Western part of Boulder, Colorado, 1996

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Western part of Boulder, Colorado, 1996

Edited by David Barth February 2016. Photo was taken by David Barth.

Western part of Boulder, Colorado, 1996.

At the far right of this view to the north is the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder. Many buildings have red roofs. The stadium where the Colorado Buffalo football team plays is at the right edge of the photo. The prominent road running northbound is 8th Street, an extension of highway 36 between Denver and Boulder.

Boulder lies next to the foothills, and a few miles west of them is the Continental Divide which runs north from Arizona into Canada. The canyon at the upper left has roads that access the mountains.

CU has become the home of a large technical workfroce employed in research facilities including Lockheed, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), and IBM. NEIC tracks earthquakes around the globe through many sensors that transmit information to Boulder by satellite.

Many companies have had their start in Boulder. In a sense, Boulder is a little like Silicon Valley in California.