71,565 total minutes outdoors

Get Active Outdoors

Join our 12-week activity challenge and see how many minutes you can spend outdoors.

It's more important than ever to be active outdoors.

Did you know that the CDC recommends that adults should spend 150 minutes each week being active? Their recommendation for children is 420 minutes each week, but studies show that children (and adults) spend less and less time outside. Cope Environmental Center wants to change that, and we invite you to join the challenge!

Get started by signing up! You'll get your own page that you can use for yourself to track the minutes you spend outside each week. You'll have access to our Community to share updates and photos and be inspired by everyone's outdoor adventures. Our Cope team will help you along the way, providing suggested activities, places to visit, and encouragement to keep you moving!

How It Works

🌳 Sign Up and Set a Goal

Create a profile page and set a goal for how many minutes spent outdoors you'll record in our 12-week challenge, based on CDC recommendations.

Adults = suggested goal of 1,800 minutes outdoors (2.5 hours per week)
Children = suggested goal of 2,520 minutes outdoors (3.5 hours per week)

You'll also be able to set a fundraising goal. Fundraising is optional, but any funds you do collect from supporters will help Cope ensure everyone has access to nature. 🌿

🌳 Get Active Outdoors!

Activity can look different for everyone. Whether you are gardening, playing in the yard, riding a bike, hiking Cope's trails, walking the dog, or swimming in the lake ... it all counts!

🌳 Track Your Progress

Keep track of your outside minutes to post them to your page weekly. When you post an update, you can add a message about what you did, upload a photo or video, link to a Strava or fitness app activity, or more. You can browse the Community section to see what other participants are doing and get inspired!

🌳 Get Guidance Along the Way

Our team at Cope Environmental Center cares about getting everyone active outdoors! We'll share tips along the way, including suggested places to visit, upcoming events of interest, and more. We'll also help celebrate our participants' successes by providing weekly incentives and fun prize drawings! 🏆Overall prize will also be given out at the end of the challenge!