Local Guide
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.
Published Jul 10, 2026
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
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4 min
