Pearl Street Arts Fest: Boulder's July Art Show Every July, the Pearl Street Mall turns into an outdoor gallery for a weekend. Pearl Street Arts Fest is a free, juried art show where artists from Colorado and many other states sell their work from booths along the mall. It is produced by Downtown Boulder Community …

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: 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 …