Oregon Trails Coalition
$13,750  West Cascades 

The Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit brings together two of Oregon’s premier outdoor recreation events: the Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit and Oregon Trails Summit. The event shapes the future of outdoor recreation with a focus on expanding outdoor recreation opportunities consistent with healthy fish, wildlife, and their habitats and connecting youth, families, and diverse and underserved communities to the outdoors.

The 2024 summit combines fun and high-impact in-person networking opportunities with conference programming on the important issues of the day, educational content, trail stewardship work parties, and in-field tours and workshops. The summit convenes Oregon’s diverse outdoor community to learn, build relationships, and find solutions to the challenges in developing and elevating outdoor recreation opportunities for all. It will include keynote and plenary sessions, educational panels, presentations, technical workshops, and strategic sessions designed to activate partners to advance our shared efforts.

The 2024 summit will primarily take place Thursday- Saturday, December 5th-7th, at the Sunriver Resort and surrounding areas in Central Oregon.

Through education programming and facilitating strategic cross-sector conversations, the summit seeks to accelerate efforts to:

• Connect Oregonians of all backgrounds and abilities to the outdoors and increase health equity
• Aid in the recovery of Oregon communities through outdoor recreation partnerships
• Address the impacts of climate change on outdoor recreation and build climate resilience
• Build a culture of environmental and cultural stewardship and healthy recreation
• Provide an off-street network of trails for recreating and traveling within and between Oregon communities
• Attract a wide range of visitors that contribute to Oregon’s urban and rural economies
• Support sustainable entrepreneurship and a thriving outdoor recreation economy that reduces economic disparities