Between Fraser and Granby
Tabernash is the unincorporated stretch of the Fraser Valley between Fraser and Granby, at 8,333 feet with about 450 year-round residents. Housing here is subdivision-scale, not town-scale: newer custom homes on two-plus-acre lots at Fairways at Pole Creek, and in Pole Creek Meadows, Grand View Highlands, Sheep Mountain Ridge Estates, and Coyote Creek, older cabin subdivisions east of US 40, and open sage meadow along the Fraser River. Pole Creek Golf Club's 27 holes and Devil's Thumb Ranch anchor the area.
Permits: Grand County, through Cloudpermit
Tabernash has no town government, so Grand County Building & Sanitation issues every permit — the office is at 308 Byers Avenue in Hot Sulphur Springs, and all applications go through the county's Cloudpermit portal. The county runs on the 2015 I-Codes with local amendments in effect since June 30, 2018, which differs from the 2021 codes Winter Park and Fraser use a few miles south, so we confirm jurisdiction first. Fairways at Pole Creek and most Tabernash subdivisions have HOA architectural review committees that see the drawings before the county does, which usually sets the schedule. Our permit guide covers how we run a project through two reviewers.
Snow by zone, footings at thirty inches
Grand County does not publish one snow number. Roof snow load is set by the county snow-zone map and Subdivision Index, or by the SEAC Colorado design snow loads, and the county asks for your legal description to give you the figure. The rest of the design criteria are fixed: a 30-inch frost depth and a 115 mph three-second-gust design wind. We pull the snow figure for the parcel before we size a beam, and a covered deck or patio cover here is engineered for snow bearing down and wind pulling up — not picked from a catalog.
Wildfire code: pending, so we build ahead of it
As of June 2026, Grand County had not adopted the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, while the Grand Fire and East Grand Fire districts had, and the county building department publishes defensible-space guidance. We do not wait for the decision. On forested Tabernash lots we default to ignition-resistant capped composite, framing bays closed or screened so embers cannot nest, and an underside that is not a woodpile. If the county adopts the code before your permit is filed, the design already meets it; if not, you have a deck that is meaningfully less of a liability either way.
What we build here
Capped composite handles altitude UV, months under snowpack, and hard freeze-thaw without a refinishing clock — we lead with it over softwood at 8,300 feet. On view lots — and at Fairways at Pole Creek nearly every lot is one — slim aluminum or cable railing keeps the meadow and the mountains in the picture.
Repair or replace
Older cabin-subdivision decks east of US 40 were often framed to lighter snow assumptions than the county's current zone map. We inspect the frame first. Sound structure earns a re-deck; undersized structure gets a replacement plan on current-code framing — in writing either way.
Over Berthoud Pass, in blocks
Tabernash is about 115 minutes from our Centennial shop over Berthoud Pass. We schedule the Fraser Valley by season, grouping site visits and build weeks so a crew is on site for a stretch — the pass decides winter access, not the price or the guarantee. We serve the rest of Grand County on the same trips.
Run the cost calculator for a planning range, then tell us what you are planning and we will pull the snow figure for your parcel.