The bipartisan Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act is the largest outdoor recreation package since 1963. It tackles today's challenges by improving park infrastructure, supporting gateway communities, offsetting pressures on popular destinations, and increasing access to the outdoors for veterans, seniors, and youth. There's a lot to love in this bill, thanks in no small part to the outdoor lovers and organizations who helped shape it, and real-world feedback from National Park Service staff and other land managers who identified needed improvements to our public lands. We are especially excited that it will:

- permanently fund local parks in underserved communities;
- support veterans, seniors, and youth in accessing our public lands;
- improve mountain biking on select public lands and identify new locations for long-distance bike trails; and
- address overcrowding in popular parks.