Spending Father's Day on the North End of Boulder Father's Day 2026 lands on Sunday, June 21, and North Boulder is a good place to spend it without fighting the downtown crowds. The 80304 neighborhood has its own cluster of bakeries, cafes, restaurants, and shops, and it sits at the doorstep of the foothills — which …

Before the Subdivisions: A Corridor of Farms In the early 1900s, the stretch of land running north from Boulder's settled core along what would become Broadway was not suburban — it was agricultural. Joseph and Eliza Wolff operated a fruit farm on a site where the North Boulder shopping corridor would later take shape. …

Goose Creek Path: Following North Boulder's Hidden Waterway The trailhead at East Mapleton Park and Ball Fields, 2838 Mapleton Avenue looks like an unremarkable park entrance off a residential street — but step onto the path and you're at the western terminus of one of Boulder's most practical car-free corridors: the …

Wonderland Lake: The Reservoir That Became a Wildlife Sanctuary Standing on the earthen dam at the south end of Wonderland Lake on a clear morning, you are looking at the northern geographic anchor of the 80304 zip code — a shallow foothills reservoir that began as an irrigation impoundment in the early twentieth …

A Tour de France Kitchen, Relocated to Alpine Avenue Allen Lim earned his PhD in integrative physiology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2004, and within a few years he was doing something no other American sport scientist had done: cooking real meals for professional cyclists at the Tour de France. As …

A Different Boulder North of Iris Cross Iris Avenue heading north on Broadway and the texture of Boulder changes within a few blocks. The bookstores and brewpubs give way to auto-body shops, self-storage, fabrication studios, and warehouses with roll-up doors. This is the part of the city that most visitors never see, …

Moe's Bagel: A NoBo Breakfast Institution on Broadway Moe's Broadway Bagel has been a fixture of North Boulder's morning routine since 1992, turning out hand-rolled, kettle-boiled bagels at 2650 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304 in the tradition of a classic New York deli counter. John and Patty Sherman founded the shop …

Audrey Jane's Pizza Garage: Naturally Leavened Pies in the Heart of NoBo Audrey Jane's Pizza Garage has been Boulder's neighborhood pizza counter since 2015, operating out of 2675 13th St, Boulder, CO 80304 in the Panorama Village shopping strip just north of the North Boulder Recreation Center. The shop earned …

Nomad Playhouse: A 1952 Theater Still Serving the NoBo Arts Community Nomad Playhouse is one of North Boulder's oldest performing arts venues, a community theater space at 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, CO 80304 that has been part of the neighborhood's cultural fabric since 1952. The original Nomad Players theater company …

Longs Gardens: A Century of Iris on Broadway Few places in Boulder carry more quiet history than Longs Gardens. Founded in 1905 by John Long, the nursery has remained in the Long family for more than a century, making it one of the oldest continuously operating iris nurseries in the United States. It sits at 3240 …