Ciel of Boulder

Ciel of Boulder, an independent living community at 801 Gillaspie Drive in Boulder, Colorado, offers six floor plans that carry the names Vail, Aspen, Breckenridge and Durango. The Vail I and Vail II are one-bedroom suites of 620 square feet, while the Aspen, Aspen II and Breckenridge open up to two bedrooms across 983 square feet. At the top of the range, the Durango is a two-bedroom deluxe plan with 1,132 square feet, and suites start at $6,375 a month, a figure to confirm directly with the community before planning a move.

Support at Ciel of Boulder centers on the practical parts of running a home. Staff take on the housekeeping, and home maintenance and repairs are handled by the team as well. An emergency response system is in place, and the building hosts an on-site Low-Vision Program offering professional rehabilitation services. Scheduled transportation services and life enrichment programs are also offered to residents.

Meals come from a full-service, restaurant-style dining room, where chefs prepare dishes with locally sourced ingredients. Around those meals, the calendar holds walking clubs, game nights, cookouts and coffee hours, along with happy hours that bring in live music. Spiritual gatherings and outings appear on the schedule as well, and residents can keep track of upcoming events through the LifeLoop app.

Indoors, a fitness center, a game room with billiards, an on-site theatre, a library and a beauty and barber shop share the building. Beyond the dining room, common spaces in the building are set aside for dining as well as socializing. Outside, a courtyard with a pond and walking paths sits on the grounds, and an outdoor patio offers seating in the open air. Inside the suites, apartment features include an in-suite washer and dryer, walk-in closets and individually controlled heating and air conditioning.

Kitchens come with a refrigerator, and a cable hookup, a porch and an outdoor patio are also part of the listed apartment features. Independent living at Ciel of Boulder is pet-friendly as well. The community is set up for older adults who live independently in their own one- or two-bedroom suite and want meals, cleaning and home upkeep handled for them. The two-bedroom plans, from the Aspen to the Durango deluxe, suit residents who want more space than the 620-square-foot Vail suites.

Independent living at Ciel of Boulder is offered without personal care or nursing services. It also suits residents who want a pet in the household, a courtyard with walking paths on the grounds and a social calendar that runs from coffee hours to cookouts. On Gillaspie Drive itself, the South Boulder Recreation Center stands at 1360 Gillaspie, with an indoor lap pool and pickleball on offer. The Table Mesa King Soopers sits where Gillaspie Drive meets Table Mesa Drive, and Foothills Hospital, part of Boulder Community Health at 4747 Arapahoe Avenue, lies a little under two and a half miles to the north-northeast in a straight line.

Across the wider Boulder area, destinations include Pearl Street Mall, the Boulder Farmers Market and the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Chautauqua Park, the Flatirons Vista Trail and Eldorado Canyon State Park are among the outdoor destinations in the Boulder area.