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Get ready for BC Trails Day: Funding available
BC Trails Day (June 6) brings communities together to celebrate and care for trails. Register your event, access $300 micro-grants, and join us in promoting stewardship, connection, and responsible outdoor recreation across British Columbia.
Canada’s nature protection strategy and outdoor recreation in BC
Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy will shape how outdoor recreation is managed in BC, linking access to stewardship, biodiversity, and partnerships, with increasing expectations on recreation groups to support conservation outcomes across all landscapes.
Access is a relationship: Working with private landowners in BC
Working with private landowners is essential for trail access in BC. This blog outlines key steps to build trust, secure agreements, manage risk, and maintain long-term access.
New partnership to strengthen outdoor recreation in B.C.
ORCBC and College of the Rockies signed an MOU to support workforce development, applied learning, and collaboration across B.C.’s outdoor recreation sector, aligning training with community and industry needs.
ORCBC 2026 Annual General Meeting - call for nominations and resolutions
The Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia’s 2026 Annual General Meeting will be held at TRU in Kamloops on May 22 at 5 pm. We are seeking nominations for our board and resolutions.
Outdoor recreation and B.C.’s Look West: Tourism Sector Action Plan
The Province’s new tourism strategy creates opportunities to strengthen B.C.’s visitor economy. ORCBC highlights how outdoor recreation supports rural communities, local economies, and stewardship across the province.
What Budget 2026 means for outdoor recreation in British Columbia
Budget 2026 continues recreation investment but raises concerns about staffing and system capacity. Outdoor recreation supports B.C.’s economy, communities, and landscapes, and requires stable funding, workforce support, and partnerships.
Funding for B.C.'s parks and outdoor recreation shouldn't be considered discretionary spending
In this blog, we argue that BC should treat parks and outdoor recreation as core public infrastructure, not discretionary spending. Stable, long-term funding supports health, rural economies, tourism, and community resilience, while cuts create higher future costs and missed opportunities.
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.