Maps

Boulder | Airport | Hotel | INSTAAR | Lunch Options | Keynote & Dinner

 
Here are a few basic maps and directions. For more detailed maps try your favorite internet mapping site using the folllwing addresses: INSTAAR: 1560 30th Street, Boulder CO 80303. Motel: 770 28th Street. Example: Hotel with Google Maps

Boulder

Boulder Tips

  • US 36 becomes 28th Street.
  • Numbered streets (i.e., 30th St.) run north-south with low numbers to the west (toward the mountains).
  • Campus is to the left (west) at the first light on US 36 in Boulder (Colorado Ave).
  • To head toward downtown (Central Park, Pearl Street Mall) from US 36 (28th street) go left at the second light (Arapahoe St.), the third light (Canyon), or the fifth light (Pearl).

 

Airport

There are a number of viable routes from Denver International Airport to Boulder. Here are the two easiest ones:

Airport option A - Peņa > I-70 > I-270 > US-36

Driving time is about 70 minutes when traffic is light.

  1. Upon leaving the terminal or the rental car area, look for signs marked "Airport Exit" and "To I-70 & I-225 via Peņa Blvd."
  2. Stay on Peņa Blvd until it merges with I-70 westbound. Stay in the left or center lanes to avoid exiting onto I-225 and other cross streets, and continue westbound on I-70 for about 4 miles.
  3. Watch for the I-270 exit on the right, labeled "Westminster/Ft. Collins," that comes at about 14 miles from DIA. It is also labeled Exit 279, "US-36 Boulder." Take I-270 past Quebec, Vasquez, and York Streets, and past I-76 at 18 miles from DIA.
  4. Stay in the left lanes, until you pass under a "US-36 West/Boulder" sign at about 20 miles from DIA. (Do not exit to the right, towards Ft. Collins or Broadway.)
  5. Stay on US-36 into Boulder.

 

Airport option B - Peņa > E-470 > US-36

Driving time is about 50 minutes.
This is a toll route, ~$5.25 in cash required, exact change not needed, about 3 toll booths.

  1. Upon leaving the terminal or the rental car area, look for signs marked "Airport Exit."
  2. Stay on Peņa Blvd for only a few miles until E-470 interchange. Take E-470 North/West.
  3. Stay on E-470, which becomes the Northwest Parkway at I-25.
  4. At end of Northwest parkway, follow signs to Highway 36 West towards Boulder.
  5. Stay on US-36 into Boulder.

 

Hotel

To get the Best Western Boulder Inn (labeled"Hotel" on below map):

Option A

  1. Stay on US-36 into Boulder, go past the Foothills Parkway/Table Mesa/South Boulder Rd exit, and take the Baseline Rd exit to the right, at about 39 miles from DIA.
  2. Go straight through the light at bottom of exit ramp, toward stop sign. Veer left/straight through stop sign. Hotel will be on your right (east) within a few hundred meters.

Option B

  1. Stay on US-36 into Boulder until the first traffic light at Colorado Avenue, about 40 miles from DIA.
  2. Turn right very tightly onto the frontage road paralleling US-36 and head back south about 400 m until you come to the hotel.

 

INSTAAR

From the Airport

  1. Stay on US-36 into Boulder, go past the Foothills Parkway/Table Mesa/South Boulder Rd exit, and take the Baseline Rd exit to the right, at about 39 miles from DIA.
  2. Stay to the right on the exit ramp, and turn right (east) on Baseline Rd. Get in left lane.
  3. Travel to the first stoplight, on 30th Street. Turn left onto 30th street north.
  4. Go through two stoplights until reaching INSTAAR on your right (east) just before Arapahoe Ave. The below map shows Research Buildings RL-1 (71) and RL-3 (73). RL-3 is also called the "ARC" building. Public parking after 5:00 pm is available in the lots adjacent to these buildings. Public parking during the day is available directly west across 30th Street in Scott Carpenter Park.

 

Lunch Options

Lunch is not provided on Wednesday. There are a number of lunch options within 10 min walking distance of INSTAAR, some shown below.

Keynote and Workshop Dinner - Thursday Evening

The Keynote Address and Workshop Dinner will be held in Room 235 of the University Memorial Center, marked UMC on the below map near the intersection of Broadway and Euclid. A paid parking garage is located immeadiately to the southeast of the UMC on Euclid.