Boulder Travel Blog

If you’re an athlete, sculptor, artist, or engineer — or if you aspire to be any of these things — then Boulder Kinetics is your summer event. Teams race handmade human-powered vehicles over land and water, accompanied by elaborate costumes, whimsical songs, and over-the-top vehicular decoration....

Springtime in Boulder is ideal for reveling in the bounty of the season. With over 50 artists and 20,000 attendees, everyone comes out to relax and enjoy themselves at the Boulder Springfest, happening this year along the Pearl Street Mall on May 14 & 15 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. each day. Savor...

Here in Boulder, we treasure the live music experience. And with May just around the corner, it’s getting time to put away the skis and stroll down the Pearl Street Mall. Come create a new Spring tradition in Boulder at the Pearl Street Music and Arts Festival on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May...

This year, the University of Colorado has won Playboy magazine’s “No. 1 party school in the nation” accolade, in part due to CU’s annual 4/20 “reefer madness” smokeout, as they call it. Every year on April 20th, thousands and thousands of students and community members...

The Boulder Farmers’ Market is open for the season, which runs from April until October. For this first month, it is only open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., but starting in May it will also be open on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. A local treasure, this is one of the best farmers’...

Tomorrow begins one of my favorite weeks in Boulder. The Conference on World Affairs (CWA) is an annual event, and this year it is being held from April 4 – 8. Founded in 1948 as a forum on international affairs, the conference has expanded to encompass nearly every other aspect of life, including...

Several Boulder County restaurants are supporting the Boulder County AIDS Project (BCAP) with an event called “Dining Out Days.” On one specified day each month, a select restaurant donates 10 to 25% of its sales to this non-profit organization. Next month, on Thursday, April 7, Black Cat Farm to...

Boulder has only one Irish pub. And if drunken masses and green beer are what you’re after, Conor O’Neills is the place to be this St. Patty’s Day! On Thursday, they’ll be open starting at 8 a.m. and will have Irish dancers, bagpipers, and a local bluegrass band, Mumbouli, playing...

A new restaurant has opened in North Boulder serving authentic, vegetarian cuisine from South America. Zudaka is owned by a husband and wife team from Colombia and Venezuela, respectively. The highlight of their menu are their arepas, which are traditional Venezuelan corn meal pockets. These gluten-free...

Frozen Dead Guy Days is a bizarre festival held in Nederland, a small mountain town 30 minutes from Boulder, based around a cryogenically-frozen grandfather kept in a shack behind a local resident’s house. The tale of how he got there has captured international attention and sparked this annual event....