Summit CWMA

Community program · May to August

The Garlic Mustard Games

Do you have what it takes to be an ecological champion?

A county-wide garlic mustard pull competition. Form a team or go it alone, pull at community events, trailside stations or your own yard, weigh it, and climb the leaderboard. The top teams win a food truck party at the end of the summer.

Enter your team's poundsSee the leaderboard
Garlic Mustard Games torch logo: a green flame with a garlic mustard sprig

2026 season · live

The leaderboard.

Pulled from the same Survey123 form the teams use. Updated within five minutes of an entry; last entry 2026-08-05.

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14,637
pounds of garlic mustard pulled
1,551
volunteer hours logged
28
teams on the board
70
weigh-ins entered

Pounds by team

Top 15 of 28
  1. 1Park City5,108 lbs
  2. 2Summit CWMA Crew3,180 lbs
  3. 3Petrosky Family1,163 lbs
  4. 4Ecology Bridge1,145 lbs
  5. 5Deer Valley750 lbs
  6. 6Summit CWMA Board626 lbs
  7. 7Summit County600 lbs
  8. 8Harvey’s Hustlers555 lbs
  9. 9Dan and Kelly350 lbs
  10. 10SKK335 lbs
  11. 11Withim Place210 lbs
  12. 12Nash Family195 lbs
  13. 13Celeste is the Best!150 lbs
  14. 14Swaner Preserve70 lbs
  15. 15Double D44 lbs

Champions are crowned on pounds per teammate, so a small team that pulls hard can beat a big one. Entered weights are checked against photos.

Share of the season total

  • Park City35%
  • Summit CWMA Crew22%
  • Petrosky Family8%
  • Ecology Bridge8%
  • Deer Valley5%
  • Everyone else22%

Pulling on your own?

Weigh your bags, or guesstimate: a full trash bag is about 15 pounds. Enter the total with a photo and it lands on this board.

Enter pounds

What the Games are

A summer-long pull, scored by the pound.

Summit County residents, trail users and visitors form teams or pull individually and compete to see who can pull the most garlic mustard between May and August. Teams add to their totals at community weed pull events, at trailside pull stations, and by bagging garlic mustard in their own yards. Prizes are up for grabs all season, and the top teams win a food truck party at the end of the summer.

Garlic mustard is a state-listed noxious weed that outcompetes native vegetation, degrades soil, harms native pollinators, raises wildfire risk and weakens forest resilience. Most of Utah is unaffected; Summit County is battling a widespread invasion. The Games exist to control it, to educate and empower the community to stop the spread, and to reduce the use of herbicide.

Learn to identify garlic mustard
Volunteers with full bags at a Garlic Mustard Games eventA Rotary team pulling garlic mustardA trailer stacked with bagged garlic mustard

How to get involved

Four steps. No sign-up required.

  1. STEP 01

    Form a team

    Teams can be as big or small as you want. Compete as an individual or invite a squad. No sign-up or preregistration is required.

  2. STEP 02

    Pull garlic mustard

    Show up to as many community pull events as you can, visit a trailside pull station, or pull on your own property, along your favorite trail, or for a neighbor.

  3. STEP 03

    Weigh it

    At events, staff weigh your haul and add it to your team total. Pulling remotely? Weigh your bags, or guesstimate at about 15 pounds per full trash bag, and enter the total online with a photo.

  4. STEP 04

    Repeat

    The season is long. Go for gold by pulling as much as you can. Champions are ranked on pounds of garlic mustard per teammate.

Run out of places to pull? Email the CWMA and we will point you in the right direction. Event details and locations are on the calendar and on Facebook.

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Where to pull

Pull stations and event sites.

Trailside stations have bags and a sign; leave your haul there and crews collect it. Event sites are where the community pulls happen. Tap a point for its status.

  • Trailside pull station
  • Community pull event site
  • Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors via OpenFreeMap

Hall of fame

Garlic Mustard Games winners.

  1. 2024 & 2025Team AllisonReigning champion
  2. 2023Garlic Mustard Be Gone
  3. 2022Moose Moss
  4. 2021Ashley Caldwell
  5. 2020Nancy Scheibe
Team Allison, Garlic Mustard Games champions, with their haul
Team Allison, 2024 and 2025 champions

Why it works

Off the sidelines and into the field.

By inviting residents and visitors to step directly into areas overrun with garlic mustard and other noxious weeds, they see the problem up close, and just how big it really is. Pulling weeds alongside volunteers quickly changes perspective. It is not just a task; it is a hands-on lesson in the time, effort and strategy that managing invasive species takes.

Participants walk away understanding why we combine manual removal with herbicide, how to use those tools responsibly, and, most importantly, what they can do to help stop the spread. Reducing garlic mustard helps native plants rebound, improves ecosystem function and supports forests in capturing and storing carbon.

Sponsors

Local deals, gear and prizes.

Past partners such as Dakine, Deer Valley, Woodward and Arcade donated outdoor gear and bike passes. This season's line-up of local sponsors backs the prizes and the party.

Logos of the Garlic Mustard Games sponsors

Questions, comments, photos? Email jo@ecologybridge.com.