2024 Historic Barn Tour

For over a decade, Berthoud Historical Society leaders and members have discussed hosting a BARN TOUR of local barns. As housing and retail development increases, the need to view and appreciate barns from Berthoud’s Agricultural Heritage has taken on a greater urgency. Barns of today may indeed be razed and forgotten by tomorrow unless we take time now to visit them to appreciate their construction, purposes, and design as well as the life stories of the farm families who worked the farmland around them.

At last, this year you, your family, and friends have an opportunity to tour 4 farmsteads in and around Berthoud.

Here is the information you need to know:

There are two tours on Saturday, September 14, 2024
– a morning tour from 9am – 12:45pm
– an afternoon tour from 1:00 – 4:45pm.

These are driving tours. You will need to drive from one barn to the next in the order outlined in your ticket booklet.

• Each tour will include four barns:
• The Ludlow Barn on Berthoud Parkway
• The Mundt-Malchow Barn on Hwy 287
• The Gardner Barns at Gargot Farms Riding Center on W County Road 8
• The Beeler-Hertha Barn on W County Road 8 (east of CR 21 traffic circle)

To assure that each barn has a similar number of visitors, participants will be assigned their first barn to start with. Please arrive at your starting barn at least 5 minutes early so that the presentation of the barn and the farmstead/family history can begin at the top of the hour (9am – morning tour or 1pm – afternoon tour). Once you have explored the barn and learned about the family farm, you will return to your car and drive to the next barn on the list. There will be a presentation at each barn every hour: Morning Tour: 9, 10, 11am and 12 noon. Afternoon Tour: 1, 2, 3, & 4pm. Docents will be sure to stop in time for folks to drive safely to and arrive at their next barn before the top of the hour. There will be signs and balloons to help you find the next barn as you get closer.