Lakewood Earth Day Celebration

Join us for our third annual Parade of Species! Kids, adults and pets are invited to bring or wear your favorite plant or animal costume or make an animal mask at the event, decorate your wagons and strollers, bring an instrument and march through our event in celebration of all of the animal and plant species with whom we share the earth. 

• Costume Contest- prizes awarded in the categories of Favorite Animal Costume, Favorite Plant Costume and Favorite Group Costume.
• 4 p.m. - Gather at the gazebo for animal yoga and the costume contest and photo ops with Smokey Bear, Woodsy Owl and mascots from local high schools, middle schools and colleges. 
• 4:30 p.m.- Parade starts

Enjoy music provided by

• 11 a.m.- Moon Shroom
• 1 p.m.- Blue River Grass
• 3 p.m. Flash Mountain Flood
• 5 p.m.- Super Magick

A variety of food and drinks will be available at this year's celebration. Plan to grab lunch, dinner and snacks with us at the event! 

Beer Garden provided by New Terrain Brewery.

Food and drinks will be available from:

•  Fanwich
• Cheese Love Grill
• Lucky Mary's Baking Company
• Buckaroo Enterprises
•  El Bajon Churros
• Café Ole 

• Take a new electric vehicle out for a spin.
• Check out a wide variety of electric vehicles and hear from their owners about what it’s like to own and drive an electric vehicle.
• Take an e-bike out for a ride. 

All of our vendor and food truck spots are full for this year's Earth Day Celebration. Watch for applications to open up in December for next year's event.

Thank you to all of the artists who submitted designs for our 2024 Earth Day Celebration Poster Art Contest. As always, we were blown away by everyone's creativity and talent! Our winning artist for 2024 is Lakewood resident, Steph LeBlanc.

• Here is Steph’s winning design:

• Participate in creating art at the event—visit the art booth to create an animal mask.

In past years we’ve had an electronics recycling event as a partner to our Earth Day event, however due to declining participation, we will no longer host electronics recycling at this event. Find electronics recycling at these local organizations:

• Rooney Road Recycling
• SustainAbility Recycling

Metal and Electronics Recycling Day
May 11
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, 11500 W. 20th Ave.

Everyone is welcome to bring metal and electronics to recycle. Sponsored by Sustainable Applewood, Sustainable Eiber, and Sustainable Morse Park.

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