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Fort Collins prioritizes plowing major streets first to ensure access to hospitals and emergency services.

Residents can track the city's named snowplows online through a public map.

After a sprinkling of snow earlier in the week , Fort Collins' first significant snow of the season finally arrived Dec. 3 and snowplows were clearing city streets.

That prompts the question of how the city determines what streets to plow and when?

Here's the city's street snowplowing priority list and reasons behind it

The city is divided into eight plowing routes, which you can view here.

Priority 1 : Major east-west streets, including Mulberry Street, Prospect Road, Horsetooth Road and Harmony Road and north-south streets, including Timberline Road, College Avenue, Shields Stre

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