The Community ft. Justin Yoder of LGBT Outdoors: Muir Woods National Monument

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Today we trek into Muir Woods National Monument to explore the decaying community of Druid Heights, once a thriving hub for artists, philosophers and those who felt they couldn’t find acceptance in the world. We look back on what it once was and discuss the controversy surrounding its current preservation, or lack of. But we aren’t alone! We are joined by Justin Yoder, founder of LGBT Outdoors. After our tour of Druid Heights, Justin tells us more about his organization, what inspired him to create a space where the LGBTQ+ community could connect with the outdoors and one another and all of their fun events that are taking place around the country. Love and compassion should extend beyond care and concern for wild spaces - it should be granted to everyone we share it with. Happy Pride Month! You can find more information on and get involved with LGBTQ Outdoors through their website or instagram. If you would like to make a donation, please visit lgbtoutdoors.com/donate. If you'd like to attend LGBT Outdoorfest, use code NPAD at sign up for a discount.For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Gametime: Download Gametime and use code NPAD for $20 of your first purchase.Miracle Made: Use our link and code NPAD to save over 40% and get 3 free towels.For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, hello everyone. Welcome back to National Park after dark. We have a really fun and exciting
0:24.2	episode today because happy Pride Month. Yeah, we're doing something a little different and we're
0:29.6	doing it in honor of Pride Month and to show some love to our LGBTQ community that we have and love
0:36.5	that are part of the National Park after dark podcast. We see you, we love you and we wanted to
0:41.6	dedicate this episode to LGBTQ communities. Yeah, and we had this kind of in the workspour a while,
0:49.3	but finally now's the time and we just got off of the call with Justin who is our guest today
0:56.8	and it was such an awesome conversation and it's not just an interview like we've done in the past
1:02.6	with some of our guests. We shared a story like we usually do. We just invited him along for the ride.
1:08.8	Yeah, we did and we have this really cool story and John Meer Woods National Monument and Justin
1:14.7	joined us. So today we have guest Justin Yoder who is the founder of LGBT outdoors. He also has a
1:22.5	podcast which is called LGBT outdoors podcast where he has created a community where he advocates
1:29.3	for inclusive outdoor activities for LGBT communities and making a more diverse and accepting space
1:35.4	in the outdoors. So this is a really cool cool episode. We get to talk to him. We get to share
1:39.9	stories with him. We laugh joke, have a good time and we're here for all of you to laugh and
1:45.1	join us and have a great time. Yeah, it was a really like lighthearted like upbeat episode for
1:50.5	such a serious topic and of course there's a time and place for that as well, but not just boil
1:56.4	anything. I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm just like want to tell everyone about it. It's like
2:00.0	chill like we'll listen. We're recording this obviously after we just had our whole conversation
2:05.1	and this is going to be a longer episode as I'm sure you all can see when you press the play button
2:09.6	on here, but Danielle tells a really interesting story that you've probably haven't heard of before
2:15.1	and then we're going to take a really deep dive into Justin's foundation and he has some really
2:22.6	cool events going on. So stick around, hang out with us even though it's long every part of this
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