The City of Longmont offers many ongoing volunteer opportunities through its Parks, Open Space and Trails (POST) division. To get involved in any of the programs shown below, email post.volunteer@longmontcolorado.gov or call 303-651-8448.
Looking for one-time volunteer events or educational activities? Visit the Calendar.
The Adopt-A-Park Program is an effort to enlist community support through assistance with park and greenway upkeep. Community pride, a sense of ownership and better maintained parks & trails are the results of this program.
Volunteer activities may include some or all of the following depending on the site:
Volunteers are asked to commit to a minimum of one calendar year.
Do you have an affinity for our local birds? Do you have advanced skills in identifying birds by sight and call? The City of Longmont wants you in our Breeding Bird Survey Program!
Volunteers work in pairs, spending a minimum of two hours per survey per month at one or more properties, recording the birds they hear. One person in the pair observes and listens calling out what they see and hear and the other person writes down the information.
Requirements
Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one, two hour survey per month and commit to a minimum of one birding season.
Thumbnail Photo Credit: Tim Henson
Within this walk-in only preserve you will find Longmont and Ralph Price Reservoirs along the North Saint Vrain Creek. Longmont manages this natural watershed and reservoirs to preserve the resource and provide storage for the City's Water Utility. The park creates a unique experience for visitors, providing opportunities to view wildlife, the natural environment, and water management facilities at a close level.
Trails within Button Rock Preserve offer scenic views and plenty of exercise for an afternoon outing. These trails also enable anglers to access many backcountry fishing locations.
For additional preserve information, visit the Button Rock Preserve webpage.
From time to time, volunteers are needed to help with forest fire mitigation, trail repair, weed control, and restoration projects.
Clean-Up Green-Up events occur throughout the month of April and begin with a kickoff event typically held on the first or second Saturday of April. These events help keep our community beautiful and trash free.
Community groups, businesses, schools, neighborhoods, families, and individuals can participate. Volunteers choose a neighborhood, a park, a trail, an open space or a street to clean up (or we can assign an area).
After the kickoff and throughout the rest of the month, volunteers are welcome to contact the City to organize individual or group Clean Up Green Up events.
(Volunteers are also welcome to organize trash clean up events throughout the rest of the year through the Keep Longmont Beautiful volunteer program that covers the months of January through March and May through December. See the Keep Longmont Beautiful description below).
This includes attending the annual kickoff event. After this, you sign up for as few or as many other events throughout the month of April as your schedule allows.
Forestry maintains and cares for trees on public property, including parks, arterials, greenways, ditches, retention sites and around public buildings. Forestry volunteers help with pruning, mulching, and planting projects as needed.
Forestry-related one-time volunteer events and educational opportunities are scheduled throughout the calendar year. Please keep checking back on the calendar for something that might interest you!
Keep Longmont Beautiful (KLB) events are trash clean up events occurring throughout Longmont. A KLB event can happen anytime during the year, except the month of April. April events are part of the Clean Up Green Up Program (described above). Businesses, schools, individuals/families, or other organizations are invited to plan and carry out KLB volunteer trash clean up events. Please contact the City to organize your KLB event!
This includes only the events you plan and sign up for -- so as few or as many events as fit into your life.
Photograph Longmonts parks, open spaces, trails, wildlife, and our volunteers working hard to improve these spaces. Words arent necessary when photos can capture the stories of Longmont's wild places. Your images may be used in a variety of ways including on our website, to publicize volunteer events, and in our educational materials.
Requirements:
Volunteers are asked to commit to both scheduled photography assignments as well as photograph on their own time on Longmont's Open Spaces and Natural Areas.
Do you have wildlife or plant skills? What about people or organizational skills? Can you answer the whys about a specific work project? Come volunteer with Restoration Crew Restoration Crew Leader.
Requirements
• Must have expertise and/or professional experience in ecological restoration principles, native and non-native plant identification, and wildlife habitat needs.
• Must be willing to contact other volunteers.
• Must be willing to lead a work group of volunteers in the field on occasion.
• Must be willing to view and interpret natural resources data. • Must be willing to track your volunteer hours and remind other volunteers to do the same.
• Must be willing to use City of Longmont's JoinUs volunteer software to track work impact metrics.
Monthly projects during the field season. Mainly on second Tuesday mornings, but also some Saturdays.
Do you want to help improve Longmont's public lands, making them more habitable for native plants, plant communities, wildlife, and the people who like to recreate in these spaces? Then join our Restoration Crew!
Restoration volunteers do a variety of projects including digging, pulling, and clipping noxious weeds; building and removing fences; collecting and cleaning native seed; planting native seeds and plugs; planting trees; restoring social trails; watering establishing vegetation; and monitoring restored areas over time.
Meet new friends, explore new lands, and make a real difference. Volunteer for a day or all year long. We can use your help!
Volunteers meet on the second Tuesday of the month, unless weather, plant phenology, or the nature of the project work for a given month dictate that another day of the week needs to chosen.
City of Longmont's Memorial Rose Garden is located at the west end of Roosevelt Park. The Memorial Rose Garden Volunteer Program is an effort to enlist community support through assistance with garden upkeep. Volunteers learn about horticulture while enhancing plant and overall garden bed appearance and improving plant health. Community pride, a sense of ownership, and a better maintained Rose Garden are the results of this program.
Already a Rose Garden Volunteer? Are you interested in learning or contributing more? Consider becoming a Master Rose Garden Volunteer.
Requirements
Master Rose Garden Volunteers do all the same things that General Rose Garden Volunteers do, e.g., attend season kick off, pruning, dead-heading, weeding, composting, trash and debris pick up, and reporting.
Additionally, Master Rose Garden Volunteers do the following tasks:
To become a Master Rose Garden Volunteers, a volunteer needs to attend two additional sessions of rose garden training with staff.
The minimum time commitment is to volunteer during a portion of one growing season or ideally, volunteer for one entire growing season between May 1 and September 30. Volunteers are welcome to continue on for as many seasons as they would like.
City of Longmont's Memorial Rose Garden located at the west end of Roosevelt Park. The Memorial Rose Garden Volunteer Program is an effort to enlist community support through assistance with garden upkeep. Volunteers can enhance plant and overall garden bed appearance and improve plant health. Community pride, a sense of ownership, and a better maintained Rose Garden are the results of this program.
Any individual, group or organization can adopt a designated portion of the Memorial Rose Garden and can volunteer during a portion of or all of the season between April and September.
Examples of volunteer activities include some or all of the following:
The minimum time commitment volunteers is usually one growing season, but volunteers are welcome to continue on for as many seasons as they would like. In a season, volunteers typically make monthly visits between April and September, but the exact seasonal work period will depend on plant development and weather variations in a specific growing season.