National Get Outdoors Day Preview Announced
A preview of the first-ever National Get Outdoors Day will be held in the Washington, D.C.
suburbs on May 31, two weeks before events will be held across the nation to help all
Americans – and especially American families with children – discover opportunities for healthy
fun. The preview will be hosted by the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of
America at Camp William B. Snyder with the involvement of dozens of national and regional
organizations.
National Get Outdoors Day
Participants from dozens of federal agencies
and non-profit organizations and the recreation industry gathered in Washington to
launch National Get Outdoors Day, a new annual event to encourage healthy, active
outdoor fun. On June 14, 2008, and each June thereafter, these partners will offer sites
for American families to experience traditional and non-traditional types of outdoor
activities. Prime goals of the day are reaching first-time visitors to public lands and
reconnecting our youth to the great outdoors.
National Get Outdoors Day sites will be selected using the following criteria:
- Proximity to/easy access from one or more metropolitan areas
- Capacity to host 2,000 -10,000 participants
- Existing food service, comfort stations and parking facilities
- Ease of involvement of multiple government and private-sector partners
- Ability to demonstrate outdoor activities such as bird watching, hiking, fishing, camping, and to provide information on pursuing those activities
- Capability to highlight traditional and non-traditional outdoor activities
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National Get Outdoors Day Overview
National Get Outdoors Day Promotional Materials
National Get Outdoors Day Locations
Outdoor Recreation Village
More than 40 organizations formed a unique
team of outdoor advocates to help tens of thousands of visitors to Glendale, Arizona,
drawn by Super Bowl XLII, discover healthy fun in the Great Outdoors. For four days,
the organizations produced the first-ever Outdoor Recreation Village at one of the
world’s top media events and used the Village as a platform to announce new initiatives
to connect all Americans, and especially American youth, to the nation’s wonderful
array of parks, forests, refuges and other public lands and waters.
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Outdoor Recreation Village Landing Page
2008 Report: 
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Kempthorne Remarks: Quicktime | Windows Media
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