Boulder, UT

Boulder is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States, 27 miles northeast of Escalante on Utah Scenic Byway 12 at its intersection with the Burr Trail. The 2020 census counted 227 residents. Boulder, quite isolated until the Civilian Conservation Corps built a road from Escalante, did not get electric power until 1947. The town marks the western terminus of Burr Trail, a mostly paved road that runs eastward through spectacular red rock country to the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park.

The American Discovery Trail bicycle alternate route runs through Boulder. The short version is that Boulder carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Boulder: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Boulder is the home of Anasazi Indian State Park. Boulder is near Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef National Park. Boulder also has many sandstone formations, such as small mountains and slopes.