Colorado Foraging Calendar

Western Colorado's canyon country and mesa country with piñon pine nuts in the extensive piñon-juniper woodland, Gambel oak acorns, prickly pear, and wolfberry in the warmer canyon habitats.

Northwestern Colorado's high desert sagebrush country with serviceberries, chokecherries, and rose hips concentrated along the river valleys and rocky canyon rims above the Green River drainage.

Southeastern Colorado's mesa and canyon country along the Comanche grasslands, with prickly pear, cholla buds, and juniper berries on the tablelands and wild plum and elderberry in the canyon bottoms.

Northwestern Colorado's mountains and the upper Wyoming Basin fringe, with post-fire morels, huckleberries, serviceberries, and rose hips across the high country and basin valleys.

The Rocky Mountain core of Colorado with Gambel oak acorns on the lower slopes, huckleberries and wild strawberries in the montane zone, and exceptional bolete and chanterelle habitat in the spruce-fir forest above 9,000 feet.

Eastern Colorado's shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie with prairie turnip, wild onion, and yucca fruit in undisturbed grassland remnants along the Front Range transition and south into the Comanche grasslands.

Colorado's Uinta Mountain corner with high-elevation boreal forest foraging in spruce-fir stands, with boletes, chanterelles, and chokecherries along the mountain streams and meadow edges.