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Five Boulder-area trails to spin your wheels on
MORE INFO Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance has great list of local rides at bma-mtb.org. Have you ever seen a more bike-centric town outside of China or the Netherlands? Boulder's bike...
Five first-rate Boulder-area road rides
MORE INFO For more road rides and local maps, visit trails.com. Want to breathe like Lance Armstrong in the mountains? Ride the mountains. There are myriad route variations for huffing...
Five great Boulder-area hikes
MORE INFO Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks (bouldercolorado.gov) and Colorado State Parks (parks.state.co.us) have great local trail information, as does protrails.com for Front Range hikes. According to the city...
Five (or six) summitable Colorado 14ers
MORE INFO Colorado Fourteeners Initiative has extremely detailed trail descriptions, photos, GPS coordinates and topo map suggestions at 14ers.org. Get off the Hill and into some real hills. Colorado has...
Five ripping Colorado ski resorts
ON THE WEB For more information about Colorado's generous heaping of ski resorts, visit coloradoski.com. With about 25 downhill ski resorts in the state, Colorado is the unrivaled ski capital...
Five great alternative Boulder-area passtimes
Not everyone is into all (or any) of the classic outdoor sports Boulder has on offer. But this town has plenty of fun, creative outlets for you, too. Most city...
Five Colorado ski spots worth hiking to
ON THE WEB The Boulder Outdoor Club offers avalanche clinics and snow reports at boc123.com, and summitpost.org has trail information. Ski lifts are great, but lift tickets are expensive and...
Five excellent Boulder-area climbs
MORE INFO For more route descriptions of local climbs, visit rockclimbing.com and summitpost.org. The iconic Flatirons have been attracting rock climbers since the 19th century, to say nothing of the...
Five top Boulder-area running trails
MORE INFO USA Track and Field's Web site, usatf.org, has a feature called America's Running Routes that list 484 runs in the Boulder area from half-mile to 75-plus-mile routes. You...
Skate Colorado: A few area skateparks to choose from
There are 23 skateboard parks along the Front Range, according Coskate.com, which has directions to each location and helpful descriptions. Skateboarding has other popular disciplines, such as longboarding and slalom,...