Introduction to Recreation Outreach

Recreation Outreach can be used to increase participation in outdoor activities and understand recreation license trends.

For decades, there has been a decline in the number of people who are interested in outdoor recreation, prompting the need to understand recreation license trends more deeply and maximize the use of recreation resources. Understanding who has purchased recreation licenses or permits helps organizations target marketing activities and increase retention rates. Providing 24/7 access to recreation opportunities allows you to reach new outdoor license and permit buyers and increase the use of outdoor resources in your community.

The Recreation Outreach solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you understand recreation license trends, engage the public about their recreation experiences, and promote recreation opportunities to the public.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Recreation Outreach requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 2.6 or later (Basic, Standard, Advanced)
• ArcGIS Survey123

Information products

Recreation Outreach includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Outdoor Recreation	An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to discover outdoor recreation opportunities	Not required
Angler Catch Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by anglers to provide feedback related to their fishing experience	Not required
Boating Experience Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by boaters to provide feedback related to their boating experience	Not required
Hunting Harvest Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by hunters to provide feedback related to their hunting experience	Not required
Trail Experience Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by trail users to provide feedback related to their trail experience	Not required
Recreation License Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by Fish and Wildlife Coordinators to determine which communities to target for Reactivation, Retention, and Recruitment (R3) campaigns	Viewer
Recreation License Management	An ArcGIS Pro project package used to manage and analyze license data	GIS Professional Basic
Park Locator	A Nearby app used by the general public to locate a park or recreation facility and obtain information about recreation activities in the area	Not required
Recreation License Locator	A Nearby app used by anglers, boaters, and hunters to locate license or permit retailers and obtain information about rules and regulations	Not required
Water Resource Locator	A Nearby app used by anglers and boaters to locate water access sites and obtain information about amenities at the access site	Not required
Wildlife Resource Locator	A Nearby app used by the general public to locate wildlife conservation or recreation areas and obtain information about area amenities	Not required
Trail Locator	A Nearby app used by the general public to locate a trail and obtain information about trail activities in the region	Not required
Recreation Information Manager	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by operations staff to create and update recreation information shared with the public	Editor

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
3.0 (Jun 2023)	A new Recreation Information Manager app to help create and update recreation information shared with the public. A new ParksGroundsAssets feature layer to help share recreation information with the public. A new Closures feature layer to help share closure information with the public. Removed the Recreation Inventory app. Removed the Recreation Closure Manager app.
2.0 (Nov 2021)	New recreation locator apps using the Nearby Instant app for a better mobile experience. A new Recreation Inventory app for park and trail data management. A new Trails page on the Outdoor Recreation site that can be used to share trail information. A new Trail Experience Survey to collect trail use information.
1.2 (Feb 2021)	A new version of the Recreation License Management ArcGIS Pro project that resolves an issue with the Standardize Licenses tool to work with domains.
1.1 (Nov 2020)	Updated the Recreation License Management ArcGIS Pro project to reference correct layers.
1.0 (Aug 2020)	First release of Recreation Outreach