TIME
What is America’s favorite outdoor sport? The answer, from a report to the President and Congress just released by the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission: taking a drive in the car. Second favorite sport: walking. Least popular of 24 activities surveyed: skiing.
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> The higher the income and the more education, the greater the extent of outdoor activity.
> Professional people spend the most time in outdoor recreation; farm workers the least.
> Summer activity in the South is about a quarter less than in the rest of the U.S. —understandably.
> About 90% of all Americans engage in some kind of outdoor recreation in the course of the year.
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