Five Natrona County Fall 2026 Events Worth Clearing Your Calendar For

Something shifts in Wyoming around the middle of September. The cottonwoods along the Platte start going gold, the wind picks up an edge after sundown, and the whole valley seems to exhale after a long, bright summer. Fall here is short and it is glorious, and Natrona County manages to pack an absurd amount of good living into those few weeks before the snow shows up on Casper Mountain for real. If you have been telling yourself you will get out more, this is the window. Here is what is coming, in the order it lands on the calendar.

28th Annual Awards and Recognition Breakfast, September 16

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Wyoming host their 28th Annual Awards and Recognition Breakfast on Wednesday, September 16 at the Ford Wyoming Center. Breakfast goes out at 6:30 a.m. and the program starts at 7:00, which sounds brutally early right up until you remember how good it feels to have done something meaningful before most of the day has even started. This year the community honorees are Bob and Celia Kirkwood, a Casper couple who have spent the better part of five decades quietly showing up for this town, for their employees, and for their family. There is no cost to attend, though guests are encouraged to give what they can to support the Club. It is a short, genuinely moving hour, and a good way to point yourself into the season.

Birds and Blues at the Werner Wildlife Museum, Friday, September 18

Two nights later, take the folding chair out of the garage and head to Birds and Blues at the Werner Wildlife Museum at 405 East 15th Street. It runs Friday, September 18 from 6 to 8 p.m., it is free, and the whole thing happens outside in the museum's backyard under an open Wyoming sky. Audubon Rockies takes the first hour with bird trivia and kid friendly activities, and then Tom Coryell plays the blues from seven to eight while the light goes long and orange. Bring a jacket. Bring the kids. This is the kind of small, unhurried evening that people who move away from Casper end up missing most.

Fall Fest at David Street Station, September 19

Fall lands downtown on the last Saturday of the month. Fall Fest runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at David Street Station at 200 South David Street, and it's free to walk into. Expect train rides looping the block, a pumpkin patch the kids will pick over, games, food and drink vendors, local makers set up across the plaza, and live music the whole four hours. Go early if you want a pumpkin worth hauling home or a shorter line for the train. Go late if you're mostly there to eat something off a truck, listen to a set, and let the kids run until they're done.

MHA Indian Relay Races-Battle for the Rockies, September 19 and 20

The same weekend, out at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds, something considerably louder is happening. The MHA Indian Relay Races, Battle for the Rockies bring elite relay teams from across the United States and Canada to Casper, with racing starting at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. If you have never seen Indian relay, the short version is four horses, three bareback exchanges at a dead sprint, and one rider who has to make all of it work. It is the most exciting few minutes in horse racing and it is not particularly close. Between heats there is Native music and dancing, artisan vendors, and traditional food, so plan to stay a while rather than just catching a race and leaving.

Fossil Day at the Tate, Saturday, October 10

By the second Saturday in October the mornings are properly cold, which makes a museum the right call. Fossil Day runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Tate Geological Museum, 2332 Lisco Drive, on the south end of the Casper College campus. It is free. Kids can hunt for a shark tooth, make their own dinosaur art, and tour the T. rex Annex, and honestly the adults tend to get just as interested once they are inside. It is an easy two hours and a very good answer to a gray Saturday.

That is five weekends' worth of reasons to be out in Natrona County this fall, and not one of them asks much of you beyond showing up. Put a couple on the calendar now, before Fall gets away from you the way it always does.