SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 3rd ANNUAL CRANE MIGRATION CELEBRATION!

Friday, March 14, 2025

conserving rocky mountain greater sandhill cranes + their habitat through science + education

The Greater Sandhill Crane is an iconic species of the Yampa Valley in Northwest Colorado. Returning in the spring from wintering grounds in New Mexico and Arizona, cranes nest and raise their young in wetland areas throughout the valley.

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Save the Date for CCCC’s annual benefit:

Get your tickets for the 3rd annual Crane Migration Celebration!

  • Friday, March 14, 2025 – 5:30 – 8 PM at the Depot Art Center in Steamboat Springs, CO

This lively event will highlight CCCC’s accomplishments in 2024 and the vision for our work in 2025. Enjoy signature dishes from areas along the cranes’ migration route, a silent auction & paddle raise, and more! 

Thank you to our event sponsors:

Gold Sponsor

Company logo - the letters AES in shades of blue, green, and purple. 

Bronze Sponsors

  Logo for Steamboat Radio    GroupGives Yampa Valley Logo

Questions? info@coloradocranes.org

We hope to see  you there! 

 

 

Welcome Back, Cranes!

March 1- 8 is Greater Sandhill Crane Week in Routt & Moffat Counties, and CCCC is celebrating with a variety of activities:

There is something for everyone.  Click on the links above to learn more about how you can engage with these activities to celebrate the cranes’ spring migration back to the Yampa Valley. Eyes on the sky!

 

 

 

Upcoming Grouse & Crane Tours:

Join Yampatika and CCCC for a unique program at the Howe Ranch: tours leave from the Yampatika office in Steamboat Springs and travel to the breathtaking Elkhead area of the Yampa Valley to view Sharp-tailed Grouse lekking action and Greater Sandhill Cranes dance. 

  • Tours on May 3rd & 10th, 2025
  • 3:40 am – 11 am
  • Ages 16+
  • $125/person – includes transportation & breakfast

Space is limited to 8 people per tour.

Visit Yampatika’s website to register & learn more about these tours!

 

YAMPA VALLEY CRANE FESTIVAL

Thank you for attending the 13th annual festival. We hope you enjoyed your time in the Yampa Valley! Save the date for the 14th annual festival:

August 28 – 31, 2025

View the 4th season of the Crane Nest Camera:

Our appreciation for the crane grows with the slow unraveling of earthly history. His tribe, we now know, stems out of the remote Eocene. The other members of the fauna in which he originated are long since entombed within the hills. When we hear his call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.

– Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac