Hidden bars & speakeasies in Boulder
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Boulder? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Gold Hill Inn, Boulder Ghost Tours, Caribou Ghost Town and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Boulder they'd never find on their own.
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Gold Hill Inn
The pavement quits partway up the canyon, and when the washboard levels out you are in Gold Hill — population…
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Boulder Ghost Tours
Departing nightly from the 1890s-era Spruce Mansion at 1123 Spruce Street, Boulder Ghost Tours leads 75-minut…
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Caribou Ghost Town
At 10,000 feet in the mountains west of Nederland, Caribou was once one of Colorado's most productive silver…
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Gold Hill General Store and Pub
Gold Hill was the first permanent mining camp in the Colorado mountains — gold was struck on January 16, 1859…
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License No. 1 (The Catacombs)
Descend a full floor below street level beneath the Hotel Boulderado — a Victorian landmark that opened New Y…
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Nora's Speakeasy
Opened in 2023 in the basement of The Simon events venue, Nora's is Louisville's quietly kept secret — entere…
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The Sink
Boulder's oldest bar, open since 1923 in a sunken basement space on The Hill near CU, The Sink is equal parts…
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Train Cars Coffee & Kava
Three century-old railroad cars sit side by side at 8,236 feet on the Peak to Peak Highway in Nederland, and…