Western State College of Colorado

Recreation

Sources for Research

• Academy of Leisure Sciences "White Papers" on Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism - topics include benefits of leisure, leisure and health, leisure and retirement, and others.

• Economic Impacts of Recreation and Tourism

• Bibliography of Economic Impacts of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism

• Resources for Outdoor Recreation Research

• Public Use Statistics Office - includes visitation statistics by state and individual sites and links to acreage, money generation and historical data for the National Parks.

• Online Sources of Public Lands and Recreation Statistics - links to federal data sources.

• Recreation, Wilderness, Urban Forest, & Demographic Trends Research - provides "up-to-date information on public demands, perceptions, values, and benefits from outdoor recreation, wilderness, and urban forests."

Organizations

• American Hotel and Lodging Association

• National Recreation and Park Association

• National Sporting Good Association

• Resort and Commercial Recreation Association

General Information

• GORP (Great Outdoors Recreation Pages) - information on outdoor recreation including activities, places and sites, outfitters and tours, gear and more.

• Recreation.gov - information about recreation on public lands.

• Colorado Guide.com - links to a variety of activities, proposed itineraries, directions, and descriptions of trails within Colorado.

• USGS Recreation - provides links to other government web sites related to hiking, climbing, boating, fishing, hunting, and other recreational activities

• Wilderness.net - details about wilderness areas, including legislation, issues, research, and links to wilderness areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Updated November 2006
Send Comments to Jeremy Nelson, jnelson@western.edu