Our monthly post to highlight the best writing, podcasts, and videos created by Outdoor Parents the previous month!
You won’t typically find gear reviews or travel guides here – on this site we focus on the skills and inspiration to help you get outside and stay outside with your kids. We also believe that everyone should feel welcome in the outdoors, so we share articles by parents and outdoors-people of color to make sure everyone is learning each other’s perspectives.
These links are also shared daily on our Facebook page as we find them. So if you’d like to read them slowly over the month, please follow our Facebook page.
Hopefully, this encourages you to plan your next outdoor adventures, reflect on what you were able to accomplish over the past month, or what you learned and would do differently. Enjoy!
Backpacking
- Boy Trip, Girl Trip: Why I Take Father-Son and Father-Daughter Adventures | The Big Outside
- Four Pass Loop and Hagerman Peak | We Do Stuff
- Backpacking to Crow Pass Cabin (With Kids!) | Mom in the Mts
- Tall and Lonely: Backpacking Utah’s High Uintas Wilderness | The Big Outside
- Bryce Backpacking – Riggs Spring Loop | Josh Brink (video)
Camping
- Overcoming anxiety while camping | Tales of a Mountain Mama
- Adventure, Baby! Walk-In Tenting At Canoe Meadows | Get Outside
Climbing
- Ines Papert on Climbing, Motherhood and Mt. Huntington | The Cutting Edge (podcast)
- Family Friendly Crags | Teach 5.12
Cycling
- Thru-biking with Babies: 3 Babies Complete the Great Allegheny Passage | Sarah Benis (video) from Backpacking with Babies and Kids Facebook group
- Bainbridge Island Day Trip! | Do You Need a Car on Bainbridge Island? | Wild Tales of… (video)
Diversity & Inclusion
- National Parks Are Embracing Indigenous Astronomy | Outside Online
- Why We Learn the Indigenous Names of the Outdoor Spaces We Love | Outside Online
- How the Effects of Historically Racist Laws Are Still Keeping BIPOC from the Outdoors | Outside Online
General
- Backcountry Kid Hand-me-downs | Facebook group for sharing hand-me-downs
Hiking
- 50 Hiking Games for Kids | Tales of a Mountain Mama
- Hiking with Toddlers Tips | Tales of a Mountain Mama
- Cinematic Family Beach Hike at Deception Pass Washington July 5th 2021 | HikeForMiles (video)
Paddling
- Water Safety | Outdoorsy Families (podcast)
Safety
Travel
- I Let My Kids Navigate Our Road Trip—It Was an Adventure | Outside Online
- Our Best Road Trip Ever! | Travel Babbo
- The Best Vacations for Kids: Where to Travel When | Travel Babbo
- How a family of 5 travels for $2500 a year | Ordinary Sherpa (podcast)
FYI – We have decided to stop featuring Instagram posts since we want to focus on longer trip reports and advice instead of photos. Also, we do this for fun and it was taking too long to also go through all the Instram posts out there. If you love Instagram, check out Outdoorsy.Families and funwild.mychild who both feature great posts from other Instagrammers.
