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. …

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 …

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, …