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Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch is one of the largest master-planned communities in the United States, developed beginning in the late 1980s on a former cattle ranch south of Denver and built out in phases over subsequent decades to reach a population of well over 100,000 residents, despite remaining, unusually for a community of that size, an unincorporated area rather than its own independent city. The community was built around a network of distinct residential villages, each with its own recreation center, parks, and schools, a planning approach specifically designed to give a large-scale development a sense of smaller, more identifiable neighborhoods rather than one undifferentiated suburban sprawl. The Highlands Ranch Mansion, a Tudor Revival house built in the early 20th century as the centerpiece of the original cattle ranch, has been preserved as a historic site and event venue, giving the otherwise entirely modern, master-planned community a direct physical link back to the working ranch land it was built on top of. Highlands Ranch's combination of being one of the largest master-planned communities in the country, a village-based planning structure designed to create smaller neighborhood identities within a large development, and a preserved historic ranch mansion at its center has made it one of the more distinctive large-scale suburban developments anywhere in the Denver metro area.
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Boulder, CO
Boulder sits at the foot of the Flatirons, a dramatic set of angled sandstone rock formations that form the backdrop to the city's western edge, and that direct proximity to serious hiking and rock-climbing terrain right at the edge of downtown has made Boulder one of the most nationally recognized outdoor-recreation-oriented cities of its size in the entire country. The University of Colorado Boulder's main campus, with its distinctive rural Italian-influenced sandstone architecture, anchors the city's identity as a genuine college town, and the school's research programs in aerospace and atmospheric science have drawn a substantial concentration of federal research labs, including NOAA and NIST facilities, to the surrounding area. Pearl Street Mall, a pedestrian-only outdoor shopping and dining corridor established in 1977, was one of the earlier successful car-free downtown retail districts built in an American city and remains one of Boulder's most consistently active gathering spaces, drawing street performers and year-round foot traffic to its four-block stretch. Boulder's combination of dramatic, immediately accessible mountain scenery, a major research university, and one of the country's earlier and more enduring pedestrian downtown districts has made it one of the most nationally recognized small cities for outdoor lifestyle and quality of life anywhere in the Denver metro area, even as its strict growth-boundary policies have kept housing among the most expensive in the state.
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