Highlandlake, Colorado

Highlandlake is a tiny, unincorporated community in western Weld County, Colorado, U.S.

It was founded in 1871 by "Deacon" Lorin Cassandre Mead[1] on the eastern shore of a prairie pothole/buffalo wallow located about eight miles northeast of Longmont, Colorado.

He came to Colorado, arriving on June 1, 1871, in The Chicago Colorado Colony later known as Longmont, with the idea of purchasing land in the Greeley, Weld County, area.

Lorin was taken with the area and upon his return to Longmont, filed on the land around the pothole which he named Highland Lake, now owned by the nearby town of Mead.

Within a few years, all of the businesses and most of the homes in Highlandlake were picked up and moved to the new townsite of Mead, CO. Today, Highlandlake is a small unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado.