Gay hiking

The program follows the Outward Bound model of teaching technical skills, fostering youth leadership, and self-discovery, and building community through service and outdoor adventure. Queer Scouts Seattle is hosting a seedling swap, crafternoon, and book club.

For springthe Boston Queer Scouts chapter is organizing indoor bouldering, bug identification, Arnold Arboretum Walks in Jamaica Plain, and a queer outdoor themed book club. Hiking with a group is a great way to make friends and increase your outdoor skills while doing an activity you love.

We favor popular trails over more remote ones out of concerns for our safety.

Trails for Gay Adventures : So I started looking into queer hiking groups—and even started a local chapter

Their event schedule includes ski trips, family camping trips, rafting trips, and backpacking trips. You can find your local chapter on their website. But there are some stereotypes about outdoors access that can keep people from setting out on trails.

Concern for how LGBTQ-friendly a group trip will be can keep queer folks from signing up for group outdoor adventure trips. Location: Washington, DC Mission: Adventuring LGBTQ+ is the oldest gay outdoors club operating in the DC metro area.

Recent trips have included a winter hike in the Hudson Highlands and a vigorous 10 mile hike in Harriman. LGBTQ outdoor groups are out there, helping queer folks build wilderness skills and feel comfortable in the woods. Founder Angie Isaza created the queer hiking group to build a platform and safe space for nature lovers to be authentic and share experiences with likeminded people.

The group was founded with the idea to create spaces for LGBTQIA+ people to interact outside of the city's bar scene. Any hike longer than that is clearly marked, so you can decide whether to opt in. Strap on your best outdoor walking boots and head for the great outdoors with the Gay Mens' Hiking Group.

Most group hikes are less than 3 miles long with less than feet of elevation gain. We stick with day hikes while dreaming about longer backpacking trips.

Gay hiking trips are : have smaller queer hiking groups, which you can usually find on You can find the largest gay and lesbian hiking groups listed here, but a quick search for LGBTQ+ or queer groups in your area will show you, hiking groups, near you

The rest of us struggle to see ourselves represented outdoors. Everyone is welcome at Unlikely Hikers — including queer hikers, BIPOC hikers, chronically ill and disabled hikers, hikers of every size, and those with mobility gay access needs.

Trips range in length from day hikes to multi day backcountry trips. This woodsy gang of dudes takes day trips to nearby mountains, forests and nature trails. Group hikes are paused right now. Outdoorfest will be held in the Catskills — which means you might find me there!

Today, the group organizes beginner-friendly hiking, camping, and biking trips, among other get-togethers. From pop culture notions of who gets to be a hiker to tongue-in-cheek roundups of hiker stereotypes — from outdoor magazines, stereotypical images of hikers tend to be cis white male.

These seven LGBTQ outdoor groups run outdoor adventure trips for queer people. Unlikely Hikers was founded by Jenny Bruso as an Instagram community. As ofUnlikely Hikers is hiking through a reorganization period. Trips are for adults, with separate youth trips available for ages Overnight trips include sober raft trips on the Colorado River, family camping in New England, an Allagash River canoe trip, and queer forest bathing and mushroom identification walks.

It made it more acceptable to commit to a long-distance hike. Queer Scouts Worcester has some spring walks planned on the Bicentennial Trail and Mount Wachusett, and indoor bouldering. The Venture Out Project offers wilderness trips for queer and trans folks, plus day hikes organized by volunteers.

Their Instagram community is still very engaged — you can tag unlikelyhikers, mybodytookmehere, and fatandoutdoorsy if you want to be featured, but these days the group is branching out with accessible group hikes and meetups.