Outdoor Adventures Offered Freedom and Solace to Girls Throughout History

Harriet Tubman utilized her knowledge of the outdoors to escape slavery and help others flee to freedom.
Louisa May Alcott broke conventions by finding liberation in outdoor pursuits instead of more traditional "feminine" activities.
Native American girls at boarding schools created community through outdoor sports like basketball when disconnected from their families.
These stories challenge the notion that the outdoors was solely a male domain, showing how girls expressed their identities freely in nature.
For these women and girls, the natural world represented opportunity, independence, and emotional outlet unavailable to them otherwise.