Find Larimer County Court Dates

Larimer County Court Calendars Explained

For state cases, the free Colorado Judicial Branch Docket Search is the main Larimer County court calendar. The linked view opens with Larimer already picked. It lists settings from the Eighth Judicial District Court and Larimer County Court. Filters let you trim the court calendar by courthouse, court type, division, date, case number, party, or attorney. Each result can show date, start time, duration, hearing type, location, appearance type, and courtroom.

One caution: this is a settings calendar, not the full Register of Action. The ROA is the clerk's chronological case summary. Pleadings, orders, or certified copies come through a separate records request. Municipal cases often will not show here. Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Johnstown, Wellington, and other cities run their own city-code calendars.

Larimer County Calendar Filters

One rule on the official calendar can stop a docket search cold. A date by itself is never enough. Anyone pulling up the Larimer County court calendar must layer on at least one more filter. So plan for it before you begin. A case number works best. It points to a single file. Courthouse, court type, division, party, or attorney will also do the job. Extra filters matter most with common names. They cut down false matches on the docket.

The Larimer-filtered docket screen is the public route to local state-court settings in the county.

That official docket screen shows why every Larimer County court date search needs the county picked plus one identifying field.

Finding Your Court Date

When a hearing truly matters, use every channel. The online Larimer County court calendar is fastest for state cases, with the Combined Court clerk as the direct fallback. City summons? Call that municipal clerk. Your attorney can also confirm the operative setting from the case file and court notice.

1. Identify the issuing court from the summons, citation, or case caption.
2. Open the state docket search and add the case number plus a narrow date range.
3. Read the appearance type, room, duration, and hearing label, then check any official virtual-room link.
4. For a state case, call 970-494-3500 in Fort Collins or 970-622-2100 in Loveland when the result is missing or unclear.
5. Visit the correct clerk counter if phone or web access does not resolve the issue. Courtroom postings may help on site, but they do not replace clerk confirmation.

The Larimer trial-court page lists court contacts and virtual courtroom links. Those links explain how to reach a proceeding, but the hearing entry itself still controls.

Note: Confirm a municipal hearing with the city clerk because the state Combined Court cannot reset or verify a city-code case.

Larimer County Calendar Locations

State settings may land you in Fort Collins or Loveland. The Larimer County Justice Center sits at 201 LaPorte Avenue, Suite 100, Fort Collins. Its clerk counter serves customers weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Loveland County Court is at 810 E. 10th Street, Suite 110, with clerk hours of 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.

Loveland Municipal Court sits in Suite 200 of the same complex. Shared walls do not merge the dockets. Check the ticket color and issuing agency to learn which clerk controls the date.

How to Read a Court Setting

A Larimer County court setting is a scheduled event, never a finding or outcome. Read the whole row. A time with the wrong room or appearance method sends you to the wrong place. The duration helps with planning, though it stays an estimate, and the hearing type tells you the event's role in the case.

A judge's assignment chart can hint at a division, but it is not the daily Larimer County court calendar. Trust the live docket entry and the filed notice.

Larimer County Setting Terms

Local calendars lean on short labels for very different events. Treat each term as a stage, not a promised result. If a label clashes with a filed notice, call the assigned clerk or counsel before the court date.

Advisement or first hearing

An early event addressing allegations, rights, custody, bond, and next steps where relevant.

Arraignment

A setting at which the plea posture is addressed.

Pretrial conference

A case-management event used to assess readiness, issues, and possible resolution.

Motions hearing

Argument or evidence on a request for a court ruling.

Continuance or reset

A scheduled event moved to another date.

Sentencing

A criminal setting after conviction or a plea.

Larimer also posts weekend bond hearing schedules, holiday changes included. A normal weekday search may never surface those special advisement calendars.

Larimer County Division Calendars

Recurring calendar patterns help explain a result. Yet they cannot fix a date for one case. County Court procedures list Fort Collins courtrooms 3D, 4D, and 5D. Division C sets eviction returns Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. Pretrial hearings fall weekdays at 8:30 a.m., and civil-money returns weekdays at 9 a.m. Loveland uses L1 and L2, with similar return and pretrial times in Division LC.

The official Larimer District Court setting procedures reveal how much scheduling varies by division. Most divisions demand a filed Notice to Set. Deadlines run from seven days to fourteen business days. Some setting conferences use Webex. Several divisions require counsel, not an assistant, to handle trial settings. After a date clears, the later notice should state the time, length, nature, and approved virtual details.

Note: A recurring division schedule is context only; use the case-specific docket entry and filed notice to confirm an appearance.

Larimer County Virtual Court Calendar

A virtual courtroom link and a Larimer County court date do different jobs. The calendar names the case setting, room, and appearance type. A livestream page identifies a courtroom and judicial officer. Open access to a stream does not mean the case moved online. It never authorizes recording.

The Tenth Circuit's official court site is a reminder. Appellate calendars sit outside the Larimer state trial-court filter.

One layer sits apart. Federal appellate settings never appear on the Larimer County Combined Court calendar, so check the relevant federal court calendar for those dates.

Continuances, Resets, and Cancellations

A continuance moves a hearing. Nothing about it dismisses the case. An ROA may still show the older setting. Two dates can simply record the case's history rather than two live appearances. Before assuming anything, compare each entry's date, hearing type, and status. Then hunt down the latest filed notice or minute order.

Local rules also make notice-to-set work a shared job. Skip that process and the court may pick a date without hearing from one side. Sending a request for a new date accomplishes nothing by itself. The change takes hold only when the court grants it and the clerk records it.

Look at the online calendar again shortly before court. If entries conflict, call the correct Larimer County clerk and ask which setting stands. A mailed notice, a lawyer's word, and the docket should be reconciled. Do not guess them into a ranking.

Larimer County Court Date Conflicts

Start with the case number when two settings show up. Confirm both rows carry the same case class and sequence. Then compare the hearing labels. A pretrial conference followed by a trial can be perfectly normal. An old arraignment beside a new one usually signals a reset. Printable or exported results are handy but stale-prone, and they are not certified.

For the full chronological trail, request the ROA from the Larimer Combined Court clerk. Minute orders and continuance entries often sit there, explaining what a date-centered calendar cannot. Locating the case is the simpler task. The county's case lookup process works first. Then call the clerk if you still need help.

Larimer County Municipal Calendars

Municipal jurisdiction explains many empty Larimer County court calendar searches. Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Johnstown, and Wellington all hold local power. Each town runs its own ordinance and local traffic dockets. A city matter stays with the municipal clerk even inside Larimer County. Windsor and Johnstown straddle the Weld County line, yet municipal jurisdiction follows the town case.

Let the issuing agency and caption guide you. Loveland splits its tickets by color. Pink and white electronic tickets go to Municipal Court. Blue tickets belong to Larimer County Court. Johnstown usually holds court on the first and third Monday. Wellington normally convenes on the second Wednesday. Neither recurring schedule overrides the date printed on a summons.

Call the named municipal court for its current docket channel. The city clerk, not the state Combined Court clerk, controls that setting.

If You Miss a Court Setting

Act at once. Pull up the case number and court, then contact the assigned clerk or your attorney. Never assume a new date will simply appear. A missed setting can trigger a failure-to-appear entry, a warrant, a bond consequence, a default, or another adverse step, depending on the matter and the court's order.

A municipal clerk cannot fix a state case. The Combined Court cannot reset a city case either. Route the request by the caption, and keep any filed notice or confirmation that states the next Larimer County court date.