Canyonlands Field Institute

09/03/2026

Thank you to all of our awesome volunteers, Utah Forestry, Fire & State Lands, and Bureau of Land Management - Moab and Canyon Country for making our cleanup trip this weekend a success! We loved spending time with together outdoors while helping keep the Colorado River clean. Nice work, friends!

Check out our post tomorrow for an I spy-style game looking through some of the trash we collected.

Utah Department of Natural Resources BLM Utah

08/27/2026

Tomorrow is the last day to register for our river clean up this Sunday (8/30)! We can't wait to spend time together, help keep the river corridor clean, and enjoy an awesome lunch!

This could be YOU!

Join us for our annual river clean up on the Colorado River on Sunday, August 30! Canyonlands Field Institute will be partnering with Utah Fire, Forestry, and State Lands to clean up a section of the Colorado River. You'll get a free river trip, lunch, the satisfaction that comes from helping protect an area you love, and lots of fun along the way. Registration is required and attendees must be 14 or older.

Here are the details! We will:
🚐 meet at Lions Park at 8:30am on Sunday morning (8/30) to shuttle to our river put in location.
🚣spend the day on the water, helping pick up trash and clean up the river corridor.
🍜enjoy a catered lunch, prepared by our awesome commissary manager Paula and our team.
👋 return to Lions Park by approximately 4pm.

Link to register: https://tri.ps/ozkIF

08/26/2026

Wilderness first responders - recertify with us and in Moab this February!

Canyonlands Field Institute is partnering with the NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute on their recertification course for wilderness first responders and wilderness advanced first aid license holders. This course may also be used to recertify the wilderness portion of a Wilderness EMT. We looking forward to seeing you at the Moab Valley Inn Feb. 17-19.

Keep your license current, and have some fun with us!

Link to register: https://cfimoab.wetravel.com/trips/2027-nols-wilderness-first-responder-recertification-canyonlands-field-institute-0165476660 -this-trip

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08/22/2026

NOW HIRING: Join Canyonlands Field Institute as our new Development Director!

We are looking for a collaborative, energetic leader to serve as our Development Director. Based out of Moab, Utah, this position oversees all aspects of development for CFI, including grant writing, strategic planning, donor relationship management, and fundraising. To offset the costs of program participation for schools and families, CFI has ambitious fundraising goals to support free and low-cost programming, and our Development Director will help us get there!

Learn more: www.cfimoab.org/employment/development-director

08/20/2026

Welcome back to school, friends!

Today, we were able to welcome our local middle school friends back to MLH Middle School as a part of the Grand County School District clap in event.

Whether you live in Moab or across the country, we hope you have an awesome start to the year. We can’t wait to see you out on the river or in the canyons!

Bonus: we got to see the awesome folks from the Youth Garden Project!

08/19/2026

This could be YOU!

Join us for our annual river clean up on the Colorado River on Sunday, August 30! Canyonlands Field Institute will be partnering with Utah Fire, Forestry, and State Lands to clean up a section of the Colorado River. You'll get a free river trip, lunch, the satisfaction that comes from helping protect an area you love, and lots of fun along the way. Registration is required and attendees must be 14 or older.

Here are the details! We will:
🚐 meet at Lions Park at 8:30am on Sunday morning (8/30) to shuttle to our river put in location.
🚣spend the day on the water, helping pick up trash and clean up the river corridor.
🍜enjoy a catered lunch, prepared by our awesome commissary manager Paula and our team.
👋 return to Lions Park by approximately 4pm.

Link to register: https://tri.ps/ozkIF

08/19/2026

We can't wait for the Moab Music Festival, and we look forward to see you during the music hikes - our team is ready to share information about the area and experience the Moab Music Festival with you.

Check out the link to the full calendar and purchase tickets in the comments.

08/14/2026

We are offering a 20% discount on our Women and Water Trip to those who register before August 21st.

Give yourself or a friend the gift of unplugging from technology, recharging in the wilderness, incredible meals, and extraordinary company as you paddle a canoe through the remote twists and turns of Labyrinth Canyon. Learn from our wonderful naturalist educators, content experts (public lands attorney Laura Peterson and artist/writer Gretchen Henderson), and other fabulous participants on this gals-only river adventure.

Use the code LASTCALL20 during checkout to get the discounted rate. This code is only good until Thursday, August 20th at 11:59pm.

08/12/2026

Why you should register for our Women and Water Trip taking place Sun., Sept. 20th – Fri., Sept 25th:

💦Labyrinth Canyon is a special place – and experiencing it by canoe is incredible. You will take in the magic of the Green River floating through Labyrinth Canyon with other amazing women.

🍂The fall is a great time to find campsites while still having adequate river flow to make the trip an easy paddle. It is fun for beginners and experienced boaters.

🚣🏻‍♀️Girl power! This trip will be staffed and attended by women. The crew, content experts and participants can share the comradery that comes with participating in outdoor activities with other awesome ladies!

🤘Our content experts rock! Laura Peterson, wilderness attorney and public lands advocate, and Gretchen Henderson, environmental artist and writer, will be joining the trip to help us experience and learn about the pristine natural values of Labyrinth Canyon.

Sign up soon to reserve your place! The link to register and find out more in the comments!

08/11/2026

We said see you later to our last group of explorers on Friday. We aren't sure whether we crying tears of joy that it happened or tears of sadness that camp is over. 😭😂😭😂

We had a wonderful time at Explorer Base Camp this summer! Explorer Base Camp participants fished on Warner Lake, used a compass and map to find treasure, cooked their meals together, and enjoyed the much-cooler temperatures in the La Sal Mountains.

Thanks for ending your summer break with us, and we hope you have the best school year ever!

Shout out to the U.S. Forest Service-Manti-La Sal National Forest for the lovely setting and great facilities!