From A to Z: Potential Enterprises for Agricultural and Nature Tourism -
From A to Z: Potential Enterprises for Agricultural and Nature Tourism
Here is a listing of potential activities to get you thinking about how your current operation and assets may be augmented with a recreational enterprise. The options are limited only by your imagination and, in some instance, regulations. Other fact sheets in this series will help you assess factors that will help you decide what will work for you, including liability issues, financing, marketing, etc.
- Agriculture Food & Craft Shows
- Animal Feeding
- Archery Range
- Arrowhead Hunting / Rock Collecting
- Barn Dances (Square Dancing, etc.)
- Bed & Breakfast (Rural & Historical)
- Bird Watching & Wildlife Viewing
- Boating & Canoeing
- Camping / Picnicking
- Children's Camp (Summer or Winter)
- Corporate picnics
- Cross-country Skiing
- Educational or Technical Tours
- Elder Hostel
- Family Reunions
- Farm or Ranch Work Experience (roundup, haying, fencing, calving, cutting wood etc.)
- Fee-Fishing (Ice Fishing in Winter)
- Fee-Hunting
- Floral Arrangements
- Flower Shows or Festivals
- Fly Fishing and Tying Clinics
- Food Festivals
- Gardens (flowers, greenery, herbs, dried flowers)
- Guided Crop Tours
- Guiding and Outfitting
- Habitat Improvement Projects
- Harvest Festivals
- Hay Rides / Sleigh Rides
- Hiking / Cave Exploring
- Historical Museums and Displays (Ag History, Machinery, etc.)
- Horseback Riding
- Hunting Dog Training & Competition
- Off-Road Motorcycling, ATV, Mountain Biking
- Pack Trips
- Petting Zoo
- Photography / Painting
- Ranch Skills (horseshoeing, leatherwork, camp cooking, horse training, etc.)
- Roadside Stands & Markets
- Rock Climbing
- Rodeo
- School & Educational Tours and Activities
- Self-Guided Driving Tours
- Snowmobiling
- Swimming
- Tee Pee Building
- Trap & Skeet Shooting
- Tubing & Rafting
- U-Pick Operations
- Wagon Trains
- Wilderness Experiences