Bookstores in Golden

Bookstores reward the browsers. Golden, BC has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped bookstore in Golden for now — treasure it, and check the used shelves first.

This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Golden (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Four Points Books. If a bookshop's missing from Golden's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Golden bookstore lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about bookstores in Golden

1 of the 1 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.

The one mapped bookstore sits on 409 9th Avenue North — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Bookstore tips for Golden

A few things worth knowing before you work through Golden's bookstores:

• Bring a tote bag at Four Points Books. Bookshops and tote bags are a natural pair. You'll need it — nobody leaves with the one book they came for.
• Support the shop's own publishing. Some independents publish local authors or print their own anthologies. Buying them funds the ecosystem directly.
• The used section is underpriced everywhere. Books are heavy and slow to sell, so used shelves price to move. First editions hide here regularly.
• Buy the signed copy. Signed stock costs the same as unsigned and only goes up in charm. Ask at the till; shops often have signed copies behind the counter.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Golden — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Golden can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 1 that's closed, or a great bookstore we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.

If you run one of the 1 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.