June 12, 2010

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Check out highlights from GO-Day 2009 in Denver!
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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.

Featured News
GO Day 2009 Final Report
GO Day Press Release
June 22, 2009

To combat the threats posed by today’s indoor, inactive lifestyles – such as the growing obesity epidemic and the projection that today’s kids will live shorter lives than their parents due to lifestyle choices – several hundred local, state and federal agencies, diverse nonprofit organizations in the health and youth-services fields, the recreation community and media interests teamed up to host the second annual National Get Outdoors Day (GO-Day) on June 13, 2009. The national effort was again led by the U.S. Forest Service (FS) and the American Recreation Coalition (ARC), but the number and diversity of the organizations involved nationally and locally increased sharply. Uniting these partners was a shared belief in the Mission of National Get Outdoors Day...

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

From Governor Ed Rendell
WhereAs, through biking, swimming, skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, and many other activities, we are able to enjoy the healthy benefits of outdoor recreation and enjoy memorable experiences with family and friends...

Pennsylvania Proclamation