Outdoor Recreation Resources

Snowsports Industries America
SIA is the winter industry’s non-profit trade association, supporting its members through insightful research, education and events, while advocating for issues that impact the future of the industry.

Outdoor Industry Association
The Outdoor Industry Association is a membership-driven trade organization for the outdoor industry. In collaboration with our members, we are a force for the industry in recreation and trade policy, sustainable business innovation and increasing outdoor participation.

Outdoor Recreation Roundtable
The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable is America’s leading coalition of outdoor recreation trade associations and organizations working to promote the growth of the outdoor recreation economy and outdoor recreation activities.
 

Outdoor Recreation Roundtable Rural Economic Development Toolkit
Outdoor recreation offers opportunities for sustainable economic and community development across the United States. Through interviews with over 60 practitioners - including elected officials, land managers, economic development specialists and business leaders - the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable has developed this toolkit to help communities build outdoor recreation economies.

Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan
Colorado’s 2019 to 2023 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan was developed in close collaboration with a wide range of partners to provide a shared vision for the future of Colorado’s outdoors.

Bureau of Economic Analysis Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released economic data for 2020 on outdoor recreation’s economic impact on the U.S. economy. These new numbers show outdoor recreation generated $689 billion in economic output and created 4.3 million jobs.

Colorado Outdoor Rx Report (PDF)
In 2018, the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office released the Colorado Outdoor Rx Report report demonstrating current challenges and opportunities in Colorado and how partners can better plan and implement a strategy that promotes health improvement through the great outdoors.

Confluence of States
The Confluence of States is a bipartisan organization developing a national platform to grow the outdoor recreation industry, protect our nation's wild places, and transform conservation into a driver for economic prosperity.

Colorado Outdoor Partnership
The Colorado Outdoor Partnership​ is a collaborative of leaders across the state of Colorado working to ensure our private and public lands are viable to support our wildlife, outdoor and agricultural heritage, and economic well-being for generations to come.

NoCO PLACES 2050
NoCo PLACES 2050 collaborates to protect and conserve natural and cultural resources in Colorado while providing equitable access and a quality recreation experience for current and future generations.

National Governors Association Outdoor Recreation Learning Network
The National Governors Association Outdoor Recreation Learning Network helps governors and their outdoor recreation staff explore strategies to leverage their unique natural, cultural and historical resources to improve access to and help promote economic, social, and environmental benefits.

Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative
The Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative is a new stakeholder-driven collaborative aimed at increasing the resilience of our forests, habitat, communities, recreation opportunities, and water resources across all lands in the Rocky Mountains.

Recreate Responsibly Coalition
The Recreate Responsibly Coalition is an active coalition of over 1,000 businesses, agencies, nonprofits and influential voices, developing and sharing best practices to protect each other and our natural landscapes. We are brought together by a shared love of the outdoors and a desire to help everyone experience the benefits of nature safely during this public health crisis.

Care for Colorado
The Care for Colorado Coalition is an alliance of more than 20 statewide organizations and federal land managers dedicated to educating Coloradans and visitors to protect the state’s extraordinary natural and cultural resources.

Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals is the nation’s leading association of outdoor recreation and related professionals who strive to protect our natural and cultural resources while providing sustainable recreation access.

Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education
The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) is an organization dedicated to serving the needs of recreation and education professionals in non-profit settings. AORE is committed to promoting ecologically sound stewardship of the natural environment and serves as a collective voice for its members regarding topics of regional and national concern.

Rural is Rad
The Rural is Rad (RiR) movement has officially launched to support rural brands and founders in the outdoor industry by helping consumers and specialty, independent retailers discover new brands. Their mission is to empower consumers to shop locally while fostering brand awareness for the amazing products, jobs and communities that are being developed in more remote places. While it is currently Colorado-based, the movement has a vision for the community they are creating to become a formula that rural brands nationwide can replicate in the years to come.