE was built for you.
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