About r/Outdoors
In its own words:
Outdoor recreation: keeping humans fit, fed and happy for thousands of years! The sun on your face, the wind in your hair: all this and more could be yours to experience... if you ever get off reddit and go outside for once! Outdoors is for all outdoor experiences, not limited to any specific interest. Caving, mountain climbing, cycling, bushcraft, gardening, sailing, plants, birds, bears, trees, going for a stroll - it's all on topic here!
Community guide
r/Outdoors (#171, about 5.1 million) covers outdoor recreation and nature time. Outdoor recreation: keeping humans fit, fed and happy for thousands of years! The sun on your face, the wind in your hair: all this and more could be yours to experience... if you ever get off reddit and go outside for once! Outdoors is for all outdoor experie Rules: Uncivil / Harassment; Spam; Personal information (e.g. dox); English only; Off-topic; Morbid Content; No bug bites Sample ~19 ppd.
Fit
Outdoors content under the collected rule list (civility, OC/promo limits as stated on-sub).
Versus camping / hiking / CampingandHiking
Those narrow to tent camping, day hiking, or backpacking-with-camping. Outdoors is the broader recreation umbrella when posts are not gear-trail specific.
Practical pointers
Follow live rules for location tags, OC, and spam; stats are SubMouse snapshots.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 20, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 243 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/Shoestring (#170) and ahead of r/streetwear (#172) in our ranking.
What sets r/Outdoors apart
r/Outdoors is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 47% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 17% across the Top 100. People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 4.1 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (11:00 UTC) sees about 10.0× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Outdoors climbed from 5,142,670 to 5,144,060 subscribers (+1.4K, +0.03%). That is about 32 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Outdoors talks about
Looking at the titles of 125 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “fall”, “lake”, “park”, “sunrise” and “wyoming”. Other frequent themes are near, usa, mountains, state, county and arkansas. Recurring phrases include “state park”, “county wyoming”, “happy halloween” and “county arkansas”. By format, 47% are images, 33% are galleries and 16% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Landscapes (65), Travel (22), Flora & Fauna (16), Recreation (13), Discussion (7), Home & Garden (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/Outdoors gets about 19 new posts a day. The public archive holds 158,929 posts and 651,707 comments in total, about 4.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (23 posts) and the quietest was Monday (14). Posting peaks around 11:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Outdoors
The moderators of r/Outdoors list 7 rules. In short:
- Uncivil / Harassment
- Spam
- Personal information (e.g. dox)
- English only
- Off-topic
- Morbid Content
- No bug bites
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Outdoors and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/Outdoors?
r/Outdoors has 5,144,060 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #171 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,390 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/Outdoors?
r/Outdoors was created on Jun 20, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
How active is r/Outdoors?
Moderately: r/Outdoors gets about 19 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 158,929 posts and 651,707 comments. In a sample of 125 recent posts we counted 86 different authors.
When is r/Outdoors most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Monday, and most posts arrive around 11:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Outdoors about?
The community describes itself as: “Outdoor recreation: keeping humans fit, fed and happy for thousands of years! The sun on your face, the wind in your hair: all this and more could be yours to experience... if you ever get off reddit and go outside for …” Recent post titles often mention fall, lake, park, sunrise and wyoming. Most posts are images (47%).
Is r/Outdoors safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Outdoors as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Outdoors?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Outdoors accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Uncivil / Harassment”; “Spam”; “Personal information (e.g. dox)”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Outdoors?
Communities with similar topics include r/Hair (4.5M), r/oddlyspecific (3.8M), r/Nails (4.2M), r/nottheonion (26.1M) and r/Whatcouldgowrong (8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Outdoors.