Outdoor Recreation Industry Showcases Power Of Americans Getting Outside In New Video

Today, the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR) and its members released an energizing video highlighting many outdoor recreation activities, the $689 billion outdoor recreation economy, and the more than 4.3 million jobs it supports while urging Americans to get outside and recreate. The video emphasizes how the outdoor recreation industry boosts our local and national economies, and how recreating outdoors has been a fun, healthful respite for many over the past two years and will continue to be in the future.

Also today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to pass the first-ever recreation package. The package, entitled America’s Outdoor Recreation Act of 2022, includes many legislative proposals the RV Industry has advocated for alongside our partners in the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable.

America’s Outdoor Recreation Act of 2022 includes Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation (SOAR) Act, the Outdoor Recreation Act, Recreation Not Red-Tape, and other bipartisan and pragmatic outdoor recreation legislation. ORR, the RV Industry Association, and our partners have urged Congress to pass the package as soon as possible to help ensure better access to the outdoors for all Americans, mitigate the impacts of climate change and ever-increasing visitation in some areas on the outdoor experience and create jobs by supporting rural economies and communities.

Passage of the package is expected later today and we will provide updates as they become available.