Amazing Earthfest

If you love the outdoors and want to learn more about it, this free public festival is for you! With 29 scheduled events in arts and culture, outdoor adventure, science and land, community, night sky, and documentary film, Kanab’s Amazing Earthfest brings people together from across the region, state, and nation to explore ways that human society can thrive while also nourishing the habitability of Mother Earth through our day to day choices. The four-day festival of experiential learning takes place May 8-11, 2025, at various locations in and around Kanab, Utah. Visit https://www.amazingearthfest.org/ for complete details.

Like to hike or ride a bike? Earthfest has many healthy outdoor adventure activities to choose from. With a guide, discover the stark beauty of the Tilted Mesa trail system by mountain bike or on foot. Explore the precious riparian ecosystem found along Kanab Creek, an important tributary to the Colorado River originating in south central Utah. Prefer the cool calm mind-centering experience of an indoor guided yoga class? You’ve got it!

Events include hiking to a dinosaur track site, learning about the impact and the recovery from a recent large wildfire in the Pinyon-Juniper lands of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Ethnobotany with a Native American guide, landscape design using native plants, and the gradual re-emergence of Glen Canyon as persistent drought across the southwestern US causes water levels at Lake Powell to inexorably recede.

Historical perceptions of the vast unspoiled, ‘Wild West’ are changing with the pace of commercial and residential development, and widespread recurrence of ‘natural disasters’ such as the recent wildfires in southern California. Amazing Earthfest provides opportunities for people to ponder these phenomena.

According to statistics from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, “75% of GenZers say the environment affects their mental health”.

The events and documentaries of southern Utah’s 19^th Amazing Earthfest provide a deeper understanding of the factors influencing our planetary climate system and the incalculable value of preserving wild places to help buffer the adverse and inescapable impacts of climate change. Insights gained often point to actions people can take right at home to brighten one’s outlook for the future, and make our communities more resilient.

On Mother’s Day, May 11, at Nomad Cafe & RV Park just north of Kanab, co-owner Jason Sander will host “Project Nomad”, a conversation over brunch exploring development strategies that contribute to the creation of diverse and thriving communities of support. Later, Geologist Colter Davis will lead an excursion to a striking aspect of Utah’s colorful landscapes known as the Chinle Formation. The festival of learning closes with a screening of the documentary, Regenerating Life, examining how nature itself regulates and balances Earth’s climate.

Full descriptions for all events can be found here: https://www.amazingearthfest.org/events/upcoming.