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Is Boulder a Blue Zone?
Boulder County consistently ranks among the healthiest communities in the United States and boasts one of the highest life expectancies in the country. While Boulder is not officially designated as a Blue Zone, its culture and lifestyle often draw comparisons to the world’s longest-living communities. What is a
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What's New Around Pearl Street: Boulder's Fine-Dining Unbundling
Boulder's 2026 restaurant story isn't more restaurants, it's fine-dining talent unbundling — chefs from Frasca and Sushi Den opening smaller, more shareable rooms you can visit more than once a season. What opened, exactly where, and how the free summer programming fits around it.
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Living in Table Mesa, Boulder: The In-Band Ranch, and What It Really Costs
Table Mesa is where a move-up budget still buys a detached house inside Boulder city, but the vehicle is a 1950s–70s ranch with a finished basement, not a view lot, and it's a stacked cost you underwrite going in. Here's which rung your band reaches, and what the ranch really costs.
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Boulder History
Most Colorado towns boomed with mining and faded when the gold ran out. Boulder was never a major mining town — it supplied them, then bet on education, science and conservation instead. That choice, including a first-in-the-nation open-space tax in 1967, is why the city looks the way it does.
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Living in Niwot, Colorado: A Move-Up Buyer's Guide
Niwot is the most on-segment $1M–$1.5M address in Boulder County, typical value around $1.05M (Zillow ZHVI, 2026), on large lots minutes from Boulder. The premium buys a specific identity: St. Vrain Valley schools (not Boulder Valley), Left Hand water, unincorporated county land.
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Boulder Home Prices and Housing Market Report (Updated Monthly)
Boulder's single-family median is $1,299,900 year to date through August, level with last year, even though the month figure swung from $1,355,000 in July to $1,157,500 in August. Supply is 4.2 months. That median isn't your price: the move-up band straddles it.
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Living in Gunbarrel: The Boulder-Schools Value Play
Gunbarrel is a Boulder-area pocket that keeps Boulder Valley (BVSD) schools while costing less: detached homes run roughly the low-$800Ks to about $1.1M vs a Boulder single-family median of $1,299,900. The catch is the parcel's jurisdiction, part City of Boulder, part unincorporated county.
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Dining in Boulder
Boulder punches far above its size at the table: a Michelin star, a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant winner, and a hand-carved teahouse gifted by a sister city. Ten places worth knowing, what each is actually known for, and which occasion each one fits.
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Wonderland Lake, Boulder: A North Boulder Neighborhood Guide
Wonderland Lake in North Boulder backs permanently protected City of Boulder open space, so the setting can't be built out the way a private view or a nature-adjacent subdivision can. What that permanence is worth, what backing wild land costs, and how the mixed housing stock ranges.