Transportation From DIA

Transportation From DIA

Various options to get to Boulder from DIA are described below.

* Rental Cars
* Other Ground Transportation 

Super Shuttle Boulder

Boulder Office: 303-227-0000
Denver Office: 303-370-1300
Departs DIA for Boulder at 10 minutes past every hour, from 6:10am to 11:10pm. No reservations needed. Travel time is about 70 minutes. Rates vary so check online, or you can book your ticket ahead of time online.You can also get tickets on Level 5 (baggage claim level) across from Hertz near Door #510.

RTD Bus Service

303-299-6000  skyRide: $8.00, $10.00 or $12.00 one way to several park-n-rides, and the Boulder downtown bus station. It is recommended to take the AB bus to and from Denver that leaves hourly from DIA at about 15 minutes after the hour from 6:15AMto 11:18PM Mon-Fri, 6:15AM to 11:20PM Saturday and Sunday.  From Boulder to DIA, buses depart the downtown station at about 20 minutes after the hour starting in the wee hours (3:17AM every day) and ending at 9:35PM. A typical scheduled time is 96 minutes. Here's the complete bus schedule for the airport route.

Boulder Yellow Cab

303-777-2277 Not too pricey if you don't take it all the way from the airport. If you take the RTD bus to the main bus terminal in Boulder (at 14th and Walnut), you can get almost anywhere in town for a couple of bucks.

Passenger Car

There are two ways to drive from the airport to Boulder: via the freeways for 45 miles or via a mix of streets and freeways for 40 miles. Both seem to take about 55 minutes assuming no snow or ice.

Freeways

Exit from the airport onto Pena Boulevard (the only choice out of the airport) and go about 12 miles (from the parking lots, about 8 miles from the toll booths) to I70. Take I70 west to I25 north (about 10 miles), exit right onto I25 north and continue about 5 miles to the US 36 west exit (marked Boulder). Take US 36 west about 20 miles to Boulder.

Streets

 Exit from the airport onto Pena Boulevard (the only choice out of the airport) and go about a mile (a mile from the toll booths, easily 5 miles from the parking lots) to Tower Road. Take Tower Road north (right turn) a few miles to a traffic light at 104th Street. Turn left (west) and go about 10 or 15 miles to US 36 west. Turn right on US 36 (west) and continue about 10 to 15 miles to Boulder.

Within Boulder US 36 becomes 28th Street; numbered streets run north-south with low numbers to the west (toward the mountains). Campus is to the left at the first light on US 36 in Boulder; to get downtown go left at the second light on US 36 (Arapahoe), the third light (Canyon), or the fifth light (Pearl). Hotels listed as on 28th St are on an access road just east of US 36 as you get into Boulder.