About us
Get outside and meet people!
Sierra Club's mission to "explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth." Advocacy and public education are core purposes of our outings.
Outings are open to Sierra Club members and non-members alike. The Sierra Club does not charge a fee to participate in local outings. All are welcome - your income, religion, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or age do not matter. However, some of our outings are geared towards adults while others are more family-friendly and child-oriented.
Our volunteer outings leaders will, at a minimum, have basic first aid training and go through a mentoring process with veteran outings leaders before becoming outings leaders themselves.
Trips posted on this group are Sierra Club outings - all participants must sign a Sierra Club Liability Waiver online ahead (or in-person at the start). If you have any question about the difficulty of the outing and whether you have the appropriate fitness, and/or equipment to participate, contact the outing leader before the day of the outing. During the outing, expect to remain with the outings leader during the entire outing, unless there is a co-leader (this is for safety and liability reasons). If you plan on bringing a dog, please ask the outing leader of the trip for permission and special instructions before the day of the outing.
Learn more about Sierra Club Massachusetts here:
https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts
If you are interested in becoming an outings leader for the Massachusetts Chapter, contact celeste.venolia@sierraclub.org
Upcoming events
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Boston Harborwalk Outing for Transit Equity Day
Carson Beach, 165 HarborWalk, Boston, MA, USPlease RSVP here: https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001S29pnIAB&mapLinkHref=https://maps.google.com/maps&daddr=Boston%20Harborwalk%20Outing%20for%20Transit%20Equity%20Day@42.326097,-71.047984
Join us on February 7th at 1pm for an approximately 4 mile out and back walk (no elevation gain/loss) along the beautiful Boston Harbor in belated celebration of Transit Equity Day! We will meet at near JFK UMass (exact location emailed to those who register) and walk along the Harborwalk along Carson beach, L Street Beach, M Street Beach, and out to Pleasure Bay Beach. Along the way we will get to know each other and discuss transit equity and our experiences with transit in Massachusetts.
Getting there: We highly recommend taking the Red Line or other public transit to get to this walk! We will send out an optional carpooling sheet for those who register in case anyone is joining us from outside of the range of public transit connections.
Transit Equity Day is February 4th, 2026; it is an annual day organized by Labor Network for Sustainability on Rosa Park's birthday. Read more about Transit Equity Day here.
Level: Easy
Cancellation Policy: Steady rain cancels
We are trialing posting this trip with MeetUp internal registration closed because it has been challenging for leaders to manage registrations through multiple platforms. Our primary registration platform is linked and the top and also here. If the system has a date/time to register by, please ignore that.1 attendee
Outings Leader Training: Boston, MA
Location not specified yetPlease RSVP here: https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001S1k1oIAB&mapLinkHref=https://maps.google.com/maps&daddr=Outings%20Leader%20Training:%20Boston,%20MA@42.355866,-71.056387
Do you like spending time with people outside? Ready to take the leap towards building leadership and coordination skills? Come take outings leader training in person in Boston this winter! There is also a MA Volunteer & Outings Info Session on February 11th if you'd like to learn more and get questions answered about outings leadings in real time.
Outings Leader Training (OLT) is designed to provide participants with the knowledge required to lead day trips and/or overnight car-camping trips for the Sierra Club. The goal is to create trip leaders who lead safe and fun trips while inspiring their participants to become more involved in protecting their environment.
The OLT training is comprised of 8 modules covering the following topics:
- Commitments to Equity Goals
- History and Structure
- Planning Outings
- Participant Evaluation
- Conservation and Connections
- Conducting an Outing
- Ethical Leadership and Decision Making
- Risk Management
The Basic First Aid Certification is through Health Safety Institute (HSI); this course takes approximately 3 hours.
The training does not cover “hard” skills like how to set up a tent or specifics on gear for a particular outdoor activity. The OLT will orient you to policies and procedures, best practices, our existing structure, and skills related to leading a group in an outdoor setting. There is a lot of content to cover so there are some pre-readings and pre-watching materials so that we can fit first aid and OLT requirements into the same day. We will break up spending time on covering and discussing content inside with time getting outside along the Rose Kennedy Greenway to demonstrate some of the principles covered in the training.
Read more about the leader requirements here: https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts/become-leader
Please email Celeste with any questions: celeste.venolia@sierraclub.org
We are trialing posting this trip with MeetUp internal registration closed because it has been challenging for leaders to manage registrations through multiple platforms. Our primary registration platform is linked and the top and also here. If the system has a date/time to register by, please ignore that.1 attendee
Past events
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