Sustainable Recreation, Tourism, and Equitable Outdoor Access Directed Grant Program (2025-2027)
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Return to Search Sustainable Recreation, Tourism, and Equitable Outdoor Access Directed Grant Program (2025-2027) Grantor: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Portal ID: 129150 Status: Closed Opportunity Type: Grant Last Updated: December 30, 2025, 11:25 am | View change notes Categories: Disadvantaged Communities Disaster Prevention & Relief Environment & Water Parks & Recreation Details Purpose: This Grant Program aims to support innovative efforts to enhance, promote, and develop sustainable recreation and tourism opportunities and increase access for all to public lands in the Sierra-Cascade region. Program goals include improving access to nature and outdoor recreation opportunities, reducing impacts of overuse on natural and cultural resources, and supporting the development of sustainable recreation economies. Description: Proposition 68 recognizes the critical importance of recreation and tourism to California’s economy and ecology and specifically directs funds to be used to support and expand recreation economies, opportunities, and access to outdoor recreation. Projects must fall within one of the following three focus areas to be considered for funding: 1. Build Climate Resilience: Support the planning, development, and maintenance of recreation and outdoor infrastructure that anticipates or adapts to increased use and pressure from climate change and visitors escaping extreme weather. Projects must clearly have multiple benefits, such as tourism as well as education, recreation infrastructure with water-quality benefits, or recreation with habitat protection. 2. Improve/Increase Access for All: Improve and/or increase access to nature, including for communities that have not traditionally had equitable access through grants which result in either the implementation or identification, prioritization, and preparation for capital improvement projects. Projects must clearly have multiple benefits, such as tourism as well as education, recreation infrastructure with w
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