Events

Celebration of Trails Poetry on Preserves & Art In Nature Walk With artists Elizabeth Winters & Amanda Post And poet Ingrid Keriotis Saturday, June 1 10am-11am Meet at the Cascade Canal Trail parking lot located off Gracie Road Join Art In Nature commissioned artists Elizabeth Winters & Amanda Post along Cascade Canal Trail for a guided walk through their site-specific

BYLT along with Nevada County Association for the Developmentally Disabled present: A Wild Independence Screening & Group Walk BYLT and NCADD will host the community for a viewing of the 2021 documentary, A Wild Independence: The Story of Nevada City's Independence Trail, and how naturalist John Olmsted inspired a community and turned an abandoned mining

Join us on a wildflower walk guided by Steve Matson on June 2, 2024. We will visit a mixed coniferous forest along with its adjoining meadows, riparian zone, and sphagnum bog. Meet at 10 AM in Kings Beach. A plant list will be available. The odds are good that we will see Fritillaria atropurpurea, among much

Kickoff Tahoe Bike Month by cleaning up our community bike paths! Oftentimes these paths can be littered and the cleanup gets these paths ready for a great summer biking season. Volunteers can meet at one of three locations throughout South Tahoe to pick up litter from the areas around our bike paths. Following the cleanup,

Do you love to kayak, paddleboard, and walk on the shoreline at Lake Tahoe? Then join us for a free Eyes on the Lake training! This training is open to the public, all ages welcome. Learn how to identify Tahoe’s various native and invasive aquatic plants, and how to report observations that allow the League

Please join the El Dorado Community Foundation and enjoy an evening learning about the great work of many of their nonprofit organizations! 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Nonprofit Organization “Flight” Nonprofits will have 60-90 seconds to share their mission 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Conversations & Connections with nonprofits in attendance Light appetizers will be

Celebration of Trails 2024: Cheers to Local Trails Kick-Off Happy Hour Thursday, June 6th, 5-7pm, Three Forks Bakery & Brewing Co. in Nevada City Join BYLT Staff and Board for a toast to local trails at our Cheers to Local Trails kick-off happy hour! We’ll be out at Three Forks Bakery & Brewing Co., celebrating

Film Showing of Award Winning Wildland Fire Documentary - Elemental Come join us for a special in person event at the Lake Tahoe Community College Duke Theatre for a screening of the acclaimed wildfire documentary Elemental. Witness the beauty and power of nature in this captivating film that explores the impact of wildland fires on our environment and communities. Learn

This year’s Wild for the Yuba will take place on Saturday, June 8th, at the Schrammsberg Estate (242 Gold Flat Rd) in Nevada City. The event begins at 6:00pm and will feature a delicious dinner with appetizers by Family Affair Catering, exciting live and silent auctions, and dancing and lively music by Broken Compass to end the evening. Click

Join us on Sunday, June 9th for a special BioBlitz event with conservation easement landowners in Swall Meadows. A BioBlitz is a communal citizen-science effort to record as many species within a designated location and time period as possible. We will record what we find in iNaturalist and be joined by local experts on our area’s natural

The Sugar Pine Foundation (SPF) is a local non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the natural regeneration of pines in the Tahoe Region and beyond. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA) is the primary steward of the Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT) System. Together, our organizations partner to provide educational experiences across the Tahoe Rim Trail and throughout

Planning to hike the Tahoe Rim Trail this trail season? Incline Village Library and the TRTA are hosting a free event in Incline Village! Come out for an Interactive Guide Panel discussion with our professional trail guides on completing the Tahoe Rim Trail! Bring your family and friends and come on out and learn more

Are You Ready to Find Yourself in Summer? $135- TRTA Members, $150- TRTA Non-Members Course Description: Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for a day in the classroom and field to learn basic map and compass skills in the beautiful Tahoe summer. This course will teach you one of the most basic and essential outdoor skills-

Planning to hike the Tahoe Rim Trail this trail season? South Valleys and the TRTA are hosting a free event in Reno! Come out for an Interactive Guide Panel discussion with our professional trail guides on completing the Tahoe Rim Trail! This will be apart of the Time-out Tuesday Adult Program, so come on out

Join us for a morning of land-healing, intensely gratifying, ecosystem restoration work. Volunteers of all ages and skill levels are invited to this fun, hands-on, in-the-field event. By pitching in, you will help improve the ecosystem function and the wildlife habitats that surround Lake Tahoe. Healthy forests and meadows act as natural pollution filters to

Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA) guides and nonprofit partner Tahoe Institute for Natural Science (TINS) naturalist, Sarah Hockensmith, on a stroll at Page Meadows in search of mountain wildflowers and birds on Tahoe’s West Shore. The TRTA is the primary steward of the Tahoe Rim Trail system, and TINS is a valuable ecological stewardship organization

Women’s Trails  College: Introduction to Trail Building Do you love trails and want to learn more? Do you identify as  F(Femme), T(transgender), W(women), or N-B(Non-Binary) and want a safe, inclusive space on the trails? This training is for you! Click here for more information and to register.

Celebration of Trails 2024 Street Party Come out and celebrate with your fellow hikers when we take over Commercial Street for our blowout street party! This FREE event features local band Suika T performing live in front of Crazy Horse, booths staffed by local recreation partners, family activities, and more! Winners of the Summer Star

After Tahoe’s celebrated July 4th festivities, our beaches and surrounding areas can become covered with trash, endangering wildlife and the Lake’s clarity. Each year on July 5th, Tahoe residents and visitors turn out for the largest cleanup of the year to remove litter from Lake Tahoe’s shores. You can help Keep Tahoe Blue by volunteering