Colorado Native Landscaping Rebates

$3 per square foot for traditional water-wise landscapes (shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses with mulch). $0.50/sq ft for water-wise grass using warm-season native or low-water grass. Applications accepted in spring and fall groups.

One-time payment via check. Two application windows per year.

$3.25 per square foot for replacing turf with ColoradoScape plants. $1.00/sq ft for hardscape (concrete, decks). Minimum 400 sq ft or entire front yard. Maximum 1,500 sq ft combined per account. Artificial turf does not qualify.

One of the more generous suburban programs in Colorado at $3.25/sq ft. Pre-approval required before any work begins; first-come, first-served.

Funding up to $10,000 for small landscapes (under 7,000 sq ft) covering design, materials, labor, and outreach. Applications due by November 1 for the upcoming calendar year. Projects must be completed by October 15.

Competitive program with limited funding. Denver Water also offers free sprinkler system audits. Resource Central Smart Lawn program (see below) is a separate $750 subsidy for turf removal via a managed crew.

Rebate for removing high-water-use lawns and replacing with xeriscaping (low-water landscaping). Up to $2,000 per household while funds last.

Erie also offers additional water efficiency rebates for irrigation equipment and smart controllers.

Thornton Water offers rebates for replacing high-water turf with low-water xeriscape plants and mulch. Rate and maximum rebate amount vary by program year. Pre-approval required before any turf removal begins.

Confirm current rebate rate and program window at thorntonco.gov before planning a project. Amounts have varied by year.

Westminster Utilities offers the WaterWise Landscape program, paying per square foot for converting high-water turf to low-water xeriscape. Rate and caps vary by year. Pre-approval required before any conversion begins.

Westminster also offers a smart irrigation controller rebate. Confirm current rates at cityofwestminster.us before planning.

City of Boulder Water customers get a $1.75/sq ft subsidy (up to $750) toward Resource Central's turf removal service. Resource Central provides the crew, equipment, and composting - you pay only $1/sq ft for the first 428 sq ft. After the crew removes turf, you must plant at least 50% water-wise plants within 6 months. Minimum 200 sq ft. Slots fill by mid-summer.

Apply early in the calendar year - 2026 slots fill quickly. Resource Central provides the removal crew; you cannot hire a separate contractor for this program.

$0.75 per square foot up to 1,000 sq ft ($750 max) per project. Additional native plant bonus of $0.25/sq ft (up to $1,000 total) when planting 80% or more native Colorado plants with 50% coverage at maturity. First-come, first-served.

Fort Collins also offers free sustainable landscape classes, sprinkler evaluations, and irrigation equipment rebates. Class attendance required before applying for XIP.

City of Greeley residents (homeowners and landlords) receive $1.00 per square foot to convert a minimum of 500 square feet of healthy, well-watered turf to native and/or water-wise plantings, up to $3,000 per household per year. Requires watching or attending a class, registering for the WaterSmart portal, before-photos, and at least 50% live plant coverage at maturity per the Greeley Landscape Code; reimbursement after receipts (City of Greeley Water & Sewer; last verified June 2026).

Discontinued: City of Greeley (Margarita Padilla-Pizarro, efficiency@greeleygov.com) confirmed 2026-08-12 "We no longer offer the Life After Lawn program." Checked greeleyco.gov/water-and-sewer/save-water/residential-rebates/ 2026-08-13: only irrigation-hardware rebates remain (toilet, smart controller, weather sensor, pressure-reducing components, rotary nozzles, drip zone conversion), none of which is a turf/native-landscaping conversion rebate, so no replacement program exists to list in its place.

Free native grass seed (up to $150 value) and free high-efficiency sprinkler nozzles (up to $100 value) for replacing traditional turf with native grasses. Expert advice and educational classes included.

Program fills quickly due to high interest. 2026 registration is closed at capacity. Colorado Springs also offers a New Home Landscape Incentive ($1/sq ft) for newly constructed homes. Contact lpace@csu.org for details.

Pays $1 per square foot of cool-season turf removed and converted to a meadowscape or native perennial garden, with a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 2,500 square feet (up to $2,500), for Eagle County residents including those served by the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District. A Beyond Lawn evaluation and report must be completed before applying. The combined 2026 maximum award (turf plus irrigation) is $7,500 (Eagle County Conservation District; last verified July 2026).

Resolves the prior Eagle River WSD "Beyond Lawn" carry-forward lead: ERWSD no longer runs its own rebate and routes residents to this Eagle County Conservation District program (live 2026 rate page). Substantial ($2,500 turf cap) - candidate for a future deep-guide hub upgrade. The third-party $1.44/sq ft figure was NOT used; the official page shows a single $1/sq ft tier.

Pays up to $1 for every square foot of turf removed, to a maximum of $1,000 for residential customers. Requires 70% native plant coverage and prior design approval; applications accepted April 1 to September 1 (City of Brighton Utilities; last verified June 2026).

Reimbursement up to $2,000 residential (1,000 sq ft max). 2026 window open through Sep 1; paid after completion + inspection.

Pays $3.00 per square foot when turf is replaced with approved pollinator-supporting, low-water vegetation ($2.50/sq ft for low-water trees, shrubs, or native wildflower seed mix; $2.00/sq ft for approved low-water turf-grass varieties). Limited to parking strips in the public right-of-way; landscaping inside private property boundaries is not eligible. Existing turf must have automated irrigation and be relatively healthy, and the work must use a City-partner landscaping company. Funded by a Colorado Water Conservation Board grant plus a City match (City of Durango; last verified June 2026).

Limited to public right-of-way parking strips, not whole front yards. Grant-funded (CWCB + City match).

Pays residential Glenwood Water customers $2 per square foot of irrigated, established, non-native lawn removed and replaced with water-smart landscaping, up to 1,000 square feet ($2,000). Requires a pre-removal site visit with City staff and a post-removal visit (City of Glenwood Springs, administered via Garfield Clean Energy; last verified June 2026).

cogs.us city page 403s automated fetch; program administered for the City by Garfield Clean Energy / Clean Energy Economy for the Region.

$2/sq ft converting high-water grass to low-water plants, or $1/sq ft to low-water grass/groundcover. Residential 300-2,000 sq ft. CWCB-grant funded.

Open until grant funds exhausted; confirm availability.

Pays residential applicants $4 per square foot of turf replaced, up to $750, for converting lawn to native meadowscaping and waterwise plants (permeable hardscape capped at 50%) anywhere in Summit County. The converted landscape must keep at least 50% vegetation cover at maturity; clover, fine and tall fescues, buffalo grass, and artificial turf are not eligible. A Water Smart Lawn irrigation assessment is required first, applications are due within 90 days of the paid invoice, and a verification audit is done before the check is mailed (High Country Conservation Center; last verified July 2026).

County-wide nonprofit conservation center program. Amount read from the official 2026 program PDF.

$2.50 per square foot for ColoradoScape conversions or $1.50 per square foot for low-water turf, up to 2,000 square feet per property, with a 250 square foot minimum. HRCA or SACC approval required. Applications accepted March 1 through October 1; conversions complete by November 1; first-come, first-served funding (Highlands Ranch Water turf replacement program page, last verified June 2026).

Rebate amount varies by replacement material and is set on approval; confirm current terms with Highlands Ranch Water.

Pays up to $75 for converting irrigated turf to xeriscape, calculated on a square-footage basis (for example, 100 square feet earns $34), for Mount Werner Water & Sanitation District customers in the Steamboat Springs area. A landscape plan must be approved and followed, and the design must use the seven xeriscape principles. This is a small rebate (Mount Werner Water & Sanitation District; last verified July 2026).

Small rebate (up to $75 cap). The same 2026 Rebate Fact Sheet also lists irrigation-retrofit rebates, which are out of scope; only the xeriscape/turf-conversion category is captured here. Amount extracted from the Fact Sheet PDF via curl + pdftotext.

The Town of Windsor pays $1 to $2 per square foot of living turfgrass removed from the front yard, depending on project scope, up to a maximum of $2,000 per water account per year. At least 200 square feet of turfgrass must be replaced, and the new design must be at least 50% living plant material (low-water-use plants or grasses plus mulch); artificial turf is not eligible (Town of Windsor; last verified July 2026).

A genuine Windsor-administered rebate with its own budget and rate, not a Resource Central passthrough (unlike the previously-rejected Northglenn/Louisville CO/Parker W&SD/Wheat Ridge candidates checked this same sweep). Distinct from Windsor, California, which runs its own similarly-named turf rebate.