48 Hours in Boulder - National Geographic Traveler

This just in! Here's an exciting article about the city of Boulder, CO written in National Geographic. Maybe there is something about this place.

It's been called the smartest city in America, the thinnest city in America, the best place for a runner or an überjock, and the top green and clean city in the United States. You have to wonder: Where is this perfect place? To find it, head about an hour's drive outside Denver to Boulder, Colorado, a city of 100,000 people and a university town at the foot of the Rockies' Front Range. "You've got 45,000 acres of open space and a hell of a natural park," says Jim Philips, a naturalist for the city of Boulder, explaining its charms. But that's not all: "It's the air and the mountains—it's everything."

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