Mexican restaurants are popular across Colorado; one small Mexican fast food chain that got its start in Colorado opened its third location in Fort Collins in December of 2025. With luck, hard work, and great food, they’ll last as long (if not longer) that the Carl’s Jr. that stood there, for four decades.
The walls of the building at 421 Cowan Street in Fort Collins, near Mulberry and Riverside still echo with the sounds of hundreds of thousands of customers and tens of thousands of employees it once held. In December of 2025, the building went from holding a restaurant specializing in burgers to being one that specializes in burritos. The small chain may become national (like Carl’s Jr.) in 40 years; you never know.
More Than One Carl’s Jr. Closed in Northern Colorado in 2025
It was sad to find out in July of 2025, that the old Carl’s Jr. would be shutting down after so long; it was a few months later, that the Loveland location in Downtown, also…..