What's in Boulder?

Mount Sanitas and Bru Beer would be enough to make the 16 hour drive. Mount Sanitas, considered a very popular yet rigorous trail route locally, is a great way to acclimatize to the starting elevation 5,000.  The trailhead here is so close to town that from the Hyatt Place Pearl Street, it is easy enough to bike to, then off and up the Sanitas Valley nearly 2,000 feet to the eventual top where a near handful of Boulder sights lay looming like mountain wonderland, as the Indian Peaks Wilderness and Continental Divide stand out to the right, behind and the south is the top of the first Flatiron Mountain rising above the

Chautauqua Park only a few miles away. Flatirons are the defining landmark of Boulder, a series of mammoth jagged mammoth peaks pushed up out of the earth some 40 million years ago and named after the shape of the old clothes ironing tool, and visible from virtually every angle and every nearby hike.  Below the peaks, nestled in near the famed Pearl Street Main Parkway is Bru Handbuilt Ales

and Eats, of a variety of dozens of brewpubs that dot the city limits.  Owner Ian Clark's approach to this brewpub is the reverse of most others like it – he didn't start with the backyard garage one barrel system and turn it into a restaurant, but instead he began as a fully trained chef who then decided he

wanted to brew craft beer to go along with his cooking creations.  The result are great pairings like the Kolsch with the famous banh mi sandwich or the Amarillo IPA with the chile rubbed hanger steak.