1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (690+ words) Sunday is shaping up like one of those early-fall gifts that reminds everyone why they live here. The morning forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and comfortable temperatures before the afternoon heats up. Boulder could reach around 90 degrees, with a…...

2+ day, 9+ 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, 15+ hour ago   (460+ words) Labor Day in Boulder isn’t another productivity pitch. It’s a day to honor the work that keeps this place running—and then actually stop. Labor Day lands differently in Boulder. Most Mondays here begin with motion: a trail before the…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (446+ words) Tim has been alarmingly enthusiastic about movies ever since childhood. He grew up in Boulder and, foolishly, left Colorado to study Communications in Washington State. Making matters worse, he moved to Connecticut after meeting his too-good-for-him wife. Drawn by the…...

1+ week, 1+ 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, 2+ 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   (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, 6+ day ago   (616+ words) There are buildings around Boulder that people pass hundreds of times before realizing how much they mean. Old barns are like that. They stand beside bike paths, beyond open-space trails and along roads that once connected working farms. Some are…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (798+ words) Windom Peak Lands on Backpacker’s 2026 List of America’s Hardest Dayhikes For Boulder hikers accustomed to Longs Peak, the Indian Peaks, and Colorado’s Front Range classics, Windom Peak presents an entirely different kind of challenge. Deep in southwest Colorado’s Needle Mountains,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (768+ words) Longs Peak has always occupied a special place on Colorado’s Front Range. Now one of the country’s best-known outdoor publications has put the mountain on an even bigger stage. Outside included Longs Peak’s legendary Keyhole Route in its feature, “The…...