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Our Mission
Our mission is to help strengthen families and support individuals impacted by addiction and mental health challenges by creating opportunities to connect through outdoor experiences. We do this by hosting free and low-cost community activities each month for individuals seeking to improve their mental health through time outdoors, as well as by providing private outdoor recreation activities for addiction, mental health, and autism treatment centers. In addition, we offer activities for community groups, businesses, mental health providers, and other organizations looking to promote well-being through outdoor engagement. Learn more about our community activities below, or click “See Activities” to sign up and receive free tickets to our next event.
What is a Community Activity?
Community activities are activities hosted by Utah Outdoor Therapies are free hikes that are open to the community every month! Research has demonstrated that time spent outdoors engaging in physical activity improves mental and physical health. Regular exercise can improve mood, strengthen bodies, reduce feelings of depression, anxiety and stress. Especially when outdoors physical activity has been proven to be an effective coping mechanism for life challenges. Sadly, many barriers exist that prevent people from spending time outdoors. Barriers of cost, limited access to gear, lack of education regarding activities, lack of awareness of communities that spend time outdoors, time restraints and travel can make it extremely difficult for individuals to spend time outdoors. Utah Outdoor Therapies strives to remove these barriers by providing monthly free monthly activities and other low-cost activities. We provide all the planning, equipment, staff, training and friends needed to have a healing experience outdoors. Learn more about us below or click "See Activities" to sign up and get a free spot at our next community activity.
Who Can Sign UP
All ages are welcome to sign up. We do ask that if an individual wants to attend and they are under the age of 18 that a parent or guardian attend with them. Groups and teams are welcome to sign up. No diagnosis is required to attend any activity, all are welcome. Please do not take all the free slots that are available for several activities. If there are no tickets available for a particular activity and you would really like to attend please send us a message and we will try to make space for you in the group. You can also sign up for our newsletter and we will email you when registration for our next activity opens. If all free tickets are taken tickets you can always check out upcoming activities or check out our low cost activities.
What Activities DO You Offer?
We strive to offer unique activities every year and also continually host everyone's favorite activities throughout the year. We offer activities like rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, boxing, yoga, snowshoeing and more! During the winter months we do some outdoor activities, but move primarily to indoor and adventure based activities. We primarily host activities that are in the Salt Lake Valley in close and accessible areas. We do a lot of activities on the Jordan River Parkway, Red Rock Canyon in Draper and at indoor facilities like Momentum Climbing, Rumble Boxing, Salt Lake Bouldering Project and The Front Climbing. Free activities can be posted each month at any time typically the majority of our free activities are hiking and other activities will be in the low cost activities section. However on occasion we may host a free snowshoeing, biking or yoga activity and if we do we will post that on the community activities page.
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