Boulder area - Boulder County
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Chautauqua Dining Hall - great place to eat
Boulder offers amazing views of the flat iron mountains just about anywhere in town.
People that live in Boulder tend to be environmentally aware. For instance you will see just about everyone recycling their trash on the street curb. They also tend to be very fit by staying active with outdoor activities. When in Boulder you will see more people running, hiking, biking than most towns in the US. On the political side people in Boulder tend to be at the opposite end for the rest of the people in Colorado.
Boulder has a very limited growth rate for housing. This causes housing prices and home rental prices for single family homes and condos to be priced extremely high. The reason for the limited growth is Boulder's willingness to purchase all the outlining areas into open space.
One of my favorite places to eat Sunday bunch is at Chautauqua Dining Hall. This works well just after doing some nearby hiking. The homes around Chautauqua Park are very expensive because of the great location and being close to campus.
Crossroads Mall in Boulder which took a pounding from Flat Irons Crossing Mall just recently under went a massive demo and reconstruction effect in 2006.
Boulder is known for the University of Colorado main campus. One of the things I love the best about the campus is the architecture, all the roof tops are made from the same material giving it an almost Tuscan style.
Things to do in Boulder: NCAR - if you get a chance drive up to NCAR (6,000') and check out the free tour they have on atmospheric science and the great view looking down at Boulder. This is great activity for the kids. Behind NCAR are some outstanding hiking trials too. Bolder Boulder Race - each Memorial Day weekend is the Bolder Boulder 10K running race. It is one of the largest 10K's in the US. Boulder Kinetics - around the first weekend in May is a crazy race in Boulder called Kinetics, put on by KBCO the local radio station travels over water and land.
Pearl Street Mall - good place to walk
Pearl Street Mall is a great place to walk and look around and eat. I don't shop there normally because it is too expensive. If you get a chance to walk the mall around mother's day you are in for a treat because they have just a ton of tulips all around the mall.
Neighborhoods: Arapahoe Ridge, Aurora 7, Basemar, Canon Park, Centennial, Columbine, Country Club, Devil's Thumb, Flagstaff, Frasier Meadows, Glenwood Grove, Highland Park, Industural East Boulder, Mapleton Hill, Martin Acres, Moores, North Boulder Park, Old Town, Olde Stage, Original Town Boulder, Palo Park, Pine Brook Hills, Rock Creek, Rural North Boulder, Southeast Boulder, Table Mesa, University Hill, Whittier and Wonderland Hill.
Some of my favorite places to eat are: Mediterranean (The Med), Brasserie Ten Ten, West End Tavern and for really good margs the Rio. Good place to have a beer is at Old Chicago.
Watch out when you park in Boulder, don't let the meter run out because those meter people are very fast at handing out tickets.
Boulder has around 100,000 people at a little over 5,400' feet. The weather is mostly sunny and very dry. It can feel nice in warm in the winter because of the sun but it gets pretty cold at night. The wind can really pick up with gusts up to 90 mph, mostly the high winds come in the winter. When it does snow it melts pretty fast because the sun is so intense. Sometimes is gets too dry and the lawns get brown pretty fast. The towns surrounding Boulder have nice green lawns, but for the most part homes in Boulder have not so nice lawns because Boulder residents are environmentally friendly and like to save water.
Some of the major employers in Boulder are: University of Colorado, IBM, Ball Aerospace, NCAR, Tyco International, Amgen, Lockheed Martin and Celestial Seasonings. In most of these high tech companies you will see that people that work in Boulder dress in jeans without a suit and tie. When I worked for a chip manufacturer in Boulder I wore shorts most of the time. During the lunch hour you will see lots of people traveling down some of the many bike paths, everyone is dresses real casually.
Boulder is about 30 minutes from Denver (without traffic), about 50 minutes to the airport and about 1 hour from Estes Park.