Upcoming events at Coal Creek.
Mural Prep Day
Family fun at the mural prep day in 2025.
Come put your mark on the new mural at the Public Road trailhead in Lafayette.
It’s mural prep and we’ll be working alongside artist Stacey Reynolds to get the wall ready for its makeover. Activities will include priming and the creation of a “doodle grid” so Stacey can ensure her mural is on the wall properly.
This is a fun, family-friendly event open to all.
Poetry Reading the Full Moon Walk
Join us for a lovely evening by the creek in Lafayette.
The event will feature readings by Erin Robertson, Friends of Coal Creek’s outgoing artist-in-residence, written during her residency, as well as an introduction to our incoming artist-in-residence.
After the reading, we will head east on the Coal Creek Trail to view the rising full moon. Erin lead a year’s worth of monthly full moon hikes and this seems a lovely way to send her off with gratitude for the work she’s done and the people’s she’s reached during her residency.
Agenda
7-7:30 PM Poetry reading
7:30-8:30 PM Full-moon Walk
2nd Annual BeeBQ Bash Fundraiser
Join us for an evening of food, games, music and community to benefit Friends of Coal Creek!
Lafayette Garden Tour
Friends of Coal Creek is glad to participate in the Lafayette Garden Tour again this year. Join us on Saturday, June 20 at Festival Plaza for information, workshops, and more, then pick up your map of the Lafayette Garden Tour and visit some of finest gardens in town.
Spring Flyway Bird Walk
Come bird the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon with local bird expert Peter Ruprecht. All levels welcome. Event limited to 14 people.
Spring Plant Sale
Native plants, garden ornamentals and house plants to support two local nonprofits.
Coal Creek Water Dance Free Performance
Join us for a free water dance performance, featuring professional dancers, choreography by Maren Waldman and poetry by Erin Robertson.
Coal Creek Water Dance Workshop
Explore your relationship to our waters through movement and dance.
Fire-wise Gardening Workshop - Erie
Learn to protect your home from wildfire with the right native plants and planting strategies from landscape designer Curtis Manning of Meadow Pro.
Bee Hotel Workshop
Customize a bee hotel to give native bees a place to nest and improve your yard’s habitat value.
Lantern Walk at Waneka Lake
Help us carry the light through the dark season with a fun and festive walk around Waneka Lake.
Sowing Seeds in Winter Workshop
Learn how to start your native seeds outdoors during the cold season. All materials provided.
Cold Moon Hike
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.
Beaver Moon Hike
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.
Russian Olive Removal
Come out to remove Russian olive, an invasive species, from the riparian area near the Colorado Tech Center in Louisville.
Fire-wise Gardening Workshop - Louisville Fall 2025
Learn to protect your home from wildfire with the right native plants and planting strategies from landscape designer Curtis Manning of Meadow Pro.
Harvest Moon Hike
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.
So Long Summer BeeBQ Bash
Join us for an evening of food, games, music and community to benefit Friends of Coal Creek!
Fire-wise Gardening Workshop - Erie POSTPONED
Learn to protect your home from wildfire with the right native plants and planting strategies from landscape designer Curtis Manning of Meadow Pro.
Full Moon Hike: Corn Moon
September’s full moon is often known as the corn moon, since its light allowed farmers to harvest crops into the night.
Bumble Bee Census #1
Catch and release native bumble bees as part of the Xerces Society’s annual census.
Textures of Coal Creek Writing Workshop
Join poet Erin Robertson for a writing workshop that explores and examines textures along Coal Creek. No writing experience necessary. Open to all ages.
Textures of Coal Creek Art Reception
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.
Lafayette Library Seed Collection
A fun and easy service project to gather up seeds from the library’s native gardens
Mural Wall Prep - Community Event
A volunteer event to help prep the wall for the new mural. All ages welcome!
Full Moon Bat Hike
Experience the bats of Coal Creek on a full-moon outing led by Brett Riddle, professor emeritus of Life Sciences at UNLV.
Textures of Coal Creek Exhibit
The Friends of Coal Creek artists-in-residence are exhibiting work at the Louisville Library through the end of August.
Full “Buck” Moon Outing
Celebrate Disability Pride Month with us under July’s “buck” moon.
Louisville Garden Tour
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.
Lafayette Old Town Garden Tour
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.
Full “Strawberry” Moon Hike
Our full moon hike series continues under June’s “strawberry” moon.