Discover Your Path
The Outdoor Retailer floor plan aligns specific needs and interests to maximize your time on site. Technical meets lifestyle, connected by spaces to gather and learn. Activity-focused zones bring retailers, brands, designers, and media with shared interests together to see how emerging trends are evolving and get business done. The layout creates an ideal environment for building impactful relationships and closing deals efficiently, making it easier for both buyers and sellers to meet goals, and for designers and media to discover the latest innovations and be inspired.
To enhance the experience, experts and industry leaders from around the world share the latest trends and strategies for navigating a transformed marketplace in immersive education sessions. And networking events spark connections while providing chances to expand your community and celebrate the industry.
In the outdoors or in the business of the outdoors, discovery is everything. The Outdoor Retailer floor plan helps you discover more of what you’re looking for. Designed to encourage exploration and improve the shopping experience, the new intuitive show floor is organized by activity:
Show Areas
Camp + Hike — learn more
Climb — learn more
Run + Cycle — learn more
Water (summer only) — learn more
Lifestyle — learn more
Overland + Travel — learn more
Retail Services — learn more
Snow (winter only) — learn more
Stewardship — learn more
Outdoor Design + Innovation
Sourcing at Outdoor Retailer becomes the new co-located Outdoor Design + Innovation show. Outdoor Design + Innovation is the source of tomorrow’s gear. Suppliers of raw materials, along with businesses delivering the latest technologies in manufacturing and sustainability, showcase innovations for product developers. Designers and R&D teams discover the latest materials, trends, and solutions to transform ideas into functional goods. Find the ingredients and inspiration to take your products to market and make an impact.
The Hub
Through engaging fireside chats, expert-led panels, actionable workshops, this community corner at Outdoor Retailer connects organizations, brands, retailers, elected officials, and athletes, promoting inclusion in the outdoors and inspiring cooperation and community to effect change locally and globally.
The Camp
Which trends will drive retail forward? And who’s creating the experiences that get more people into their stores and the outdoors themselves? What are the issues facing specialty retail and how can they be solved? You’ll find answers to all these and more at The Camp, our education area on the show floor.
Tent Zone
The Tent Zone at Summer allows retailers and attendees to test and compare tents, hammocks, and camping gear on site.
Keynote Education
With top educators, innovators, and retailers from around the world delivering trend updates and a pulse on the industry, the keynote sessions and mid-day seminars give you and your staff an extra edge in today’s highly competitive marketplace and give insight on the topics that matter most to our community. These educational opportunities include the Industry Breakfast, Industry Lunches, and other key panel discussions.
The Workroom
Workspace options are available to connect and catch up on emails near the show floor. Find table top seating and WiFi in The Workroom to help you get some work done between appointments.
Food & Drink
Find food trucks on the show floor in addition to concession stands on the floor and around in the convention center. Learn more.