Everybody deserves powerful experiences.
With buses, gear, and leadership coaching from Get Outside Bus, community leaders can run the programs their communities are asking for.
Through programs like camps, expeditions, and road trips, diverse mentors nationwide have the opportunity to move their own mission forward.
A Get Outside Bus is a shared community resource that drives local collaboration to make outdoor access more equitable.
Plan a program
Bring your people, your mission, and your goals. We bring the resources, transportation, and coaching to make it happen.
Support a bus
Your investments go further when they help organizations already serving young people add experiences to their programming.
Meet the leaders
Our logic model is rooted in partnership and collaboration. Hear the stories and the numbers our model creates.
Our Work In Action
When you empower community leaders to run programming based on their own goals, you get programs that are more welcoming, inclusive, and better attended. See for yourself:
Leader Led | Midwest
Many Chapters, Common Stories
Basecamp | Milwaukee
Camp Kindred
Residential | Oregon
College Camp
Expedition Style | Detroit
Future Foresters
Road Trip | Milwaukee
Camp + Campus
In their own words
“It is difficult to overstate how intimidating it can be to plan, coordinate, fundraise, and navigate bureaucratic hoops of taking kids on a trip. The biggest game changer in my career as a formal educator was the partnership with [Get Outside Bus].”
“Our partnership with [Get Outside Bus] made organizing and leading this dream trip into a reality. For many of our teens, it was their first time camping.”
“I am usually putting out fires, managing other people’s reactions and expectations, and walking on eggshells the whole time. There was no drama to compound it, and that is so refreshing.”
“I just find you so inspiring and enjoyable to work with.”
Gift a gift that goes farther.
As a shared resource model, Get Outside Bus runs at 30% to 50% less than comparable program. That means your gift translates into more young people getting outside for every dollar donated.
How it works
Capital
The shared resource.
A Get Outside Bus is not just transportation – it also carries equipment, food, and other critical items all in one modular system.
Coaching
The leader support.
Our team brings support, years of experience, and certifications – so leaders focus on the mission.
Collaboration
The partnership.
We never run our own programs – every initiative is a collaboration with a local community partner.
Understanding the Impact
Getting outside is powerful. It dramatically improves mental health, physical heath, academic outcomes and more.
But there’s an Adventure Gap. For too many people, access to these benefits is shaped by your zip code.
Our goal? Get more people outside.
Our approach? Provide leaders at other organizations with resources that remove barriers and increase access.
Partner Programs