1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (752+ words) After a Boulder hike, a CU game, or a long Pearl Street walk, one important decision remains: french fries or onion rings? Fries may receive more attention, but a well-made onion ring delivers something entirely different. The first bite breaks…...

2+ day, 12+ 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,…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (808+ words) Labor Day is the hinge in Boulder’s water calendar. The Reservoir swim season winds down, the south shoreline’s seasonal dog restriction ends, and plenty of local pups still have time for another warm-weather splash before Colorado’s colder mornings settle in....

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (266+ words) Boulder is beautiful from nearly every angle, but seeing the city from above reveals something entirely different. Today’s Outdoor Picture of the Day captures Boulder, Colorado, on a magnificent summer day. Green fields stretch across the landscape, mature trees fill…...

6+ day, 20+ 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, 1+ 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   (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…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1111+ words) Outside magazine just ranked America’s best mountain bike towns, and a Colorado mountain town took the top spot. Outside ranked Durango No. 1 on its 2026 list, with writer Graham Averill looking beyond sheer trail mileage to the culture that makes a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (854+ words) Footracks cover freshly fallen snow in the Chautauqua Meadow area on March 24, 2016. The NOAA Climate Prediction Center reported in August that El Niño is strengthening, with a greater than 90% chance of a very strong El Niño during fall and winter…...