Summer is around the bend and the sixth annual
Great Outdoors Week in Pittsburgh this month highlights all the reasons that our city was named the most livable in the country: Thousands of people coming together to plant in urban communities, clean the waterways, kayak the rivers, pedal through neighborhoods, coming to appreciate all that is unique about Pittsburgh and the people who live here.
"Where else in this country could we take a downtown kayak break on our lunch hour? Or ride a downtown bicycle trail that that spritzes riders with water when the weather is hot?," claims Kim Adams of
Sustainable Pittsburgh, one of several sponsors for the event that kicks of May 18th.
"Great Outdoors Week is a collaboration of outdoor recreation partners
who come together each year, a grassroots marketing effort to show off the amazing number of outdoor recreation amenities, programs, events and happenings to highlight the Pittsburgh region as a cool place to live, work and play!"
Highlights during the week include: the
Venture Outdoors Festival; Tireless Friday, an opportunity to join Cleanways, Friends of the Riverfront and REI for a riversweep;
National Bike to Work Day; community garden plantings, kayak lessons; biking and walking tours of the
Grand View Scenic Byways Park and
Pedal Pittsburgh, the regions’s premier cycling event drawing over 2,000 riders to navigate through the neighborhoods and by design landmarks that make Pittsburgh unique.
Writer: Debra Diamond Smit
Source: Kim Adams, Sustainable Pittsburgh
Image courtesy of Sustainable Pittsburgh