Louisville information

The City of Louisville is a Home Rule Municipality of about 19,000 residents, located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Louisville began as a rough mining community in 1877, suffered through a period of extraordinary labor violence early in the 20th century, and then, when the mines closed in the 1950s, made a transition to suburban residential community. In recent years Louisville has been recognized in three publications as one of the best places to live and raise a family in the United States
In July of 2005, http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/ CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Louisville fifth on their list of the 100 best places to live in the United States. Criteria included financial, housing, education, quality of life, leisure and culture, and weather data.
In May of 2006, Bert Sperling & Peter Sander, authors of the book Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S., ranked Louisville first on their list of best places in the U.S. to raise a family.
In August of 2007, http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/ CNN/Money and Money magazine again ranked Louisville third on their list of the 100 best places to live in the United States.
The City of Louisville offers its residents a Recreation/Senior Center, 26 city parks, extensive open space buffer zones, 20 miles of trails and bicycle paths, and a new $9 million public library with study rooms, teen areas, and a fireside reading room. The Louisville Public Library has long had one of the highest circulation rates in the State of Colorado. (...) more....

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