June 9, 2012

131
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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
Joe Reilly is the official GO Day Troubadour for 2011. His song "Let's Go Outside" has been selected as the official GO Day song for 2011 and will be played at GO Day sites across the country on June 11th.

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
Big Bear Discovery Center
Big Bear Discovery Center
Top 10 Reasons for NGOD
#4: The future of America's public lands will be determined by the extent to which Americans care about the Great Outdoors -- and if fewer people directly benefit from time outdoors, the prognosis is not good.