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Find out ways to get outside and groups to get outside with.
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Black Girls Run
Black Girls Run, Chapters across the country
Black girls run? Of course we do. There’s a huge misconception that black women don’t run. In 2009, Black Girls RUN! was created in an effort to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African-American community and provide encouragement and resources to both new and veteran runners. The goal of “Black Girls Run” is to encourage and motivate black women to practice a healthy lifestyle.
Brown Folks Fishing
Meet Ups in Portland, Oregon with ambassadors across the country.
A multidisciplinary team committed to diversifying the face of fishing. Also give consulting within the fishing industry.
Brown Girls Climb
DC + NY Based with annual events.
Brown Girls Climb aims to promote and increase visibility of diversity in climbing by establishing a community of climbers of color, encouraging leadership opportunities for self-identified women climbers of color, and by creating inclusive opportunities to climb and explore for under represented communities.
Brothers of Climbing Crew
Chapters in New York and Philly, connect via Facebook.
Black Girls Do Bike
Chapters Around the World
The mission is in growing and supporting a community of women of color who share a passion for cycling. We champion efforts to introduce the joy of cycling to all women, but especially, women and girls of color.
Confluence collective
Online and In-Person Fly-fishing Exchanges
Confluence Collective exists to forge connections between enthusiastic fly fishers near and far through shared ideals of conservation, education, and community. After navigating the challenges of finding a place on the riverbank individually, we knew more could be learned and achieved together. They host fly-fishing exchanges that highlight the knowledge and expertise of the community to share what fly fishing is like in the local context. Each program is designed and facilitated to provide a mindful and welcoming learning environment utilizing local waters and perspectives.
Disabled Hikers
Group hikes around the Olympic Peninsula and western Washington and Oregon.
Disabled Hikers is a project by disabled hikers for disabled hikers. We provide information and resources that will help you know what to expect on a trail and plan accordingly. We want to help you enjoy the outdoors and love the experience from where you are. If you have a friend or family member who is disabled, or if you are a beginning hiker, or you have temporary mobility limitations, this site may be helpful too.
The ‘About the Project’ page lists the details included in the guides; this is also helpful if you want to write your own accessible hiking guides.
Get Out Stay Out Foundation
Get Out Stay Out/Vamos Afuera is a grassroots, Central Coast nonprofit, that invites Indigenous Migrant youth to run, play, and discover themselves in the natural environment. Through equitable and culturally sensitive, outdoor programming GOSO believes the natural environment provides the perfect tools needed for youth to build self-confidence, develop leadership skills, and build community.
GirlTrek
Started in 1996 in Los Angeles, Now with Chapters in 50 Cities Across the Country. Take a Walk, Join a Movement.
In the footsteps of a civil rights legacy, GirlTrek is a national health movement that activates thousands of Black women to be change makers in their lives and communities — through walking.
Greening Youth Foundation
Atlanta, GA
The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults, while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural based environmental education programing engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.
Latino Outdoors
Started in California with 19 clubs across the country.
We inspire, connect, and engage Latino communities in the outdoors and embrace cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring our history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented.
Nuestra Tierra
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Youth outings, public events, rallies around issues related to the Mexico/US Border.
Mission: To ensure that Frontera (border) communities have access to the outdoors and that our history, values, and people are reflected in land management decisions through education, advocacy and empowerment.
Outdoor Afro
Started in California with 30 chapters across the country.
Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading, cutting edge network that celebrates and inspires African American connections and leadership in nature. We help people take better care of themselves, our communities, and our planet! Outdoor Afro is a national non-profit organization with leadership networks around the country. With nearly 80 leaders in 30 states from around the country, we connect thousands of people to outdoor experiences, who are changing the face of conservation.
The Outdoor Journal Tour
Based in Atlanta, Georgia with We Hike To Heal meetups across the country.
The Outdoor Journal Tour, lovingly dubbed ODJT, is a community built for women to facilitate personal growth and alignment. We use a beautiful combination of physical activity, guided journaling and meditation to help women create this balance.
RISING HEARTS
Nationwide/Virtual
Rising Hearts is an indigenous led grassroots organization committed to the heart work in elevating indigenous voices and promoting and supporting intersectional collaborative efforts across all movements with the goals of racial, social climate and economic justice. Our primary focuses are to inform, elevating, mobilize and organize through strategic and targeted advocacy, establishing collaborative partnership to help create a better and safer future, and environment for all relatives who inhabit this planet - past, present and future,
Runners for Public Lands
Runners for Public Lands
Northern California
We are runners who promote runner environmental literacy, mobilize runner participation in conservation work, and support runner advocacy around public lands, climate change, equitable access, and sustainability. RPL is a community and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Ventura, CA. We work across the region, which includes the Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Monica Mountains.
Textured Waves
Beach Meet Ups in California
Created to propagate the culture and sport of women’s surfing towards women of color and underrepresented demographics through representation, community and sisterly camaraderie.
Learn More Follow @texturedwaves
Venture Out Project
Weekly Hikes in Western Massachusetts with MeetUps and Leaders across the country.
We believe in bringing the queer community together to experience the beauty and fun of the wilderness. Our trips are run by queer people for queer people and are open to people of all levels of experience. We hope you'll Venture Out with us soon!
Wild Diversity
Outings + Education in the Pacific Northwest
Wild Diversity elevates Black, Indigenous, all People of Color (BIPOC) and the LGBTQ communities in the outdoors. We also offer resources and programing to queer youth, youth of color and low income youth. We are here to provide a safe and welcoming space for our community to explore outdoor adventures in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Women Who Hike
We are here to encourage women to be brave in exploration, proud in accomplishment, and rich in self love.
WTFBikeplorers
Started in Portland, OR with Gravel Rides and Bike Clinics across the country.
WTF Bikexplorers was founded in the fall of 2017 when six friends were inspired to collaborate on a movement toward more connection, gender inclusivity, and racial equality within the bicycle adventure community. Our collective mission is to support, celebrate, and connect communities who identify as women, transgender, femme, and/or non-binary who use their bicycles to explore (beit the outdoors, themselves, each other, etc.)
Online Communities
While these groups don’t all have official meet-ups, these digital communities increase representation, spark ideas and challenge our thinking and might help you find people to connect and create community with. We’re thankful for them!
Brown People Camping
Digital Community
A social media initiative that utilizes personal narratives and digital storytelling to promote greater diversity in our public lands and outdoors community.
Indigenous Women Hike
Started by Jolie Varela, a citizen of the Nüümü and Yokut Nations who spent three months at Oceti Sakowin standing with her relatives against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Upon returning home she wanted to figure out how to keep the sacred fire burning in her own community. Indigenous Women Hike is her sacred fire. Jolie is a survivor who began connecting to her homelands through hiking during her late 20’s. She found healing both mentally and spiritually out on the land.
Melanin Basecamp
Digital Community and Online Journal
Welcome to Melanin Base Camp: your home base for diversity in outdoor adventure sports. Our purpose is to inspire you with weekly content from Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous and Queer People of Color who love the outdoors. Join the movement and help us #diversifyoutdoors.
Native Women’s Wilderness
To inspire and raise the voices of Native Women in the outdoor realm. To encourage a healthy lifestyle grounded in the wilderness. To educate Natives and non-Natives on the rich beauty and heritage of the Ancestral Lands beneath our feet.
Native Women Running
Digital Community with roots in Minnesota
An online community with the mission to feature and encourage Native (Indigenous) women in the running community on and off the reservation.
Unlikely Hikers
Digital Community Based in Portland, OR with meetups across the country.
Unlikely Hikers is a diverse and inclusive Instagram community featuring the underrepresented outdoorsperson. The outdoor industry and outdoors social media tend to display a very narrow definition of who is “outdoorsy,” that isn’t representative of most of us. We are people of size, people of color, queer, trans and gender nonconforming. We are people with disabilities and people who utilize the outdoors to aid our mental health. We talk about access, politics and conservation while we honor the land and its Indigenous stewards. We don’t conflate these experiences, we explore and build community at their intersections. We all have a story. If you see yourself as an Unlikely Hiker, then you are. Welcome!
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