Interior Department Announces Veteran-Led Outdoor Events on November 5 and Launches a Recreation.gov Repository for Veterans
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on November 5, 2026, a slate of veteran-led outdoor recreation events on public lands and waters in the week surrounding Veterans Day, developed with partner agencies of the Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation (FICOR).
Alongside the events, Interior and its partners published a new repository on Recreation.gov, a single location where veterans, service members and military families can find information about outdoor recreation opportunities across participating federal agencies that had previously been scattered across a dozen agency websites.
In the nation's capital area of Washington, DC, the National Park Service is offering a walking tour of the war memorials around the National Mall and a guided birding walk through the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia. Just outside Denver, Colorado, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering an accessible wildlife loop walk and visitor center program at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, a former Army arsenal.
At Grandstaff Canyon in Moab, Utah, the Bureau of Land Management is hosting a veteran-led canyon hike. In California, the Bureau of Reclamation is offering a fish hatchery tour paired with a short riverside hike at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Cordova. Additional events are planned at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Pompeys Pillar National Monument in Montana, Steamtown National Historic Site in Pennsylvania and a Veterans Family Fishing Classic in Wyoming.
Interior said accessibility features served as a leading criterion for event sites, including accessible boardwalks and paved routes, indoor and visitor-center alternatives and facility tours that do not depend on weather or terrain. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and FICOR Chair Stevan Pearce commented on veterans' service and on making opportunities easier to find.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior
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Photo: 图：Washington, DC 的 Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens 水生花园。作者：bobistraveling，CC BY 2.0，维基共享资源。 / Photo: Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, DC. Credit: bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
