Other Resources for Outdoor Recreation
The Wyoming Office of Outdoor Recreation provides a wealth of information on their website, including the interactive WONDER MAP – showing locations & info on parks, campgrounds, guides, trails, water access, services and more. Other resources: calendar of events, regional outdoor recreational collaboratives, Pathfinder assistance and more.
Sign up for their monthly updates & newsletter at the bottom of the OR Office’s page.
The UW Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality Initiative (WORTH) supports industries across the state through applied research, educational products, services and extension. They also organize an annual statewide outdoor recreation conference.
The WORTH Initiative also provides a regular newsletter. Sign up at bottom of the home page.
Rural Economic Development Toolkit. Updated in 2024, this toolkit developed by Outdoor Recreation Roundtable provides strategies for success sourced from communities around the country to achieve intersecting goals: healthy communities, high quality of life, robust businesses, resilient economies, and vibrant outdoor places.
After months of COVID-19 related closures, outdoor recreation destinations around the country reopened to unprecedented levels of interest. Americans flocked to the outdoors as a means for safe, family-friendly activities and generated major economic activity in communities providing outdoor recreation access. Not only this, but the rise of remote work led to people uprooting from their homes and moving to communities that offered higher quality of life—and outdoor recreation destinations are leading the way.