Registration and program dates vary. Registration dates are listed below as they are available.
Explore events, programs, camps, and classes for youth in Albuquerque all summer long! The City offers low cost and free ways for our youth to learn and have fun. One ABQ Youth Connect brings together all City youth opportunities of various types offered by various departments.
Free or low cost summer programs at more than 20 community centers, 2 multi-generational centers, and select APS locations providing planned, organized and supervised activities. Therapeutic Recreation is for youth of all abilities. Each location offers different programing and registration.
Each location offers different programing and registration.
The Food Service Program for Children provides free meals in City community centers, parks, schools, apartment complexes, public housing, churches and at non-profit organizations during the summer. Find a location near you! Meals will be served at each site for one hour on first come, first serve basis. Please look at the PDF listing for serving time.
Get out and about to create experiences for the whole family. Hours vary by location.
The City of Albuquerque continues to be one of the largest employers of young people in New Mexico. Visit cabq.gov/jobs for current listings.
Join Esperanza for a two-day introduction to Mountain Biking for ages 11-14.
Come watch Coco at Movies in the Park!
Welcome to your free local video game tournament hosted by Parks and Recreation!
Celebrate dad in the coolest way at our Father's Day Skate Jam!
Free art class
Join Esperanza for a Youth Earn-A-Bike at the South Valley Library.
Free event for teens age 12-18
Come watch Paddington 3 at Movies in the Park!
Join an Open Space educator for a family-friendly hike and engage in hands-on learning together as a family, listen to natural history fun facts, enjoy storytelling, and seek out wildlife.
Imagine how bleak our diets would be without apples, melons, berries, carrots, broccoli, almonds, coffee, chocolate, and, dare I say it, chili. These foods and many other foods that nourish and comfort us depend on pollinating animals to reproduce, such as bees and wasps, flies, butterflies and moths, and beetles.
Celebrate the spirit of skating at our Go Skate Day Skate Jam!
Join Esperanza for a two-day introduction to Mountain Biking for ages 11-14.
Come watch Sonic 3 at Movies in the Park!
What would the world be without mud? Whether you join us on the muddy obstacle course or meet us in the mud kitchen to bake mud pies.
Celebrate Independence Day with style at our Stars and Stripes Skate Jam!
Join Esperanza for a two-day introduction to Mountain Biking for ages 11-14.
Come watch Mufasa at Movies in the Park!
Join Esperanza for a two-day introduction to Mountain Biking for ages 11-14.
Come watch The Wild Robot at Movies in the Park
Come watch The Wizard of Oz and Wicked at Movies in the Park!
Free back-to-school supplies, car show, and more!
