Special Editions
Performing Arts: Easing into the limelight
Bowing to thunderous applause from proud, camera-wielding parents may just seem like practice for young actors with dreams of Broadway, but for every child, healthy self-esteem is essential to future success. By creating a safe environment, performing arts camps work...
Special Needs: Equal opportunity sporting
For the able-bodied youth population, access to outdoor activity can occur with little to no financial cost. Kids can run, hike and swim without the need for expensive equipment, resources and staff. They engage in physical education programs through their schools ...
Kids Camp Guide 2013 | Introduction
Spending time with positive role models, making in-person social connections, building new skills, developing new knowledge, being exposed to new activities — the list of pragmatic reasons for what children gain from camp is a pretty long one. But let’s take it down ...
Friending off Facebook
When I look back at the summers of my youth, I think of the smell of the outdoors, of canoeing and horseback riding, of archery and s’mores around a campfire with friends. In a word, I think of camp...
Sports: Team, individual camps teach similar lessons
There’s a potential, fencing coach Scott Permer acknowledges, for parents to see individual sports camps as a little lonely...
Vote now: Best of Boulder 2013 survey is now available
UPDATE: The Best of Boulder 2013 survey is now closed. Look for the Best of Boulder edition in print Thursday, April 25...
Flying high
Colorado´s ski industry is the leader in North America for good reason. Visitation to local favorite Vail exceeds 1.5 million skier days each year. That number, 1,750,000 skier days (one skier, skiing one day) last year alone at Vail, means that the ski area has the ...
Fresh winter grub
It´s been a long day up on the mountains and the Clif bar you had earlier did no justice to your hunger. Thankfully, ski resorts and towns in Colorado realize it takes more than just a chewy granola bar to satisfy famished skiers — and they reinvent their dining ...
