Fort Collins is a home rule municipality in Larimer County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. It is the fourth-most populous city in Colorado with a population of 169,810 at the 2020 census, while the Fort Collins metropolitan statistical area has an estimated 375,000 residents. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is a prominent college town, home to Colorado State University, a public research university and the second-largest university by enrollment in Colorado.