Events

Current Events

Jane Austen Book Club: July – December, 2025

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday – December 16, 2025 – by reading all of her published novels with the South Routt Library Friends.

  • July 27: Sense and Sensibility
  • August 31: Pride and Prejudice
  • September 28: Mansfield Park
  • October 26: Emma
  • November 30: Northanger Abbey
  • December 14: Persuasion
    (note that is not the last Sunday, but the one closest to Jane’s birthday)

Join us the last Sunday of the month (except the Dec. 14 meeting) at 2 p.m. at the Oak Creek Community Center In addition to book talks, there will be tea service and Jane Austen-themed activities.

Costumes and Jane Austen-themed clothing welcome!

Download the event flyer (PDF)


Past Events

May 2025 Bicycle Tune Ups with Routt County Riders & Ski Haus

December 2024 Making Holiday Ornaments

November 2024 – A Medical Resources Panel Discussion

October 2024 – Get Ready for Ellipses with the Master Lindsay Rocks

August 2024 – A Walking Flower Garden Tour with Local Gardeners

July 2024 – History Driving Tour with Rita Herold and Virginia Rossi

June 2024 – Walking Meditation – A Yoga Practice

May 2024 – Bicycle Tune Ups with Routt County Riders & Ski Haus

April 2024 – Dancing with Literature and Children with Wendy Mikelsons

March 2024 – Family-Friendly Sandhill Crane program with Erin Gelling and The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition

February 2024 – Pottery, Old and New with Margaret Chipman

January 2023 Riley Jacobs, U.S. Youth Olympic Ski Team Free Skier from Yampa Valley

December 2022 Holiday Fiber Gathering with Cho and Friends

November 2022 Defending Dark Skies- Astronomy Access For Everyone with Lindsay Rocks

October 2022 South Routt Library Friends General Meeting

October 2022 Yampa River Water Program

September 2022 Upper Yampa Gardening Adventures- Todd Hagenbunch of Routt County CSU Extension

August 2022 Flower Gardens with Andrea Sponseller (and a Surprise)

August 2022 Opera in the Park

July 2022 Opera Steamboat event at the Oak Creek Library

June 2022 Driving Auto History Tour with Paul Bonnifield: Mining in the Upper Yampa Valley

May 2022 Bicycle Tune Ups with Jim Myers

April 2022 “Media Savvy” with Graham

February 2022 United Way Community with Kate Nowack

August 2021 Art Adventures with Suzy Pattillo

July 2021 Art for Kids with Susie Pattillo

June 2021 Nature Journaling with Ellen Bonifield.