June 8, 2013

234
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National Get Outdoors Day is a new annual event to encourage healthy, active outdoor fun.

Participating partners will offer opportunities 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.

Joe Reilly is the official Troubadour for Get Outdoors Day. His song "Let's Go Outside" is played at GO Day sites across the country.

lets_go_outside.mp3

Joe has been making folk music to introduce children to the great outdoors for over a decade, and he has been featured on National Public Radio's environmental program Living on Earth. His albums for children include "Children of the Earth" and "Let's Go Outside."

You can visit Joe's website at www.joereilly.org
National Get Outdoors Day Partners
  American Recreation Coalition
Dedicated to the protection and enhancement of everyone's right to health and happiness through recreation.
 
 
  U.S. Forest Service
100 years of caring for the land and serving people.
  America's Byways
Resource Center
 
  Clif Bar
 
  National Marine
Manufacturers Association
 
  Pennsylvania Recreation Vehicle and Camping Association
 
  The Coleman Company

Photo of the Day
City of Vancouver Water Resources Education Center gets ready for National Get Outdoors Day
City of Vancouver Water Resources Education Center
Top 10 Reasons for NGOD
#8: America's youth tell us that we are not reaching them with invitations to be active outdoors because we are not using the communications channels they utilize most: social networking sites including YouTube and MySpace and text messaging and photo-sharing from phone to phone. They tell us they are interested in the outdoors but need "triggers," and National Get Outdoors Day intends to be a trigger.