CARbon-Free Challenge
Go CARbon-Free with us in June!
Each summer, Western Resilience Center hosts a family-friendly CARbon-Free Challenge where participants can sign up individually or as a team to log their car-free miles and be entered in a fun competition and chance to earn great prizes.
Participating in the challenge enables you to:
- Put your health first by getting exercise on your daily commute while helping to promote clean air.
- Build connections with your family, coworkers and neighbors through friendly competition and celebration at the end of challenge party.
- Have the chance to see wildlife and plants.
- Zoom past traffic while advocating for a community where CARbon-Free transportation is the first choice and has all the needed infrastructure to be safe and attainable.
- Save money on gas and collectively avoid emitting thousands of tons of carbon!
How It Works
Register for the challenge and commit to using alternative transportation (walk, bike, longboard, etc.) at least once per week from June 1-30. If you are competing as a team, each team member needs to register.
Register in one of three categories:
- Solo Participant.
- Family Team (doesn’t have to be the same family but must have at least one child and one adult on the team, up to six members).
- Adult Team (teams can include up to four members, you may have many different teams from the same company or a group of like-minded friends).
Join the celebration and announcement of winners and prizes at the End of Challenge Party.
Log your miles
Google Sheet (coming soon for 2027!) — All instructions for use of the Google Sheet can be found on the first tab.
Compete against other teams and participants to see who can log the most alternative transportation miles/trips for the chance to win awesome prizes.
Participants can expect weekly emails during the challenge with leaderboard updates and upcoming mini events/challenges. At the end of the challenge we will celebrate our winners with a great party and a chance to receive prizes!
If you have questions or would like to sponsor the challenge, please contact tad.lane@westernresilience.org.
Ways to earn bonus miles
*Send in a photo of yourself participating in the below activities to tad.lane@westernresilience.org to have your bonus miles counted!*
- Attend the Bike to Work Breakfast at the Courthouse Lawn hosted by Routt County Riders and The Cycle Effect — Stop by Western Resilience Center’s table and enjoy free breakfast.
- Drop off your compost —Take alternative transportation when you drop off your compost at a See Me Compost location.
- Buy local food — Visit the Farmers Market or Yampa Valley Foods and earn bonus miles when you buy local.
- Visit Yampa River Botanic Park — Take a trip over to the Botanic Park to get ideas on how your own garden can support pollinators and cut down on water usage.
- Bring spirit to costume week — Get your costume ready! We will have a special prize for best costume.
- Get the kangaroo prize — Earn up to 10 bonus miles for transporting children using alternative transportation. Bonus miles earned can’t exceed more than 10 miles for this category, but there will be a special prize whoever does so the highest number of times, so send a picture to tad.lane@westernresilience.org each time you do so.
- Take a rest day on public transportation — Sometimes your body needs a rest. Send in a photo of yourself taking public transportation for 10 bonus miles.
- Celebrate pride — Take alternative transportation to Yampa Valley Pride.
Thank you to our 2026 sponsors & partners
This event is made possible through generous community support.
