Mount Sanitas – Where Boulder Get’s its “Sanity and Health”
Who got a hike this week with the lovely sunny warm days? Most likely you hit up Mount Sanitas for one of those days, since it is literally accessed downtown. The earliest hikers on Mount Sanitas were patients of a group of Seventh Day Adventists, led by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, creator of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and many other early 20th century healthy cereals. Latin for “sanity and health,” it was named for the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium that opened in 1896 on the site of today’s Mapleton Center, at Mapleton Ave. and Fourth Street. Beginning more than a century ago, the “San” was a resort and health spa with claims to cure both body and soul. Part of the regimen included hikes up the mountain–right in the medical facility’s backyard.
The Seventh Day Adventists considered the location to be ideal for tuberculosis patients. The spa-like sanitarium provided a strict regimen of diet, exercise, and therapeutic treatments, while Boulder’s dry climate and high altitude was believed to aid in respiratory health. In 1902, the sanitarium built the classic Sanitas trail up to the summit and advertised it in their brochure that year.
Tuberculosis patients were moved to other facilities in town by 1904, and …read more
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