https://www.boulderweather.com/tags/snow-removal/Recent content in Snow Removal on BoulderWeather.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBoulderweather.comFri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.boulderweather.com/post/why-boulder-plows-bike-paths-before-the-streets/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.boulderweather.com/post/why-boulder-plows-bike-paths-before-the-streets/ <h2 id="bike-paths-as-transportation-infrastructure-not-recreation">Bike Paths as Transportation Infrastructure, Not Recreation</h2> <p>Which streets get a plow first after a Front Range storm is less about geography than about a policy choice: Boulder treats its multi-use path network — the <a href="https://www.boulderweather.com/neighborhoods/downtown-boulder/">Boulder Creek Path</a> and the corridors that feed it — as part of the transportation system, not as a recreational amenity that waits its turn behind residential streets. That framing matters because it changes the order operations crews work in during and after a storm. A city that classifies a path as recreation typically clears it last, if at all, once every street is done. A city that classifies the same path as a commuting route treats it the way it treats a bus corridor or an arterial: something that has to be usable early in the storm cycle, not eventually.</p>