Larkspur sits in Douglas County ZIP 80118 along the I-25 corridor between Castle Rock and Monument, at roughly 6,700 feet. The town itself is barely a hamlet, but the residential footprint extends miles west into Perry Park and east toward Spruce Mountain Open Space, with most properties on 2-35 acre parcels. The Colorado Renaissance Festival grounds anchor the visitor economy each summer, Bear Dance Golf Club draws a steady stream of golf homeowners, and Perry Park Country Club has been the architectural reference point for the western half of Larkspur since the 1970s. Population is small (1,000 or so in town, with several thousand more on the surrounding acreage) and the community runs hard equestrian, with horse properties as the defining housing typology.

The Perry Park area is the original Larkspur, developed starting in 1971 around the country club and country lake. Homes there are mostly 1970s-90s custom builds, often mountain-contemporary with cedar siding, exposed beams, and large west-facing picture windows framing the red-rock formations and Devils Head views. After 30-50 years of altitude UV, sealed IGU units in those original installations have almost universally fogged or failed; the cedar siding has aged into character, but the windows have aged into liabilities. Newer development around Bear Dance and along Spruce Mountain Road is mostly 2000s-2010s custom and semi-custom with builder-grade or better windows now hitting the 15-25 year mark.

Larkspur is a 40-50 minute drive from Colorado Springs and roughly the same from Denver, which is exactly the geography where Andersen's national channel pricing in the Denver metro starts to matter. The Renewal by Andersen markup in this market is significant. We install the same Andersen Windows product line (400 Series, A-Series, E-Series, Fibrex composite) without the Renewal channel markup, which usually means homeowners can spec triple-pane Low-E with argon, U-factor 0.20 or below, and stay under the Renewal dual-pane budget. Meets ENERGY STAR V7.0 Northern Zone and HB 23-1161.

The non-obvious Larkspur insight: large picture window assemblies on west-facing great rooms (the Perry Park signature) need both Low-E SmartSun for solar control and laminated glass for the wind-driven hail that comes off Devils Head. We design-pressure rate every west elevation in Larkspur against the actual mountain exposure, not the generic foothills rating. Pro tip: if your home has the original 1970s-80s aluminum sliding patio door, replace it with the windows. It is almost always the worst-performing opening in a Perry Park home, and pairing it with the window order lets us match frame color and glass package across the whole envelope.