Volunteers will work with biologists from Trout Unlimited and Wyoming Game and Fish to install BDAs on Mowberg Creek in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest.

If you own waders, we would suggest bringing them! If you need to borrow a pair, please reach out to us at least one week prior to the event (please include your shoe size in your request) so we can source them from one of our partners. You also have the option to “wet-wade”, AKA: just walk through the water and get wet. This option will almost certainly be cooler if you overheat easily. If you choose wet-wading, please wear closed-toe shoes with good traction so you can safely navigate the water.

We will be meeting at the USFS Work Center in Fox Park, Wyoming. We will depart from the meeting place to the work site as a group after discussing the plans and making sure everyone has what they need for the day. Please make your best effort to arrive in a timely manner so that our departure is not delayed unnecessarily.

Transport to the site will involve a combination of driving and walking (approximately 1 mile each way), so be prepared to take a scenic stroll through the meadows. The site is fairly exposed, so make sure to wear your preferred sun protection (hat, sunscreen, sun hoodie, sunglasses, or any combination of these).

We will be providing lunch and water refills, but we ask that you bring a daypack to carry your lunch and enough water bottles to carry your drinking water for the day.

Tools and instructions for BDA construction will be provided by COG, Trout Unlimited, and Wyoming Game and Fish. No prior experience is necessary, and this event is suitable for all ages.

This is an eligible event for Wyoming Naturalist volunteer hours.

Join us and the Southeast Wyoming Climbers Coalition to do some graffiti removal out on the lovely rocks at Vedauwoo! We will be meeting at Nautilus Rock Trailhead and we will travel from there to specific sites depending on the need.

Please join us; we’ll bring dinner and tools. Wear old clothes, bring your water bottle, and work gloves if you have them!

This is an eligible event for Wyoming Naturalist volunteer hours.

COG’s recreation technicians will lead volunteers through painting the exterior of both cabins at the USFS Keystone Work Site.

This is COG’s biggest single day of fundraising for the entire year: please include us in your giving plans for WyoGives!

COG’s technicians will be leading volunteers through painting the interior and exterior of the Spruce Mountain Fire Lookout.

Directions

Take Hwy 130 west of Laramie to Hwy 11 and Albany, WY. The tower is located seven miles west of Albany, Wyoming on Forest Road #500, a well-graveled road accessible by two-wheel-drive vehicles. Hiking and scenic driving opportunities abound nearby.

Join us to show some love to this campground: our individual placements will be working out in this area this summer, but this is a chance for volunteers to dig in and spruce up this beloved historic campground.

This is an eligible event for Wyoming Naturalist volunteer hours.

We’re getting together to repair/ install a buck and rail fence at the trailhead for the beautifully restored Tie Hack Trail! The Upper Tie Hack Trailhead is located about 5 miles south of Ryan Park on Forest Service Road 225 with a small parking area, so please carpool if you can.

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GqQHyxZD6yLsR9X97

COG will provide lunch, materials, tools, and plenty of water!

What to wear: closed toe shoes, layers and sun protection, and bring your water bottle.

This is an eligible event for Wyoming Naturalist volunteer hours.

We will be working with the USFS to do some trail work to celebrate this National Trails Day! We will be working on the Aspen Trail Loop up in the Happy Jack Recreation Area. The repairs on this trail are relatively minor, so this would be a great event regardless of your past trail work experience.

If you love using the trails in Pole Mountain and Happy Jack, we hope you will come out and join us in taking care of them and giving back to the land that we love all year long. All ages are welcome and families are encouraged!

What to wear: closed toe shoes, long pants, sun protection and layers

What to bring: water bottle, day pack to hold personal belongings

COG will provide: gloves, hard hats, tools, materials, extra water, lunch, and direction

This is an eligible event for Wyoming Naturalist volunteer hours.

COG is partnering with the Montessori school to help facilitate pinecone removal at Undine Park. This event is not open for registration, we just wanted to brag on all the little environmental stewards over at our local Montessori school!

Come help us stain the planter boxes we installed last year! We will also be doing some general courtyard spring cleaning and enjoying lunch together.

The Basics:

• Where: Laramie Plains Civic Center Courtyard

• When: 10 am to 2:30 pm

• What to wear: old clothes (might get messy with the stain), sunscreen/layers/hat/sun protection, comfortable closed-toe shoes

• What to bring: water bottle, sun protection, good cheer

• COG will provide: extra water, tools and materials for sanding/staining/repairs, gloves, lunch for everyone registered by 5 pm the night before

Help us celebrate Earth Day and the start of COG’s 2026 work season! We will be gathering at Altitude Chophouse and Brewery, starting at 6 pm, and your first drink’s on us.

Celebrate the planet we love by making a donation to COG so we can help take care of it for seasons to come!

Join us for our biannual Roger Canyon Cleanup! We will be partnering with SWORC to continue to steward this BLM parcel, and we could use your help.

Join us and SWORC for our spring cleanup out at Roger Canyon! Last year we were able to remove around 5,000 pounds of trash from this parcel, and with your help, we can keep that momentum going. Please RSVP at the link below so we can get a headcount for lunch. All you need to bring on the day of is a good attitude and enough layers to work outside in Wyoming’s ever-changing spring weather!

Come say hi to us in the Union Breezeway and chat about our draft schedule of events for the 2026 field season!

Join us at Bond’s Brewing for our fall happy hour and season debrief from 5-7 on December 2nd. As always, your first drink’s on us! This year, our fall happy hour falls on the same day as Giving Tuesday, and we hope you will include us in your end of year giving.

Join us for our final workday at Keystone Work Center so that we can get the cabin back on the reservation system in time for the winter season!

COG has spent the last few months making renovations and repairs at Keystone Cabin and we need your help with adding the finishing touches before we can put the cabin back on the reservation system for the winter season. We'll be cleaning up from construction and moving furniture back in place so that it's ready for guests. Lunch will be provided by COG.

If you’re planning to join us, please register using the link below.

Join us for COG’s NPLD project! We are once again heading out to Roger’s Canyon with our good friends at SWORC and the SE WY Climbers Coalition. UW’s SLCE office will be providing lunch, so please register ASAP at the link below.

If you’re planning on joining us, we suggest getting together with friends to carpool, as there is limited parking at the site (all the ground the cars cover, we aren’t able to clean).

Join us to finish reopening this cabin and restoring it to working order! On this day, we will finish deep cleaning the stove and oven, vacuuming out the wood-burning stove pipe to clear all of the soot that has built up over the years, replace the twin mattresses, and organize the kitchen supplies and dishes in the cabinets.

The Basics:

Where: Little Brooklyn Lake Guard Station

When: meet at the site at 9 am and work until around 2 pm

Food: COG will provide lunch, water to refill water bottles, and sparkling water. Please bring your own water bottle.

What to bring: Please bring work gloves, your water bottle, and plenty of sunscreen. (10,000 feet is much closer to the sun and it’s very easy to get burned!)

COG staff and board members will be gathering to re-wild this long-closed campground by removing all above-ground infrastructure from the site. If you’d like to join us, please let us know! You can email us at commonoutdoorground@gmail.com