Recreation: Get Out and Enjoy Your Public Lands

While volunteers will be working hard to improve their parks on National Public Lands Day, they will also be enjoying America’s natural wonders. NPLD is a gateway to discovering the beauty and opportunity for fun at our parks. We are encouraging all our site managers to promote the recreational opportunities to volunteers that are available in their park or public land facility.

The National Public Lands Day Program partners with a number of other organizations to promote the message of getting out and enjoying our public lands.

Play | Hike | Bike | Birding | Organizations | Outdoor Ethics | Recreation and Health Connections

Play

KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of our children. KaBOOM! facilitates this by building innovative, kid-inspired play-spaces, using a community-build model which improves the well-being of the children they serve as well as the communities in which they live. They create platforms and opportunities for the collaborative sharing and continual improvement of knowledge and tools needed for anyone to build playgrounds on their own. And they are advocate the importance for each child to have a safe and engaging place, as well as the time, to play.

Hike

American Hiking Society -- National Trails Day: Saturday, June 5, 2010
As the national voice for America’s hikers, American Hiking Society promotes and protects foot trails and the hiking experience. As a recreation-based non-profit organization, American Hiking Society champions conservation issues, builds partnerships between public and private stakeholders, and provides critical resources to plan, fund and develop foot trails. National Trails Day, AHS's signature trail awareness program, inspires the public and trail enthusiasts to seek out and enjoy their favorite trails every June.

Bike

International Mountain Bicycling Association
The International Mountain Bicycling Association is a non-profit educational association whose mission is to create, enhance and preserve great trail experiences for mountain bikers worldwide. Since 1988, IMBA has been bringing out the best in mountain biking by encouraging low-impact riding, volunteer trailwork participation, cooperation among different trail user groups, grassroots advocacy and innovative trail management solutions.

Go Birding

Audubon
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. Our national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences. Find an Audubon nature center near you.

Recreation Organizations

National Recreation and Parks Association
NRPA is the leading advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of public parks and recreation opportunities. Founded in 1965 through the merger of 5 national organizations dedicated to the same cause, NRPA has grown over the years - in total membership, in outreach efforts, in building partnerships, and in serving as the voice and defender of parks and recreation.

National Recreation Coalition
National Get Outdoors Day - June 12, 2010
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.

Outdoor Ethics

Leave No Trace
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.