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Boulder Creek WebcamWant to know what the weather's really like? Check out the webcam to see if there's snow on the ground or ice on the creek. Boulder's winter weather is mild and suprisingly there isn't snow on the ground very often.
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Tours
Great ways
to discover
secret places
Would you like to tour a brewery, a tea factory or a place that makes ice cream? Or take a dining tour, a bicycle tour, or a historic walking tour? Boulder is full of options and some of them are free.Tours are the best way to discover secret places and special people. They are how to become an expert and to see, first-hand, what the Boulder lifestyle is all about. A bunch of tours have recently popped up that offer all kinds of ways to discover Boulder. From an easy two-hour walking tour through downtown Boulder that includes a picturesque bridge across Boulder Creek to a 20-minute tour of a vodka distillery where the equipment is all reclaimed and re-purposed, here are ways to get started.
· Free Tours
· Historic Tours
· Custom Tours
· Brewery, Winery, Distillery Tours
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Boulder's love affair with tea started in the late 1960's when the founders of Celestial Seasonings collected herbs, stuffed them into hand-sewn muslin bags and sold them to a local store. Forty years later, it has grown into the largest specialty tea manufacturer in North America. They offer free tours every day. Boulder is also home to the only authentic Tajik teahouse in the Northern Hemisphere. The spectacular Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse is open every day. Stop in for tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner, or simply walk in a have a look around. They host the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival every July. Here is a list of other tea houses (and coffee shops) in town. Also, if you like to enjoy loose tea away from home, a Boulder company has what you need. The Tuffy Tea Steeper is on the Dr. Oz Hot List and it's made by Boulder's own the Tea Spot.
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Top 10 Winter TownsBoulder makes the list
National Geographic Traveler names Boulder as one of the Top 10 Winter Towns in its January/February issue. The magazine picked the towns with the help of its social media fans and one of them wrote, "Ski the nearby mountains in the morning; bike ride in Boulder in the afternoon!" We couldn't agree more. Skiing at Eldora Mountain Resort is just 30 minutes away from downtown Boulder and the Boulder Ski Escape Package is Colorado's most affordable ski vacation. Packages start at $67.50 per person which include lodging PLUS a lift ticket and run through April 10.
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Events and LodgingComprehensive Information
Here's a one stop shop that lists all of Boulder's lodging options. It's where you'll find listings, photos and websites of each of the hotels, motels, B&B's, and other accommodation options in town. And when we say "in town" we mean it! All of them are located within the city limits of Boulder.
As far as events go, the interactive events calendar can help you plan things to do while you're visiting. Coming up this spring is A Taste of Pearl, The Boulder Bach Festival and the Boulder Creek Festival.
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Astronauts in Boulder
Shoot for the moon
 As NASA's 30 year shuttle program winds down with the last of the shuttle flights, Boulder will keep an eye on the sky and shoot for the moon. The University of Colorado at Boulder has a long history of astronauts (CU alumni have flown 39 missions) and will continue to play a role in NASA's future. In 1962, Scott Carpenter flew in with Project Mercury. He was born and raised in Boulder and his boyhood home is located at the corner of 7th Street and Aurora and why he named his spacecraft the Aurora 7. There is a park named after him where kids can play in an aeronautical-themed playground - it's located at 30th and Arapahoe. In 2009, Steve Swanson, a CU Boulder alum, flew on Discovery and walked in space. Just recently, a CU professor, Waleed Abdalati, was named the chief scientist of NASA. This is fun - there is a 35 foot tall rocket, which flew in space, at the entrance to the movie theater at the Twenty Ninth Street shopping mall.
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