Past Events

Spring has sprung and we have gardening on our minds! We will be waking up our farm and gardens next month and would love for you to join us for our celebratory Spring Dig-In Days. Come dig in the dirt with us and help us start our summer garden in Gunnison. Come prepared with your water bottle and sun protection and get ready to have fun. A volunteer local food BBQ will be included.

Join the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) as we celebrate our 7th birthday with the help of our friends at The Trek, Fourpoints Bar, and the High Lonesome 100 Endurance Run! CDTC's Birthday comes on the heels of Colorado Public Lands Day (May 18), so join us in celebrating our shared passion for Public Lands - Miners Saloon will donate 10% of sales during the event to support CDTC's mission to complete, promote, and protect the Continental Divide Trail, and…

Bud Werner Memorial Library and Yampa Valley Sustainability Council present GROUNDED, an evening of multimedia storytelling in honor of Colorado Public Lands Day and in celebration of our nation’s public lands. This year’s free live show includes videos, photos, stories, poems, sketches, song and improv.

Summit County local Tom Koehler will share some history of public lands as well as some of the challenges we now face.

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council invites community members and visitors to an informal networking event at Mountain Tap Brewery in celebration of Colorado Public Lands. Dylan Roberts, State Representative for House District 26, Eagle County and Routt County, will be at the event to provide updates on recent statewide public lands, climate action and other environmental legislation. Sarah Jones, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Executive Director, and Tim Corrigan, Routt County Commissioner, will also speak about the importance of public lands. Speakers…

Help celebrate our public lands this Colorado Public Lands Day by getting your boots on the ground for a marijuana grow site clean-up with the Forest Service on Colorado Public Lands Day Saturday, May 18! Anyone is welcome to camp the night before (May 17), but it’s not required. USFS has reserved the Hayden Creek campground outside Coaldale for us. Saturday morning we will meet at the Coaldale Community Center, then head out around 8 a.m. to clean up the…

Let's Go Rafting! Save 15% off whitewater rafting trips on Colorado Public Lands Day with Performance Tours Rafting. Book online using discount code PUBLICLANDS to receive 15% off your whitewater rafting adventure. This offer only applies to trips ON May 18, 2019 and cannot be combined with other offers.

Spend Colorado Public Lands Day giving back to your favorite trail! In partnership with the US Forest Service, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers is holding a community volunteer event on Mitchell Creek Trail in West Glenwood Springs. Volunteer work is open to all ages and will include trimming dense brush, clearing drainages, and stabilizing stone steps at creek crossings. This overgrown trail follows Mitchell Creek and has direct access to the Flat Tops Wilderness. Please register at RFOV.org

Stop by the Moose Visitors Center for the guidelines. This is a fun way to get out and recreate on park. Once you are finished, post your pictures on Instagram or on Facebook and tag State Forest State Park. Add #ColoradoPublicLandsDay. We will select a winner for the best pictures and send you your prize. The last day to submit your photos is May 22nd. No inappropriate photos,follow all the park rules and regulations, stay on the designated trails, Leave…