Happy Thursday: Three Decades of Thursday Nights Since the 1990s, 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 The Boulder Creek Path runs 5.5 miles from Boulder Canyon on the west end to the Stazio Ballfields just past 55th Street on the east. Where the main arteries of central Boulder would otherwise break the route, the path uses underpasses at many crossings — a design …

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 ran its biggest cycling morning of the year: Walk and Bike to Work Day. The 2026 event has passed; it returns each June as the headline event of Walk & Bike Month, a full June calendar of rides and walks …

A Taos Kid Who Won Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg grew up in Taos, New Mexico, won the fifth season of Bravo's Top Chef in 2009, and could have opened his next restaurant anywhere in the country. In 2017 he put it on a quiet stretch of Alpine Avenue in North Boulder and filled the menu with the food he was raised on. Santo …

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. …