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Get Outside and Celebrate BC Trails Day on June 7
Get outside and celebrate BC Trails Day on Saturday, June 7, 2025! With local events across BC, it’s a great chance to explore, volunteer, and enjoy the outdoors.
Why recreation planning works
Clear recreation planning turned Koocanusa from chaos into a stewardship success. Through collaboration, trail management, and positive community engagement, the Elk Valley Adventure & Dirt Riders Society proved that responsible recreation is possible.
Notice of annual general meeting for ORCBC
Notice of annual general meeting for the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia’s members has been served.
Strengthening BC’s outdoors: ORCBC announces 2025 grant recipients
The Outdoor Recreation Council of BC (ORCBC) is pleased to announce the grant recipients of the second intake of the Outdoor Recreation Fund of BC.
As tourism surges, can BC’s outdoor recreation system keep up?
B.C.’s tourism boom highlights urgent needs: more trails, better funding, and support for the volunteers sustaining outdoor recreation.
Join our team: Communications officer (youth position)
We are looking for a new team member with a passion for the outdoors to support and grow our outreach, fundraising, and annual initiatives, such as BC Trails Day.
Save the date: BC outdoor recreation conference 2026
The Outdoor Recreation Council of BC is celebrating 50 years in 2026, and we’re marking the occasion in a big way! Join us at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, May 20-22, 2026 for this milestone event.
Why a BC staycation might be your best adventure yet
With the ongoing international uncertainty and shifting travel trends, more people are choosing to stay closer to home. In a province like BC, that choice still offers endless possibilities.
ORCBC Story Series
This new series focuses on the many benefits – some well known, many less so – that outdoor recreation brings to people, communities and the province. .
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From access to nature to apps and AI, the evolution of trail construction to electric power, this story series looks at how recreation will change and evolve over the short and long term.
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In this story series, we feature recreation organizations that are advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples through trail and outdoor recreation projects.
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This story series explores the connection between climate change and recreation. Through conversations with scientists, advocates, land managers, recreationists, and more, we look at how a warming world and more extreme weather is impacting the activities we love. But more than glum news, we’re interested in how the recreation industry is already hard at work preparing for change, reducing the impacts, and actively trying to slow global warming.
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In a time when trails, roads, campgrounds, rivers and lakes are busier than ever, it’s important to remember that it takes a community to make fun possible. This story series profiles the people who work behind the scenes in B.C., so you can have that special moment today.