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 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, …