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What you need to know about Colorado drought restrictions

Record low snowpack is causing Denver-area cities to enact water restrictions

With a backdrop of snowless mountains, a couple walk around the lake in Washington Park, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
With a backdrop of snowless mountains, a couple walk around the lake in Washington Park, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
DENVER, CO - AUGUST 1:  Tynin Fries - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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A growing number of metro Denver communities are enacting drought restrictions in the wake of a record-low snowpack in the Colorado mountains.

Here’s what you need to know about each area’s restrictions.

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Denver

Denver Water enacts Stage 1 drought restrictions for the first time since 2013

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Here’s why spring rain won’t change metro Denver drought restrictions

Arvada

Aurora, Arvada are latest cities to declare Stage 1 drought restrictions on outdoor watering

Aurora

Aurora, Arvada are latest cities to declare Stage 1 drought restrictions on outdoor watering

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Boulder

Brighton

Brighton joins Front Range cities rolling out drought watering restrictions

Broomfield

Edgewater

Edgewater declares Stage 1 drought, imposes mandatory watering restrictions

Erie

Golden

Golden to enact drought restrictions, joining other metro Denver cities

Longmont

Longmontap Union Reservoir swim beach will be too shallow for swimming this summer

Northglenn

Northglenn enacts water restrictions amid drought

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