Customize a bee hotel to give native bees a place to nest and improve your yard’s habitat value.

Help us carry the light through the dark season with a fun and festive walk around Waneka Lake.

Learn how to start your native seeds outdoors during the cold season. All materials provided.

As the stillness of December grips Coal Creek, we’ll bundle up and venture out into a sleeping world. Winter is the season of darkness, which draws us ever closer together as we lean on each other for community and support in the leanest of the seasons.

The Coal Creek beaver moved on, but we can still celebrate the wonderful contributions beavers made to our ecosystem under November’s full moon — the beaver moon.

Come out to remove Russian olive, an invasive species, from the riparian area near the Colorado Tech Center in Louisville.

Learn to protect your home from wildfire with the right native plants and planting strategies from landscape designer Curtis Manning of Meadow Pro.

The first full moon of fall — the harvest moon — is here. Join us under its generous light for a hike from Aquarius Open Space in Louisville.

Join us for an evening of food, games, music and community to benefit Friends of Coal Creek!

Learn to protect your home from wildfire with the right native plants and planting strategies from landscape designer Curtis Manning of Meadow Pro.

September’s full moon is often known as the corn moon, since its light allowed farmers to harvest crops into the night.

Join the scientific census of wild bumble bees in Boulder County.

Catch and release native bumble bees as part of the Xerces Society’s annual census.

Join poet Erin Robertson for a writing workshop that explores and examines textures along Coal Creek. No writing experience necessary. Open to all ages.

Join the Friends of Coal Creek artists-in-residence for a reception to celebrate their show Textures of Coal Creek, hanging at the Louisville Library through the end of August.

A fun and easy service project to gather up seeds from the library’s native gardens

A volunteer event to help prep the wall for the new mural. All ages welcome!

Experience the bats of Coal Creek on a full-moon outing led by Brett Riddle, professor emeritus of Life Sciences at UNLV.

Celebrate Disability Pride Month with us under July’s “buck” moon.

Louisville Bee City USA’s Pollinator Garden Tour is a self-guided walking tour featuring gardens that use native plants and avoid pesticides. Kids under 12 free with a parent/guardian.

Join Lafayette Friends of the Garden for the 2025 Old Town Garden Tour, a leisurely, self-guided tour of some of the finest gardens in town. Friends of Coal Creek will be tabling in Festival Plaza.

Our full moon hike series continues under June’s “strawberry” moon.

An outing in Superior to see how bird habitat has regenerated after the Marshall Fire.

Make your garden count by planting native plants for pollinators! Plus: Free plants and advice from CSU Extentsion’s Master Gardeners (while supplies last).

Our Full Moon Hikes series returns under May’s Flower Moon.

Rock Creek is a tributary of Coal Creek, and a pretty fantastic place to look for shorebirds, waterfowl and the famous bald eagles.

Free native seeds, anyone?

Protect your home from wildfire by using the right native plants and planting strategies.

Teasel season is on. Come out for a tussle.