Pearl Street Arts Fest: Three Days on the Boulder Mall An outdoor artist market runs at a different pace from a gallery opening — open access, booth-by-booth browsing, no appointment or admission ticket required. The Pearl Street Arts Fest 2026 brings that format to the Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, CO 80302 for three …

Davis Leads on Commute Share — Here's the Rest of the Story Davis, California records a bike-to-work commute share of roughly 17 percent — nearly double Boulder's 10.5 percent — and that gap is worth sitting with before any claim about America's best biking city gets made on Boulder's behalf. Davis built its first …

Bands on the Bricks: Free Music on the Pearl Street Bricks Seven o'clock on a Wednesday evening in summer, and the courthouse plaza between 13th and 14th on Pearl Street is already packed — folding chairs claimed since six, the beer garden line winding past the fountain, a live band filling the brick plaza with sound …

Happy Thursday: Thirty-Four Years of Thursday Nights Since 1992, a group of cyclists has gathered on Thursday evenings in Boulder and rolled through the streets under the banner of one of the most durable social greetings the city's cycling culture has produced: "Happy Thursday." The ride that carries that phrase has …

Three Schools, One Zip Code: North Boulder's Elementary Landscape Three elementary schools sit within a mile and a half of each other in the 80304 zip code — Foothill, Crest View, and Columbine — each founded in a separate decade as North Boulder's postwar subdivisions expanded block by block away from the foothills. …

Where North Broadway Runs Out, the Foothills Begin Step off the north end of Broadway and the suburban grid gives way to open hillside within a single block — that proximity is the quiet luxury of living in 80304. Three OSMP trailheads put NoBo residents in the foothills within minutes, from a gentle meadow loop suited …

Boulder Creek Path: The Grade-Separated Corridor Grade-separated at every major road crossing, the Boulder Creek Path runs 5.5 miles from the mouth of Boulder Canyon to the Stazio Ballfields near 55th Street without asking a cyclist to stop for a traffic signal. Where Broadway, Folsom, 28th Street, 30th Street, and the …

The Fourth of July in North Boulder Looks Different Now For nearly a quarter-century the Fourth of July in Boulder meant one thing: tens of thousands of people streaming toward Folsom Field at dusk for Ralphie's Independence Day Blast. That era is over. In June 2024 the city confirmed the event had ended after WK Real …

One Parking Lot, Three Continents The Lucky's Market shopping center on North Broadway looks like every other grocery-anchored strip in Boulder — a supermarket at the back, a row of glass storefronts along the curb, a bike rack and a few patio tables out front. What the asphalt hides is that three of those storefronts, …

What Walk & Bike to Work Day Is — and When in 2026 On Wednesday, June 24, 2026, from 6:30 to 9:00 a.m., Boulder runs its biggest cycling morning of the year: Walk and Bike to Work Day. It lands on the fourth Wednesday of June, the date the regional event has held to annually, and it is the headline event of Walk & Bike …