Every August, the roads around the Boulder County Fairgrounds fill with horse trailers and pickup trucks. During fair week, Fox Hill residents felt the same concentration of traffic around the fairgrounds as other Longmont residents. The Boulder County Fair ran August 5 through 9, its 157th year, and was preceded by a parade down Main Street on August 1 that the Longmont Kiwanis Club has sponsored since 1961.
Fox Hill has two calendars: the private club calendar, built around golf tee times and member events, and the neighborhood calendar, run by two separate homeowners associations independent of the club's membership rolls. The club restaurant adds a public-facing dimension to that distinction.
What Fair Week Actually Reroutes
The fair itself draws over 100,000 attendees across its run, according to figures from Colorado State University Extension, which co-hosts the 4-H and FFA programming that anchors the event. That volume does not stay contained to the fairgrounds. Downtown Longmont's regular Friday rhythm—the same patios and food truck lots that fill up for the Downtown Summer Concerts series—got an extra layer of fair traffic during the fair. Parking downtown got tighter. Wait times at the usual spots stretched longer.
During fair week, the Fox Hill Club restaurant offered a nearby dining option for residents.
The Club's Two Doors
The Fox Hill Club is private. Its 18-hole course, the same one Lieutenant Governor John Vanderhoof opened on June 1, 1973, is reserved for members and their guests. That part of the club's identity is well known in the neighborhood, and it is accurate.
The restaurant, however, is not part of that restriction. Per the club's own listing with Visit Longmont, the restaurant and full bar are open to the public for lunch and dinner, with a patio for the warmer months and weekly specials like Prime Rib Night and Italian Night layered on top of the standard menu. Fox Hill homeowners do not need to join the club to visit its restaurant.
The club has also been responsive to what its members actually want, not just what tradition dictates. In 2024, general manager Brad Roumaya oversaw the addition of six new pickleball courts, built by converting two of the club's existing tennis courts after a member survey showed strong demand for the sport. Roumaya framed the move as a direct response to what the membership was asking for, not a guess at what might look good on a brochure. Pickleball Innovators quoted longtime member Jim Roby calling it proof the club was "continuously evolving to meet the interests of its members." That is a small detail, but it says something larger about how the club operates: amenities here follow demand, not assumption.
Two Calendars, One Address
| Private Club Calendar | Neighborhood Calendar | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it serves | Members and guests only (golf), public (restaurant) | All Fox Hill homeowners, regardless of club membership |
| Run by | Club management and ownership | Fox Hill Filing I HOA and Fox Hill Filings II & III HOA |
| Recent example | Prime Rib Night, Italian Night, six-court pickleball buildout | Summer Picnics, Annual Block Party, Cleanup Days |
| Big annual anchor | Member tournaments and club events | Christmas Eve Luminaria, when residents line interior streets with candlelit paper bags in a tradition traced back through the American Southwest to 16th-century Spain |
The neighborhood side of that calendar has its own late-summer rhythm. Filing I's HOA has historically held its annual meeting and picnic at the Fox Hill Country Club itself in late August, with the 2024 gathering landing on August 24. Filing II & III runs its own version of the same idea, with Cleanup Days, a garage sale, and a block party that in past years has come together around a food truck rather than a formal venue. Neither calendar requires club membership. Both exist specifically because the neighborhood decided decades ago that it wanted its own gathering points separate from whatever was happening at the club.
That separation traces back to how Fox Hill was built. The land was a cattle feedlot before developer Phil Skrbina purchased it in the 1970s. The club opened in November 1972, and home construction began the following year, with the Filing II & III HOA not formally organized until 1997. The club came first. The neighborhood organized its own identity around it later, and that identity has stayed independent ever since.
Where the Quiet Actually Is
Fair week was also a reminder of how much open space sits close to Fox Hill without any of it touching the fairgrounds crowd. The neighborhood's own resource list, maintained by the Filing I HOA, points residents toward:
- The St. Vrain Greenway
- Sandstone Park
- Stephen Day Park
- Pella Crossing
- Golden Ponds
- McIntosh Lake
These are the same trails and ponds Fox Hill residents use every other week of the year, and during fair week they offered nearby options for a walk.
What Fair Week Highlights
Fox Hill's name gets used around town this time of year, including by drivers passing the club's sign on their way somewhere else. But the neighborhood's social infrastructure extends beyond fair traffic. It is a restaurant patio open to anyone, not just members. It is an HOA picnic that predates most of the people attending it. It is a set of parks that never show up on a fairgrounds map.
The reason this matters beyond one week in August is that it says something true about how Fox Hill functions the other fifty-one weeks of the year too. The neighborhood does not depend on its private club for its sense of place, even though the club gave the streets their name. It runs its own calendar, and that calendar has been running since before most current residents moved in.
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