Wisconsin Healthy Communities Summit

Join us, and learn from world-changing thinkers and innovators in the outdoor recreation world about how we build and maintain healthy communities. Our two-day summit promises interactive sessions, networking opportunities, and experiential field trips that will leave you inspired, connected, and equipped to take action in your community.

With a growing understanding of outdoor recreation’s wealth of benefits, communities are rethinking how trails, green spaces and infrastructure contribute to vibrant, resilient places. At the Healthy Communities Summit, you can connect with peers, learn from national experts, and explore real-world solutions for building healthy, thriving communities. In just two days, you’ll be able to:

Attend breakout sessions that will cover topics from designing infrastructure around community needs to building equity in the outdoors, exploring the outdoors as a form of medicine, leveraging trails and outdoor amenities to attract tourism and talent and providing solutions for rural healthcare.

Ground yourself in the research of how nature makes us healthier from award-winning journalist and author of The Nature Fix, Florence Williams, and get the roadmap to advocacy that prioritizes people over cars from Carter Lavin, strategist and author of If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight.