Engineering students at the University of Colorado Denver soon will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience testing outdoors gear with precision machinery in a newly created "innovation laboratory" through a partnership with Outside Interactive Inc., a Boulder-based outdoors media company that is home to more than 30 online platforms including Outside magazine.
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and fellow Democrats have introduced legislation that would invest $50 million annually in outdoor recreation infrastructure, planning and business development. Federal data show that outdoor recreation accounted for 1.9% of the nation's dollar gross domestic product. and $862 in economic output in 2021.
On Tuesday evening, a group of Eagle County’s outdoor recreation industry professionals gathered at the Gravity Haus in Vail to have a discussion with Luis Benitez about how to harness the collective power of the.