Hub City of the plains
Limon is the Hub City of the eastern plains — about 1,900 people at 5,365 feet where I-70 meets US 24. Downtown along Main Street and the blocks near the rail yard are 1900s–50s homes; the town grid around Civic Center Drive and the Heritage Museum is 1960s–80s ranches, with a few newer houses at the edges. It is flat, treeless, and very windy, and it is the farthest east we build.
Town Hall issues the permit
Inside town limits, the Town of Limon Building Department at Town Hall issues deck permits. The town posts a permit application, a fee schedule, and its own Guide for Single Family Uncovered Decks and Porches, which sets out what the drawings need to show — and it lists the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code among its adopted documents. Homes in the unincorporated section of Limon file instead with the Lincoln County Land Use Office in Hugo, which adopted the 2018 IRC and IBC in June 2023. We confirm the jurisdiction, prepare the drawings to the guide, file, and manage inspections. The Lincoln County page covers the county side.
Wind is the design load
On most metro decks snow sizes the frame and everything else follows. In Limon, wind leads. A covered patio or pergola here gets uplift connections at every post, a braced frame, and a roof engineered to stay put, because there is nothing between Limon and the horizon to slow a gust. Hail governs the surface: capped composite takes the stones and the UV without checking, splintering, or graying — on a treeless lot, softwood would be stuck on a refinishing schedule nobody keeps. Snow still sizes the frame, and footings still go below the 30–36 inch frost line. We're a certified Trex, Deckorators, and TimberTech dealer.
What we build here
Most Limon decks want shade, so the covered section is usually the point rather than an add-on: a roof that makes the deck usable when the sun is straight overhead and the wind is up. On the town grid that's a platform off the back of a ranch with a cover sized to the yard; at the edges of town it's a deck sized to the view, railed to keep the horizon in front of you. We design from the actual sun and the actual wind, and the free on-site consult is where that starts.
Repair or replace
Plenty of Limon homes carry original wood decks that the sun and wind have worked on for decades. We inspect the frame before quoting. Sound joists, posts, and a bolted ledger earn a re-deck at $20–$35 per square foot; rot at grade, a nailed ledger, or shallow footings get a replacement recommendation — free, in writing.
Eighty-five minutes, planned
Limon is about eighty-five minutes from our Centennial shop, out I-70 past Deer Trail and Byers. At that distance we schedule differently — site visits grouped, build weeks planned so the crew is not making the drive for a half day — but the price and the warranty are the same as in Centennial. Run the cost calculator for a planning range, then tell us what you are planning and we will come see the lot.