Boulder's Child and Teen Friendly City Maps

Click on the map image to use our DIGITAL Boulder Child Friendly City Map & games for kids!

2024 map sponsors listed below; 2025 map sponsors coming soon!
Like the map and want to make one on your community?  You're in luck!  Growing Up Boulder just launched an on-line Child Friendly City Map-Making Course!  To learn more, click here.

Finally, in 2019, we designed a Boulder Teen Friendly City Map.  This digital map is no longer operational, but you can read about it here.

Growing Up Boulder's Child  and Teen Friendly City Maps educate and inspire children, families, and community organizations through the creation of maps co-created with young people and their families to highlight their favorite locations in Boulder. They promote the values of inclusion, diversity, community engagement, collaboration, and celebration.  To learn more about the map-making process, visit this page.

Find free printed maps at: locations such as Visit Boulder, the Visitors' Center on the Pearl Street Mall, Chautauqua, recreation centers, Gateway Fun Center and more.
Not yet a sponsor?  For sponsorship opportunities, contact [email protected].

2025 Online Map Sponsors

About the Maps

PictureAn image of Boulder's 18"x24" printed child-friendly city map.
In 2019, Growing Up Boulder embarked upon a year-long process to co-create the nation's first, printed, bilingual, child friendly city map.  We did so with almost 800 children and families, half of whom were from underrepresented populations.  In May 2019, GUB published the first edition of the printed, bilingual, free map.  In October 2019, we published the second edition of the printed map. ​​

In September 2019, GUB published a digital version of the child friendly city map.  The digital child friendly city map features even more locations than the printed map, and it offers child-friendly walking routes, biking routes, transit links, and child created interactive map games. 

Finally, in December 2019, GUB published a digital teen friendly city map (targeting ages 11-18); this map was created by a team of University of Colorado Masters of the Environment students as their capstone project, under GUB's supervision.  The Masters students worked with more than 400 teens to co-create the map.

Map Project Report

Child Friendly City Map Coverage

*Growing Up Boulder is a nonprofit program working to make Boulder child-friendly. Growing Up Boulder is fiscally sponsored by the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC), EIN: 84-1493585. Since 2009, Growing Up Boulder has worked with over 10,000 local children and youth on more than 100 projects and reached more than 2.5 million people globally.

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