Don’t miss the third annual festival that brings our community together to celebrate and experience all things nature at the historic Metzger Farmstead! Learn and celebrate with our partners at Broomfield Open Space & Trails and local groups and organizations doing important work to care for nature, including Butterfly Pavilion, Read more…
Love to photograph local nature? We invite you to enter your best photographs of Broomfield open spaces, trails and wildlife for the 2027 Broomfield Nature Lover’s Calendar contest! Everyone is welcome to submit up to six of their best photos to be considered for the 2027 calendar (13 large landscape-sized Read more…
Discover the return of Colorado’s native wildlife! This presentation will explore our state’s storied reintroduction efforts, from the past successes with lynx and moose to the current, voter-mandated reintroduction of wolves. We’ll also dive into the remarkable wildlife sightings right here in Broomfield County including everything from bears, birds, elk, Read more…
Order your 2026 Broomfield Nature Lover’s Calendar and support open space in Broomfield! Just in time for holiday shopping, the calendar features beautiful winning photographs of Broomfield’s open spaces, trails and wildlife by local residents, and is an annual fundraiser that supports our trails and open spaces. Click here to Read more…
Ridgeview Open Space is host to many native flowering plants and grasses, and we’d like to help share this beauty at Broomfield Commons Open Space. You are invited to join the City and County of Broomfield, Broomfield Open Space Foundation, and Butterfly Pavilion’s Urban Prairie Project Restoration Master Volunteers to Read more…
This is a free event, and everyone is welcome. Meet at the trailhead on Miramonte Blvd across from Lac Amora Park. For more information on this and other Nature walks click here.
NatureFest 2025 was an amazing free event held at Metzger Farmstead in August. The theme of the second NatureFest was a celebration of nature through storytelling, learning stations, arts and crafts while exploring open space. Over 250 people attended and over 20 partners joined us to celebrate nature. We would like Read more…
This series is sponsored by the Broomfield Open Space Foundation and the City and County of Broomfield Open Space and Trails Department. These programs are FREE to attend and NO registration is required. Join the Virtual Talk
A celebration of Nature through storytelling, learning stations, arts and crafts, and exploring the open space. Please bring your reusable water bottle; water refill stations will be available. Thank you to all of the community groups and nonprofits participating in the 2nd Annual NatureFest:
