Outdoor Industry  March 1, 2022

Colorado seeks to retain Outdoor Retailer show

For nearly five years, Colorado has hosted the outdoor industry’s premier trade show.

But with rising costs and nagging COVID-19 concerns, the organizers of the $45-million Outdoor Retailer show are considering a move back to their previous homebase of Salt Lake City, Utah.

New York-based events company Emerald Expositions LLC opted in 2017 to bring the show to Denver in part due to Utah policy-makers’ decision to weaken protections for the Bears Ears National Monument.

“Our industry places a great deal of value — in fact, it’s a business input — on public lands protections,” said Lise Aangeenbrug, executive director of the…

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A Maryland native, Lucas has worked at news agencies from Wyoming to South Carolina before putting roots down in Colorado.
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