Love Your Watershed Day 2025
Get ready to celebrate our watershed this Saturday, May 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at De Vargas Park!
Mark your calendars! Join us for Love Your Watershed Day on Saturday, May 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at De Vargas Park! This family-friendly event is co-hosted with the City of Santa Fe and is sure to be a day you won’t want to miss!
Enjoy live music by Lone Piñon and Repurposed Vibe, visit Queen Bee’s instrument petting zoo, and participate in tabling activities that highlight the importance of our watershed, including:
- A Tree Spree! scavenger hunt with the SFWA education team
- Amazing aquatic critters and water chemistry with River Source
- Enviroscape nonpoint source watershed model and What’s Your Watershed Address? with the City of Santa Fe River and Watershed Section
- The Watershed Resilience Lab at the University of New Mexico will bring stream sensors and show you how to measure stream solute properties of different waters
- A Museum of Trash with the Trash Pandas
- Animal tracking activities with Ann Hunkins of Next Step Animal Tracking
- Plant native flowers with El Rancho de La Golondrinas
- Backyard bass fishing with the New Mexico Wildlife Federation
- Games and classes about the river with Full Circle Santa Fe
- The Santa Fe Conservation Trust will have Bird Bingo and a kids nature scavenger hunt
- Sierra Club, Northern Group will teach you how to use Gaia GPS, AllTrails, and other hiking aps
- Healthy Body, Healthy Watershed with Undisputed Fitness. Learn the best ways to warm up, lift, and stay injury-free and healthy while cleaning up the watershed
- Rocks in the River with the Santa Fe River Commission. Learn where river rocks come from and what they tell us! Native and invasive plants guide.
- Walking Water with Santa Fe Rotary Club
- O’ga P’ogeh Land Tax coloring activity to learn Tewa names of local land and waterways
- Tabling activity with City of Santa Fe Water Conservation
And help clean the river with the amazing Trash Pandas and the Santa Fe Rotary Club! The river cleanup starts at 10:30 a.m. at the De Vargas Park skate park. Come any time you want and stay as long as you’d like. Trash bags and other cleanup supplies can also be picked up at the Trash Pandas table if you arrive after 10:30 a.m.
And more activities to come! Keep checking this page for the latest announcements!
Massive Community Cleanup
Starting Friday, May 2 and continuing until Sunday, May 11, we encourage you to participate in a watershed cleanup or join the Love Your Watershed Day river cleanup at De Vargas Park! Fun fact: Last year, 139 cleanup volunteers collected 5,215 pounds of litter!
This is a wonderful opportunity for you and fellow river stewards to work together to care for our watershed. We can provide trash bags and gloves to borrow. Please fill out this form to get involved.
Questions or comments? Please reach out to Lorraine Chow at lorraine@santafewatershed.org.
Volunteer help needed!
We’re looking for dedicated volunteers to help with set up, breakdown, and assist with traffic control during this amazing event. Your hard work is essential to making this day a success, and we couldn’t do it without you!
Click here to sign up and join us in giving back to our watershed!
