Community Events
Earth Day at Dragonfly Farm
10 Year Anniversary Celebration – Join us all for live music, educational vendors, food tucks, prizes, and more. Event will be held on Saturday, April 26th, 2025!
A local event at a family-run plant nursery in the Langlois community. The Stream Trailer makes special appearances to celebrate our one Earth, its variety of life, while also sharing ways to protect it.
Rogue River Clean Up
Annual Rogue River Cleanup – June 7th, 2025
Join us the first Saturday of June each year for a FREE rain or shine event. We sign up our community partners and volunteers for a day of stewardship! Help us clean up several gravel bars, beaches, and roadsides along the Rogue River. We will also tackle invasive weeds in the Gold Beach area!
Register TODAY below or reach out to Kelly Timchak if you have specific questions: kelly@currywatersheds.org or 541-373-0057
9:00 am – 10:00 am Check In: Register at the Gold Beach Visitor Center (94080 Shirley Ln, Gold Beach, OR 97444) to sign up for beach cleanups, river bar/roadside cleanups, or invasive weed removal if you have not done so online already. Sign volunteer waivers, collect gear, and get ready to clean up. There are restrooms available at this location.
10 am – 12 pm Litter Clean ups & Invasive Weed Pulling: Clean up by boat (sign up with personal watercraft) OR self-guided river bar or beach clean ups on foot or by your own vehicle. Remove invasive weeds with CWP crew on Mill Bar.
12 pm – 2:00 pm BBQ Celebration Lunch: with community partners! Join us at the USFS Quosatana Campground Day Use Area for the Celebration BBQ!! (From Gold Beach, Oregon, travel 14 miles east via Jerry’s Flat Rd./Forest Road 33, turn left into campground.). There are restrooms available at this location.
Party in the Park
Party in the Park is scheduled for July 12th, 2025! Stay tuned for more details.
Curry Watersheds Partnership staff engages youth from the Gold Beach community to lead a fun, educational booth each year designed to delight and inform young learners about their world. Previous themes included: Power of the Pollinators game, Little Bo Peep’s sheep and water quality model, and Underwater Engineering with PVC and ROV’s.
Always hands-on, always educational, ALWAYS FUN!
Cherish the Chetco
This event will be held in August or September, exact date TBD.
Experience the Elk
Redfish Rocks on the Docks
This is a community event in Port Orford, celebrating the Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve and community’s dedication to clean water, local economy and stewardship. This event is planned by a partner, and has NOT been scheduled for 2025 yet. Stay tuned…
The CWP’s Stream Trailer is an excellent tool we deploy to teach about non-point source pollution run-off, best management practices, and how it affects aquatic life in rivers and in the near-shore marine habitats.
The Monarch Festival
This event is planned by partners, and no date set for 2025 yet. Stay tuned!
The YEP works with volunteers to lead a life-size butterfly life cycle station at the annual Monarch Festival, held in Brookings, OR. Visitors of all ages are invited to make the beautiful metamorphosis into an adult butterfly, and then parade around the festival wearing butterfly wings.
Stream Trailer
The Stream Trailer is an inter-active watershed model that teaches audiences aging from 2-102 about watersheds, non-point source pollution, riparian zones, hydrologic cycle, salmon life cycle, estuaries and SO MUCH MORE!!!
We also now have a “table top” model of a watershed as well to better serve smaller groups and classrooms. Reach out to find out more!