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National Outdoors just finished building a price comparison engine to help you find the best prices on outdoor gear. Simply search for a product, and we'll search over 22 online retailers and provide you with a list of items that match your search and show the price at each store.

Outdoor Gear Price Comparison Tool

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We're on our way to the Salt Place on the UTA Trax train ready to report on new products in the outdoor industry. We'll be updating the site throughout the day with our reporting, and press releases. Stay Tuned!

National Outdoors created an initiative called Urban Outdoors. We're covering Outdoor Recreation Areas in, and around, major metropolitan areas. The idea is to promote awareness of outdoor areas in close proximity to a major population centers. Most of us live, work and play in big cities, and we play outside. The park you jog in, the trail you bike on or the stream you kayak on is not as famous as Yellowstone, but it's the place you enjoy the outdoors... the Urban Outdoors.

The US Forest Service and the American Recreation Coalition are teaming up to create a nation-wide effort to get Americans outdoors. They have declared Saturday June 14th 2008 National Get Outdoors Day. The goal of the day is to connect children and "First Timers" to the outdoors and show them the benefits of outdoor recreation and activities. Many Americans are unaware of vast and scenic pubic lands around them. National Get Outdoors Day invites everyone to check out America's Great Outdoors - our parks, our forests, our refuges and other public lands and waters.

After months and months of research and data entry, we've finally cataloged each National Park, Ski Resort and Outdoor Recreation Areas (the major ones) by state for all 50 states. Now we need your help to provide useful information about trails, camping spots, ski runs, fishing holes, mountain bike rides, whitewater, beaches, lakes, and on and on. You get the point. This is a huge task, but there's a way that can benefit everyone who supplies information.