Loop 1 · 4 h window · 70 mi
3 h 32 loop · 5 stops · back by 1:31 PM.
- Boeing B-52B · 10 min
- I See What You Mean · 30 min
- Indeterminate Line · 30 min
- Wildlife Viewing · 15 min
- Davidson Mesa Overlook · 15 min
Destinations · Colorado
Boulder
CO · 40.0159, -105.2792
From Boulder, Colorado, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways, 1 national park, 1 public land unit and 24 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Understand
These days, Boulder wears several hats: as a university town, home of the University of Colorado Boulder and others; as a hi-tech town that is rapidly spawning bedroom communities in outlying farm towns; and as a center of alternate culture, with various new age institutions, Naropa University, meditation centers, Buddhist centers, and the like.
Day-trip loops
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 2 · 8 h window · 173 mi
7 h 44 loop · 7 stops · back by 5:44 PM. Incorporates Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road.
- Celestial Seasonings Tour · 10 min
- Blue Arena · 10 min
- Glacier Knobs (East) · 15 min
- Dream Lake Overlook · 15 min
- Cross · 30 min
- Joel Estes Monument · 30 min
- Hearts on a swing · 30 min
Touches Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road, Cache la Poudre--North Park
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway · 19 mi · national
- Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road · 28 mi · national
National parks
- Rocky Mountain National Park · 18 mi
Public land
Campgrounds
- Gordon Gulch Dispersed Camping Area · 12 mi
- Kelly Dahl Campground · 13 mi
- West Magnolia Trailhead · 13 mi
- Peaceful Valley Campground · 14 mi
- Camp Dick Campground · 15 mi
- Rainbow Lakes Campground · 15 mi
- Caribou Dispersed Camping Area · 16 mi
- Pawnee Campground · 16 mi
Lookouts
- Denver Mountain Parks · 20 mi
- Buffalo Herd Overlook · 21 mi
- Point of Geological Interest · 22 mi
- Jumbo Tron · 22 mi
Named places
- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art · 0 mi
- U.S. bicentennial commemoration/time capsule · 0 mi
- Civil War memorial · 0 mi
- Museum of Boulder at Tebo Center · 0 mi
- Media Archaeology Lab · 0 mi
- Site of the state preparatory school builders first high school 1895 1937 · 0 mi
- Mork & Mindy Show House · 0 mi
- Museum Collections - Bruce Curtis Building · 1 mi
A day out of Boulder, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Arvada · 18 mi
- Golden · 18 mi
- Idaho Springs · 23 mi
- Denver · 24 mi
- Estes Park · 28 mi