Explore Attractions Closer to Home for Now

As a travel blogger and beach aficionado, the pandemic really took a toll on the activities we outdoors adventurers loved. Because of this, I want to take advantage of the fact that things are slowly starting to revert back to how they were.

To re-engage myself with the outdoors and explore, I plan to partake in a lot of camping this spring and summer. I want to book campsites close to home, but also in other states. I am still not quite ready to jump on a plane and go to other countries, but I feel safe and excited to explore my country and the little attractions each city has to offer. This will at least satisfy my need for the outside and adventure until I travel again.

Avoid Crowded Places and Observe Social Distancing

My preferred outdoor activity is running and hanging out at parks. I’m re-engaging by, most importantly, prioritizing my safety and that of other people. That is by avoiding crowds, poorly ventilated events, and observing social distance or wearing a mask around people I don’t live with, especially when enjoying parks and taking idle strolls outside. The aim is to enjoy safely; thus, I’ve gotten the vaccine jab, and maintain high hygiene levels such as always carrying a hand sanitizer, checking my temperature, and getting tested to avoid unknowingly spreading the virus.

First Aid and Job-Related Training

The most common type of training that any outdoor activity guide must go through is first aid. The exact type of first aid training can vary, but a wilderness first responder course is pretty standard.

This course gives you essential life-saving skills that can be used in the field. You learn how to dress a wound, perform CPR, deal with a spinal injury, and many other skills that can prove to be crucial in an emergency.

Other types of training will be a more likely job or activity-specific. For example, ski and snowboard instructors need to go through a course that highlights the essential skills and practices involved with learning the basics of those sports.

Instructors almost always need to have a certification of this training to get a job, and it ensures that they have the skills to help others learn how to ski or snowboard effectively.

Aside from first aid and certifications, I think experience in the outdoor activity a guide works in is equally as important as any training.

Activity Type Determines Training

The type of training might depend on the kind of activity and the location. One example is the guides for climbing, which have a more advanced level of training and knowledge because safety is paramount.

Climbing guides must understand rock formations and weather patterns in addition to the athletic ability it takes to climb. Guides who lead children or less physically adept adults tend to have less training, but they need an understanding of emergency procedures such as first aid to assist if something goes wrong.

Outdoors guides who lead more sedentary activities have some of the least amount of training. However, they still need knowledge about the activity itself and how to be aware of possible hazards.

In the case of climbing guides, they would likely have to be trained in handling ropes and equipment, such as carabiners and safety harnesses. They also need climbing experience to know what skills are necessary for different types of climbs.

The Most Preferred Certifications

Other than the usual customer service skills such as public speaking and the ability to handle stressful situations, outdoor activity guides are required to have different certifications and licenses such as a first aid certification, the wilderness first responder certification, and wilderness first aid certification. While the certifications differ based on each job, these three are the ones that most jobs require or prefer.

Top 6 Haunted Outdoor Attractions

The thrill and excitement of being scared is a feeling we can’t resist, which is why every year people flock to these destinations. With the global pandemic limiting travel, many are looking for an in-state escape, which could explain why searches for “haunted places to visit near me” have increased by 180%.”

1. The Goatman Bridge / Old Alton Bridge

Goatman’s Bridge is a historic truss bridge connecting the Texas cities Denton and Copper Canyon. According to legend, the bridge is said to be haunted by a demonic half-man half-goat figure called Goatman. The Goatman will meet you if you cross the bridge at night without headlights, according to locals. Visitors who dared to cross the bridge have reported being touched, grabbed, and even having rocks thrown at them.

2. The Mothman of West Virginia / The Silver Bridge

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, there were reports of something strange in the area described as a “large flying man with ten-foot wings and glowing red eyes.” This figure would become known as the Mothman. After the Silver Bridge collapsed and killed 46 people, many conspiracy theorists linked the collapse with the Mothman. Since 2002, Point Pleasant has fully embraced its famous, spooky resident with an annual Mothman Festival and a 12-foot metallic statue and museum for tourists to visit.

3. New Orleans

Some might consider New Orleans the party city of the United States, but many flock to the Big Easy every year to immerse themselves in the US’s most haunted city. The city has a rich history and is known for its witchcraft and voodoo culture. Whether you choose to explore the French Quarter after dark or St Louis Cemetery, be careful after dark as the spirits of Madame LaLaurie or the Axeman just might come to say a not-so-friendly hello.

4. Area 51

Whether you believe in the paranormal [or not], visitors can’t deny the eerie feeling when they visit Area 51. Area 51 is a classified United States Air Force facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range. The first reports of “unidentified flying objects” began in 1955 and have not stopped since. Warning signs, electronic surveillance, and armed guards keep the general population at bay, adding to the alien conspiracy claims.

5. Hoia-Baciu Forest

Interest in ghosts and ghouls has been rising, with ghost tourism being a popular activity in Bucharest. The capital of Romania is a booming horror hotspot known for its ghost sightings. Hoia-Baciu Forest is considered to be one of the most haunted forests in the world. Visitors have reported hearing voices, unexpected lights, skin burns, headaches, anxiety, or even fainting. Many consider Hoia-Bacui to be tormented by spirits that are haunting the woods. What makes this forest so spooky is the circle of land where nothing grows.

6. Pluckley Village

Pluckley might seem like a quaint village nestled in Kent, but it is considered to be one of the most haunted villages in the UK, according to the Guinness World Records. A ghost walk exploring haunted spots including the Church of St. Nicholas, Greystones, and Rose Court will be sure to make the hairs at the back of your arms stick up!

Ghost Tree at Pescadero Point

Fall is the prime season to enjoy the spectacular views at California’s Pebble Beach Resorts. The morning fog of summer gives way to clear skies along the California coastline. Not only can guests soak up those vistas from one of the resort’s legendary golf courses, but if they can bear to step away from the greens, they’ll find one of the most scenic drives in the world right at their doorstep.

For those drawn to autumn ghost stories, Ghost Tree at Pescadero Point is a must-visit. These pale, ghostly trees clustered along the coast at Pescadero Point evoke images of ghosts [with] their eerie, unusual appearance. There is a long-standing tale surrounding the most famous Ghost Tree on the Pebble Beach coast. Many drivers on the route claim to have seen a woman’s image, the “Lady in Lace,” in the middle of the road on dark, foggy nights.

Bring a Quality Rain Jacket and Dry Clothing

A quality rain jacket

The first and most important item is a high-quality raincoat. Having a jacket that will not get you soaked right away will protect you from the rain and is essential for maintaining body heat. Most importantly, ensure that it is waterproof rather than just water-resistant.

Dry Clothing

The next most important thing you should bring is dry clothing for after you’ve finished rafting. You don’t want to have to make the trip back home in soaked clothes.

Avoid this:
Cotton Clothing

After learning the hard way, I’ve realized that avoiding cotton clothing is critical. It doesn’t dry well and it can make you shivering and embarrassed.

Wear Waterproof, not Water-Resistant

What I recommend is waterproof gear or a jacket. Most people get a hooded jacket that is merely water-resistant. In the rain, this will not make a difference. The same thing goes with plastic ponchos and wetsuits.

Waterproof rain gear is far better as water will never penetrate. As such, you will not get wet. You will stay dry and a bit warm inside and you can keep your gadgetries safe from water.

Be Specific About the Details

They all sound like brilliant people, so I’m confident they’ll be impressed with your thoughtful approach to getting them out in the sunshine.

1.) Be specific about what you want them to do. Don’t just say we’re going on an adventure or doing something outdoorsy.

• Where are you going?
• What are you doing?
• What time frame will it take place in? (e.g., can they bring their dog, will they need to get anything specific?)
• Who else will be coming along, and what’s the seating arrangement when they arrive?

2.) Bring sample pictures from Google Images so they can be more interested in the outdoor activity you are planning.

Look, Everybody’s Doing It!

To motivate people, you have to focus on what they value most in life. Some people may not care that hiking or some activity will make them feel better or get them in shape. As frustrating as it is, nowadays social media is valued highly by many people, so showing them a view or photo opportunity they could post on social media could be enough of a motivation to get that person up and moving. The hope is that once the person is participating, they’ll enjoy the activity enough that the other typical motivations for doing it (such as getting in shape) will take over and become dominant.

One other important note is that if you can garner some interest from the person for the activity, you have to make the barrier of entry as small as possible. This could be as simple as organizing the entire hike and being willing to drive to the spot. Whatever requires the least amount of effort by the other person is key to get them out there the first time.

Set the Scene

I use this way to ask them for a new outdoor activity that we didn’t try before or something that we don’t do a lot:

I usually start by planning to watch a movie about [the activity], fishing for example. If it’s not available, I use YouTube videos or Facebook videos. Then, I mention some advantages of this outdoor activity and relate it to my family and what we can learn from it. Most of the time, they will ask you to do it. If they don’t, you can ask them by saying, “We should try it” or something like that.

Offer Something They Love in Return for A Little Effort

It could be an out-of-the-way restaurant or cafe at the end of a countryside walk. A bottle of wine over a lakeside sunset. A sporting or cultural event taking place that involves a walk.

The key is to not make it all sound too strenuous and to combine the “getting outside” bit with something that will interest them and make the effort seem worthwhile. To make it fun and enjoyable from their perspective, not just from the outdoor enthusiast’s view.

To an outdoorsy type just being out there is enough, the destination is unimportant. For the layman, the end has to justify the means!

Carlisle Bay in Barbados

The beaches in Barbados provide some of the best places in the Caribbean for casual swimmers to see shipwrecks or underwater relics from wrecks.

Carlisle Bay in Barbados is a top Caribbean destination for scuba divers who flock to the numerous shipwrecks. For non-divers, the bay is a well-known and popular beach for sunbathing and cooling off in the beautiful water. What many travelers don’t realize is you can swim out from shore with just goggles and easily check out plenty of the wrecks. No dive experience or gear is needed! The wrecks are in shallow, crystal-clear water and easily visible from the surface. Many are just a few yards under the surface for swimmers to explore.

Don’t leave your goggles at the hotel when you go to other beaches on the island! Swimmers can stumble upon pieces of shipwrecks in waist-deep water in the areas surrounding dozens of the local beaches. Pop on your goggles when you’re swimming around and keep an eye out for intact canons or anchors that litter the rocky shallows, often mere feet from the shore!

Shipwreck in the Red Sea

The Red Sea in Egypt is a popular water adventure spot for tourists and divers. If you’re looking to explore the remains of The SS Thistlegorm shipwreck, which was a British cargo ship that sunk in 1941 after a German air attack, then Egypt is the place to go.

Russian River Falls

Just a one-hour drive from the City of Kenai, the largest and oldest city on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, is the prospect of wild salmon leaping a waterfall right in front of you. Russian River Falls is a 5.1-mile trail good for all skill levels.

The best time to go is April-October, when you can catch thousands of sockeye salmon attempting to leap the falls to reach spawning grounds upstream. You can also catch a plethora of other wildlife, including bears, harlequin ducks, eagles, moose, and more!

3 Simple Questions

When someone is comparing kayaking and water rafting, I always ask them three simple questions to narrow down their decision.

• How adventurous are they feeling?
• How many people are they planning on going with?
• How well do they work in a team?

With these three questions, they almost always make the right decision. If they are adventurous, they choose kayaks, and if they are going with a large group, they choose rafts. Every once in a while, you will get someone in a group who is adventurous and doesn’t work well in a team. They always choose kayaks.

Know Your Abilities

Kayaking is often done on lakes and calmer rivers. Kayaking is often the best place to start. You have control over your vessel and will be in water you can handle.

River rafting, while it can be a calm float down a river, more often includes some rapids. Often, river rafting is done in a group on a shared raft. If considering river rafting, how comfortable are you with the possibility of falling out? Can you swim well? Will you be rattled if you fall out? Lastly, you must determine the severity of the rapids on the river. What level is it, and can you handle it? I am experienced, and a level 3 is enough for me and might be too much for a beginner.

Alone or with friends?

There isn’t much of a difference between the two activities because they both require muscle work. However, one involves teamwork, whereas the other involves solo paddling.

If you enjoy spending time with your friends and working together to achieve a goal, then water rafting is the activity for you. However, if you enjoy working alone, accomplishing things on your own, and having your own time, kayaking is the activity for you.

Otherwise, there isn’t much of a difference between the two. They both have similar benefits and are enjoyable outdoor activities.

Are You Seeking Adventure?

If you like to take it easy, then flatwater kayaking is the perfect choice for you because the water is calm, and you are in control of things like speed on the water. If you prefer a bit of adventure, then rafting is the optimal choice for you.

I think rafts are slightly harder to control, and they tend to be used on fast-moving water, which makes each time rafting an exciting, new experience. Of course, keep in mind that rafting isn’t really a solo activity. If you’re on your own, then you’ll need to stick with kayaking. Just keep in mind that you can spice up your kayaking adventures by taking the kayak out on faster moving waterways.

Plan Ahead

Before exploring white river rafting, contact the adventure company to check what the person with disabilities can and cannot do. Know that white river rafting is possible for individuals with a wide range of disabilities. Call the company ahead of booking the trip so that they can accommodate your needs perfectly.

Important information to keep in mind:

All Rafters must pass the float test while wearing a life jacket.

The adventure company will be able to advise disabled individuals on the degree of difficulty they should begin with.

If the individual is on any medications, they must ensure that they have their medication with them while they are on the water.

Rafting Is Risky

I think all you have to do is to enjoy and don’t forget to bring protective gear and also your medical maintenance if in case of emergency.

Rafting, even with a reputable company, is inherently dangerous. Accidents happen, so make sure you listen during the safety briefs and make sure your 14-year-old understands that people have died doing exactly what you all are doing. It’s not a scare tactic, it’s just real talk. Southern West Virginia whitewater is legit.

Bluff Shelters of the Arkansas Ozarks

The bluff shelters of the Ozarks in Arkansas are home to prehistoric and historic rock art of the Native Americans. Thousands of years ago these shelters were used by people to live. Archeologists can trace i 9000 years of history in these shelters in the Ozark Mountains. Visitors can find two types of art in these mountains and shelters: pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictographs are paintings drawn on the surface of rocks mostly with red and black colors that the native people created through minerals. Petroglyphs are made by pecking the rocks and creating some shapes. You’ll find plenty of this art in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.

Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California)

Located in California, Painted Rock is a sacred place for Yokuts, Chumash, and Salinan people. Around 3000-4000 years ago, native Americans started painting their sacred images within the alcove. You can still see the pieces of art at least 200 – 1000 years old. Over the years, the walls have been vandalized with graffiti; hence, the older paintings are not preserved. However, it is still one of the most iconic places to witness native American art.

Spanish Ship (East County, San Diego, California)

In an undisclosed location, somewhere on the east side of San Diego, a huge boulder carries possibly the oldest interpretation of rock art. There’s a replica of the same boulder present at the maritime museum of San Diego.

Judaculla Rock (Cullowhee, North Carolina)

This specific rock has 1548 carvings, which is more than on any other rock in the eastern United States. Its whole existence has been a mystery, as experts have failed to understand the art. Some local historians say the recent ones depict a map of local resources.

Reef Bay Trail (US Virgin Islands)

This is one of the most beautiful [examples of] rock art found in the US Virgin Islands and pays homage to the Taino civilization, which flourished from 900-1490s. The basalt rock has been decorated beautifully in a space stretching about 20 feet.

Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Fossils

Dinosaur National Monument is famous for dinosaur fossils and river rafting on the Green River and Yampa River, but it is a treasure trove of amazing rock art. My personal favorite rock art sites are found along the river as we float on our 4- and 5-day raft trips.

I really enjoy the sites found in Echo Park where the Yampa River and Green River join forces. Echo Park is an archaeology treasure trove with multiple sites in several locations with petroglyphs and pictographs from the Fremont culture. The Fremont culture inhabited the region 700 to 1200 years ago. This indigenous culture did not leave a lot of evidence of their lifestyle in Dinosaur National Monument except for some fabulous art sites.

My personal favorite is a hard to access rock art site located on the cliff face of Steamboat Rock. This site is only accessible by rafting the river and a short hike up to the base of a magnificent geologic feature.

Echo Park has several sites accessible by car and viewable from the roadside. [Although] this road is only recommended for high clearance vehicles and 4-wheel drive, its definitely worth the trip-one of the most scenic drives in Colorado.

Outdoor recreation and visitation

Outdoor recreation and visitation are the two most powerful tools in the conservationist’s PR kit.

As we saw with climate change, a PR campaign can only take you so far. Scientists, movies, documentaries, television, and social media did manage to make a dent. But physically experiencing the damage by seeing it in person is an entirely different story.

Growing up in Indiana and Illinois, my childhood was largely outdoor-based, but there were never any enormous expanses of preserved land to enjoy and explore like there are in western states. Midwest economies are driven by a lot of agriculture, and children have a very small sphere of perspective about the great big world out there. A child that sees no realistic opportunity to ever experience the more magical and wild places of the world might care less about recycling, proper trash disposal, water table pollution, or biodiversity. The wheels underpinning civilization often mask the real cost of things through economies of scale. You throw your trash into a bin. Maybe you throw your trash out the window. Who cares? It goes somewhere over there, someone else will pick it up, and it disappears into the ether. It costs nothing, and it’s not really your problem.

In 2011, I spent some time at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. There were some stringent regulations there about environmental protection that make you roll your eyes when you’re performing military duties. But when the time came that someone spilled diesel on the ground and we had to dig out the ground to make sure the contamination didn’t spread, nobody had any problem with this manual labor. These midwestern young men had never experienced total immersion in such a spectacularly beautiful and untouched place. We all cared for it in a much deeper way by experiencing it than anyone giving us an environmental lecture could hope to do.

The unfathomable size of the sequoias, the fresh pine smell of the little ground plants that filled the air, and the brilliant smog-free sunrise and sunset were enchanting. I fell deeply in love with nature during my time there, and I have never forgotten it.

When I was around 16, I worked at Best Buy. One of the sales tactics we were taught was to put the product in the customer’s hands. This works because people begin to take mental ownership of the product while they’re holding it. They want it. They’re enjoying the fantasy of owning it. Tourism works in the same way.

While not everyone can get up and move to more secluded or wild areas to enjoy them year-round, an enormous number of people weekend and vacation in and around our National and State Parks, Forests, and Wilderness areas. In the past 10 years, 51% of Americans have declared that they annually enjoy outdoor recreation of some kind. I would guess that number has grown higher in recent years as the internet has pulled us all closer together 24/7 and made the “wanderlust” lifestyle more appealing through social media.

In this space, the outdoors represent freedom: freedom from bills, emails, phone calls, text messages, work schedules, the boss, car exhaust, sirens, and the constant stream of negativity and noise coming from politics, television, and social media. For a nation that claims freedom as a foundational principle, the areas in which it may be experienced are dwindling. People are becoming more aware of this.

Astronauts have said that viewing the Earth from above has given many of them a new perspective about the world. When people visit tourist sites and see how small and fragile even our most enormous and majestic places are, many of them are changed. Outdoor conservation is one thing that both the right and the left actually agree on. Hunters and anglers generate more revenue for outdoor conservation than the Sierra Club. People that enjoy and use the outdoors understand how limited it is becoming as cities spread and trash shows up on the banks of protected rivers. The spread of civilization is beginning to threaten their favorite hobbies and pastimes.

We don’t need less visitation or recreation in the world’s wild places, we simply need better management, enforcement, and more protected areas. The American Outdoors Act is fixing a lot of upkeep issues with our outdoor management institutions and facilities, but this is more a war of hearts and minds than money.

Outdoor recreational opportunities can be limited for people that have little disposable income or little experience in the joy of it. Our wildlands bring out the best in us. There’s drama, romance, liberty, solitude, purity, chaos, and natural order. It’s sacrificing the ease and comfort of civilization in the great pursuit of adventure. The wild is the only place left where you can discover something that has never been seen before. Increasing access through recreational opportunities will win hearts and minds once people experience feeling small again. It shouldn’t be limited to an easy drive on a paved road. Like a runner’s high, the reward is in the sacrifice.

It may take sweat and solid footwear to get to a glorious waterfall, but everyone that has been there knowing why it is better than looking at a photo online.

I recently started a personal program in the past couple of years that I plan to take mainstream. While living in the Phoenix area, I would often visit the wild horse bands of the Salt River. The grace, majesty, and beauty of these animals are hard to beat for a 20-minute drive from home. Unfortunately, boaters, tubers, and campers have absolutely wrecked the shoreline with trash. No matter how many volunteer cleanups were organized, the manpower available to combat the litter is simply overwhelmed.

It occurred to me that like many things, we may be able to spontaneously crowdsource this issue instead of attempting to create Facebook groups for activists to whine about how other people aren’t doing enough. If we boil the old, “leave it better than you found it,” adage to its core, we find that the minimum effort necessary to leave a place better than you found it is to simply pick up one piece of the trash whenever you visit somewhere. This, “Just One Piece,” initiative has been my personal mission for a few years. Now that I live at the gates of Rocky Mountain National Park, I find myself often coming back from the park with a cigarette butt or a cargo pocket full of pieces of foil and plastic wrappers.

The impact I’m making may be small on its own, but if we could convince the other 51% of Americans that enjoy outdoor recreation at least once per year, we could be picking up nearly 200 million pieces of trash every year while expending no money or effort beyond bending over one time per trip and putting one piece of trash in our pockets. It’s a simple solution to a complex problem. But if we can win the hearts and minds of the public to put in so little effort that it is forgettable, we can make a world of difference.

Restoring rather than protecting

In detail, it is not as straightforward and of course, it depends on the ways nature conservation happens.

Nature conservation in its traditional forms is not entirely open to tourism. This type of nature conservation aimed to restrict human access and protect nature mainly from human interactions. That, by default, is not very compatible with tourism.

But there are new fresh approaches to nature conservation such as rewilding that actually encourage interactions with humans. Thus, it allows for or even invites, tourism initiatives. It calls for restoring rather than protecting, which conserves nature in its functional forms and without conservationists having to interfere too much.

A great example is the Rhodope mountains in Bulgaria. Nature conservation efforts realized that in order for nature to be conserved and restored to its functional forms, large grazers need to be introduced to fill in the gap of healthy nutrient cycles of the landscape.

This costs a lot of money and the local rural communities that suffer from urbanization – young people leaving to cities – could not afford to support it. In fact, they didn’t even understand the reasoning.

But tourism initiatives really help to make the local communities reconnect as well as finance the investments in bison reintroduction. Bison roaming the Rhodope mountains then contribute to a healthy nutrient cycle to soils, help graze areas that would otherwise change because of overgrowing vegetation.

But most importantly, it attracts tourism to the region bringing more money and thus fuel for restoring human-nature relationships as well as help to nurture local communities.

Tourism in the Rhodopoe mountains, therefore, creates a win-win-win situation. It supports the nature conservation efforts, connects local communities with nature, and creates unique experiences for the tourists.

Give individuals opportunities to experience beauty, and adventure

As humans, we form bonds with the place when we have meaningful experiences there. Some families want to go back to a particular oceanfront or mountain retreat again and again, notably because they have come to associate that place with positive family time, fun activities, personal growth experiences, special relationships, and times of awe and beauty. When we as travel professionals or outdoor guides provide meaningful experiences in outdoor places, our guests learn, almost without thinking, to value and treasure those places. It is not a large step then to educate them about how to care for those places. Taking our trash with us when we hike, not damaging trees by carving our initials in them, not pasting big boulders with ugly spray-painted graffiti – these are not merely the rules of outdoor behavior. These are the expressions of a heart that loves a place. So rather than teaching the rules about caring for the outdoors first, let’s give individuals opportunities to experience joy, companionship, beauty, and adventure in these marvelous places. Then, with a little guidance and education, the practices and behaviors of conservation and environmental care will flow naturally. People will work and fight to protect what they love and value, and that is often true of people in wild and natural places.

As an adventure guide, I take a lot of young people into the outdoors. And I find that if I, for example, simply include a trash pickup after the hike, and give children a hands-on opportunity to beautify a place, they become fiercely protective of that place, and almost indignant when they see someone littering or defacing the area. Psychologists say that we often think our way into a way of behaving, but I would observe that we can also behave our way into a way of thinking. When we involve people in these behaviors, we are helping to shape their values, and hopefully, raising a generation that will forever value and protect wild places.

Going outdoors is a lot of fun. There’s a lot of adventure to unfold because there are so many things that we can do outdoors. There’s a lot of benefits to going outdoors, and part of that is helping in the conservation of nature.

Here are ways outdoor activities and tourist spots can help in the conservation of nature:

Increases support for conservation

Tourism and outdoor activities can help in giving more support for conservation. When we go to tourist spots and do outdoor activities, we become more curious and want to learn about the world around us. Being more curious about outdoor activities can spark some community movement for nature conversation.

Finances conservation

Tourist spots that people go to usually have fees. But they aren’t only for the maintenance of the place. They help in financing the conservation of nature. We wouldn’t be able to conserve nature more effectively if there were no funds. So, by visiting tourist spots, we’re already doing our part in the conservation of nature.

Spreads awareness

When we do outdoor activities like hiking or camping, we know more about the places we traverse. We realize that every mountain has a story. Every place we set up our tent is important. We become more aware of what we have to do for nature.

There are a lot of benefits to outdoor activities and tourist spots. As they say, it is the great outdoors. Learn to explore and you never know how much help you can give.