Beyond OutdoorFest: NYC Community Guide
Freestone Expeditions is a boutique guide service whose mission is helping New Yorkers escape the city and discover unique and authentic outdoor experiences. Our focus is on overnight backpacking trips that combine instruction in the traditions of Adirondack outdoorsmanship and Catskill fly fishing.
Girl Gotta Hike connects women with nature, confidence and camaraderie through guided hikes and backpacking trips in and around NYC. Founder, photographer and licensed guide, Melissa Goodwin, encourages busy city women to get away from the grind and connect with the ground, making connections along the way. She emphasizes safety and conservation on trail by sharing stories and lessons from her own long-distance backpacking and international trekking experiences.
Get Out And Trek hosts outdoor trips for LGBTQ adventurists and friends looking to escaping the ordinary and breaking free from the everyday. Join GOAT for a summer of adventures: https://beagoat.org.
GetOutdoorJobs - was recently kicked off by Sourced Adventures Founder Kyle Davidson. After building an outdoor adventure company in NYC, he wanted to make it easy for other people to follow their passions, and find a career in the outdoor space.
Outerthere is a community of open-minded, ready-to-go, local city kids who are all about that #adventure life, but maybe want to see someone else try it first before you do it, and if you do try it, you'd prefer trying it with friends.
Cultured Forest started with the intent to aid our clients in finding balance and well-being by promoting awe inspiring experiences in Art and Nature. We believe in creating environments and opportunities for growth.
We do this by encouraging our clients to find healing opportunities whether it be through the appreciation of a beautiful work of art, a traveling adventure or Forest Bathing. Forest Bathing involves the art of taking in the forest atmosphere through mindfulness exercises that improve productivity, creativity and health. We believe an enriched life of cultural and outdoor experiences leads to empowered individuals and communities.
The Movement Creative is NYC's most trusted name in Parkour. Learn about Parkour's Philosophy through overcoming challenges as a team. Their core philosophy is to ditch traditional gym workouts and embrace the outdoors to reclaim both your city and your body. Our classes blend movement and play with the .skills and ethos of parkour.
The Gowanus Dredgers promotes waterfront stewardship and is raising awareness of sewer overflow issues that affect our Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. Activities are conducted on the canal and shoreline, with occasional voyages to neighboring waterfront communities of Red Hook, Sunset Park and Brooklyn Heights.
Skudin Surf brings the sport of surfing to people of all ages and abilities in a fun, positive and safe environment. The company offers a range of private instruction, group lessons, camps, corporate events, and birthday parties for adults and children in the seaside town of Long Beach, Atlantic Beach, Lido-Nickerson Beach, and Rockaway Beach 67th Street. The previous nine summers were a demonstrable success; thousands of surfers traveled to us from the tri-state area to participate.
Riverkeeper began as the Hudson River Fisherman's Association and, over 50 years later, they are New York’s clean water advocate, having helped set worldwide standards for waterway and watershed protection and serving as the model for more than 300 Keeper programs around the globe.
MKC strives to provide a fun 'outside' environment in the middle of the city. We form educated paddlers so they are capable to explore the busy waterways of New York City, enjoy the sites and get away without being far away. Accessible, adventurous, fitness oriented, outdoor fun for all!
Upstate Adventure Guides LLC was founded by Will Soter & Alex Marra two friends with a shared passion for the outdoors and decades of combined experience. Both Soter & Marra are NYS DEC licensed guides. Additionally, they serve as Trails Chairs for the NY/NJ Trail Conference in the Southern Catskills, overseeing the maintenance of roughly 120 mi. of trail.
Hudson River Park Estuary Lab hosts free and low-cost environmental education programs for school groups, summer camps and the general public, using the Hudson River waterfront as its classroom.
The Cliffs Climbing + Fitness is a leading indoor rock climbing and fitness company. The Cliffs operates three facilities including New York City’s largest indoor rock climbing gym located in Long Island City as well as its original location in Valhalla, New York and a new outdoor bouldering gym in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The Cliffs prides itself on delivering a premium indoor rock climbing experience for all ages and abilities.
KEITH MICHAEL is a self-styled urban naturalist, avid birder, photographer, and a dedicated explorer of New York City's five boroughs. Watching birds drives his focus, but the breadth of NYC history, and the wealth of vistas, trees, wildflowers, grasses, mushrooms, butterflies, dragonflies, as well as scaled, slithery and furred fauna that can be observed within the city is truly remarkable. Mr. Michael has published four books of writing and photographs: Let’s Go Out!: A Birder's Year in the West Village (2015); Take Me to the River (2014); Once Around the Block (2013), and 1000 Days: World Trade Center Rising (2013);leads New York City WILD! nature walking tours, co-leads Hudson River Park WILD! walks, and is a monthly contributor to WestView News: The Voice of the West Village.
