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2025 Blue River Festival


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Video Credits: Drummond West!  @drummond.west

2024 Blue river festival stats

Over 200 Volunteers
40 sponsors
10 vendors

4000 LBS OF TRASH AND INVASIVE COLLECTED
 Blue River Watershed Group extends our deepest gratitude for your incredible support of the 2024 Blue River Festival and Countywide Cleanup. Whether you volunteered your time, donated resources, or helped spread the word, your contributions made this event a huge success!

Thanks to the dedication and hard work of volunteers like you, we were able to remove around 4000 lbs of trash! Your commitment to protecting and preserving the Blue River is truly inspiring, and it would not have been possible without you.

The amount of trash and weeds we cleaned up this year nearly tripled from last year. To say we are amazed would be an understatement! You all made this year's Blue River Festival such a success and delight; we could not be more proud and grateful!

A special thank you to our sponsors, partners, and fellow organizations who provided resources, shared expertise, and brought the community together to celebrate our local environment.
We look forward to building on this success and working together again to protect our rivers and enhance the natural beauty of our region.
Please take a moment to provide us with your feedback about this year's festival and clean-up so that we can make next year even better! You can share your thoughts on this year's festival and any suggestions for next year in this form: 2024 Blue River Festival Feedback Form 

Don't forget to check out the amazing photos from the event and add any of yours in this shared Google folder: 2024 River Clean-Up Photos 

September 5th & 6th, 2025

Spend the weekend showing your appreciation for the water in our lakes and rivers by participating in the Blue River clean-up and fun events of the annual BRWG River Clean-Up Festival. 

general EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday September 5th, 5:30 PM, Launch Party: Patagonia Store, Breckenridge
Saturday September 6th, 10 AM, County Wide: River Cleanup
Saturday September 6th, 11:30 AM, Frisco Marina: Volunteer Party
2025 Volunteer Registration

volunteer details

Be a volunteer

+ Register to remove trash along a section of the Blue River or one of its tributaries to improve ecosystem health
+ Supplies provided
+ All ages welcome
+ Volunteer as a Team Lead to support other volunteers, sign up with a group, or register as an individual.
+ Each team will work a section of the river to remove garbage along the river bank
+ Post Cleanup Party
​+ Questions? Reach out to Reyna Schedler at (509-379-9511) or at [email protected]

be a team lead

+ Team leaders are those who are willing to take the extra step, pick up supplies prior to the cleanup, and support the team.
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Less water means a concentration of contaminants. Now more than ever, river habitat needs our help to ensure pollutants stay out of the water. Your participation as a volunteer or contribution as a sponsor shows your advocacy for healthy waterways and riparian habitat. Remove garbage from the waterway to restore a healthy riparian ecosystem, enjoy time outdoors, make friends, and win amazing prizes! Prizes include local gift cards, swag, and outdoor gear!

2025 event details

Blue River Festival Launch Party -
September 5, 2025          5:30 pm-8pm
Happy hour, speakers, silent auction
Patagonia Store, Breckenridge

Open to everyone
Celebrate the kickoff of the 2025  Blue River Festival.

5:30 pm-6pm - Happy Hour
6pm-7pm - Speakers:
  • Taylor Hawes, The Nature Conservancy, Colorado Water Conservation Board
  • Jon Ewert, Aquatic Biologist, Colorado Parks and Wildlife
7:30pm - Silent Auction winners announced

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Volunteer for the river cleanup -
September 6, 2025          10am-11:30AM
remove trash from our river
county Wide Event

Each team will work a section of the river to remove garbage along the river bank.

Clean up your river!
Compete for Prizes: Most collected, Biggest single item, Most unique item...
Bond with your community :)

Free lunch and beer for all volunteers. Meet us at the Frisco Marina at 11:30am when you are done with the cleanup. 


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river clean-up volunteer party -
September 6th, 2025          11:30 AM -2:30 Pm
Free Volunteer Lunch, Beer, Music
Frisco Marina Park

River cleanup volunteers celebrate a job well done at our post clean up Volunteer Party.
  • Free Lunch and Beer (for volunteers) 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
  • Vendor village with top brands & organizations
  • Live Music
  • Fly Casting Lessons, Yoga Class
  • Beach Party with SUPs
  • Raffle Prizes from top brands like Yeti, Patagonia, NRS, and others!

Non-volunteers are welcome to join for music, the vendor village, raffle, & activities.
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2024 featured BAND: Moonstone Quill

Born on Moonstone Road in Breckenridge, CO in the fall of 2020, the band began during the height of the Covid pandemic. Through the uplifting power of music, Moonstone Quill grew from a ski town favorite to a professional full time ensemble, sharing their music with the rest of Colorado and the world.



2024 Blue River Festival Event Sponsors
Your support makes a difference in our community!

$3,000 and up: Cutthroat Sponsor

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$1,000 -2,999: Kokanee Sponsor

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$500 - $999: Rainbow Sponsor

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In-kind to $499: Brook Sponsor

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Denver
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Breckenridge
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Become a sponsor

Join the basin-wide effort for lake and river restoration, education, and appreciation by becoming a sponsor!
Sponsorship Form

Cutthroat Sponsor - Watershed Festival

$3,000.00
  • Radio advertisement recognition 
  • Event poster recognition
  • Prominent banner placement (Sponsor provides banner) 
  • Social media recognition
  • Website recognition


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Kokanee Sponsor - Watershed Festival

$1,000.00
  • Event poster recognition
  • Prominent banner placement (Sponsor provides banner) 
  • Social media recognition
  • Website recognition
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Rainbow Sponsor - Watershed Festival

$500.00
  • Banner placement (Sponsor provides banner) 
  • Social media recognition
  • Website recognition
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Thank you for the past few years of successful River Cleanups!  Each year around 200 volunteers come out to remove over 2,000 pounds of trash from the river.

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Header photo courtesy of Bill Linfield

Mailing Address:
​P.O. Box 867
Silverthorne, CO  80498
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​Email: 
[email protected]
Phone: 
719-209-9577
​BRWG is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization EIN 20-1771307. Our nonprofit designation letter can be downloaded here. 
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Mission
    • Meet our Team
    • Annual Report
    • Employment Opportunities
  • What We Do
    • Current Projects
    • Integrated Water Management Plan
    • Blue River Habitat Restoration Project
    • Wildfire Ready Watersheds
    • Summit County Outdoor Coalition
    • Citizen Science
    • Swan River Restoration
    • Swan River: Native Cutthroat Preservation
    • Completed Projects
  • Support
    • How to Support Us
    • Blue River Legacy Giving
    • Giving Season Toolkit
  • Events
    • Calendar of Events
    • Water In The West
    • Blue River Festival
  • Blue River Beta
    • Links for flow and forecasts
    • Watershed Facts
    • Database of research
    • More Information