Lazear, Colorado

About Lazear

Lazear is a small unincorporated community in western Colorado.

Lazear holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 1.6 square miles.

📰 Lazear News Today

• Lazear Capital Partners BizSpotlight The Business Journals · Dec 1
• Helen Quain Obituary - Grand Junction, CO Dignity Memorial · Feb 4
• Marion Glorie Obituary (2026) - Peyton, CO - Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home Legacy | Obituary · May 16
• Lazear, Colorado Population 2026 World Population Review · Aug 19
• Garmesa Farms briefly sought to make the desert bloom The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel · Jul 18

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What Makes Lazear Unique

• The only place in America named Lazear — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in western Colorado, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 11 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Lazear

• Delta National Fish Hatchery reviews ★
• Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Gunnison Gorge Wilderness · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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