Hartmann Inline Rink: A Nonprofit Rink Sitting Right on the 80301/80304 Line The mailing address at 4800 28th Street carries a Boulder, CO 80301 zip, per the site's own directory listing on AboutBoulder.com — not 80304 — but it sits close enough to North Boulder's own zip line that it belongs in the neighborhood's …

Elks Park: A Neighborhood Nature-Play Spot Next to the Elks Lodge Most Boulder neighborhood parks got their nature-play makeover through a standard city contract. Elks Park got its through a 2014 renovation process that brought the public into the redesign itself, and what came out of it is a play area built around a …

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 …

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 …

Before the Houses: Farms North of Town A hundred years ago, the land along North Broadway was farmland. According to a local history by About Boulder County, the site of today's North Boulder Shopping Center was once the fruit farm of Joseph and Eliza Wolff. Farther north on Broadway there was a seed company, a ranch, …

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 …

North Boulder Is Not a Smaller Downtown In 1985 the Daily Camera called the stretch of North Broadway from Iris Avenue to U.S. 36 "Boulder's last frontier." Reporter Kurt Chandler described it as "a realm of contrasts and contradictions — intimate yet secretive, often coarse, sometimes refined, and never predictable." …