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: 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 …

Three Places to Eat Beside Lucky's Market The shopping center around Lucky's Market on North Broadway has a supermarket, a bakery and cafe, and a short row of other places to eat. Three of them sit a few doors apart and have very different stories. China Gourmet has been run by the same owners for more than 35 years. …

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 …