2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (387+ words) Views from Mount Sanitas, Boulder At 6,843 feet above Boulder, sunrise on Mount Sanitas feels like a private performance staged above the city. For generations of Boulder residents, climbing Mount Sanitas has been more than a hike. It is a ritual,…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (997+ words) The drive from Denver’s western edge to the Eisenhower Tunnel should take less than an hour. An Outside reporter timed it at two hours and fifteen minutes from the Dino Lots to the tunnel—on a stretch that should take…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (642+ words) There is something unmistakably Boulder about cold mountain water moving beneath cottonwood trees on a warm summer afternoon. Today’s Outdoor Picture of the Day captures Boulder Creek beside Eben G. Fine Park, where the water emerges from Boulder Canyon and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (387+ words) Boulder Flatirons from NCAR From the NCAR mesa on a clear summer afternoon, the camera looks north along the tilted sandstone wall. The great slabs appear stacked one behind another, gradually receding toward Chautauqua’s green meadows and historic auditorium. It…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (839+ words) Locals call the steep west-side climb Boulder’s outdoor StairMaster. Visitors remember the picture: pink-red boulders, a rugged summit marker, and the city spread out below. That scene is Mount Sanitas—pronounced SAN-i-tuhs—and it begins only minutes from downtown Boulder....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (426+ words) Some Boulder dogs hike mountains. Others patrol Pearl Street, chase tennis balls across neighborhood parks, or curl up beneath café tables. Today’s Dogs of the Day, however, are happiest with their paws in the water. Captured on a beautiful summer…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (607+ words) Today’s Outdoor Picture of the Day captures one of those Boulder scenes that seems to contain the entire spirit of summer in a single frame. A rugged red-dirt trail winds near Green Mountain beneath a brilliant Colorado sky. Ponderosa pines…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (714+ words) Fall wellness in Boulder does not begin with a New Year’s resolution. It starts when the first cool morning reaches the Flatirons, the farmers market tables fill with squash and apples, and the University of Colorado campus comes alive with…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (23+ words) Motivational Monday: John Muir and a Fresh Start Photo by Eilis Garvey aboutboulder.com What can we help you find? Latest Faces of Boulder...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (771+ words) John Muir left a note in the margin of a book he loved. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” He wrote it in his copy of Emerson’s Prose Works, a…...