Harness Nature's Power: Health Benefits of National Parks and Recreation Month "I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put together." John BurroughsPeople have been celebrating Park and Recreation Month in the United States since 1985 to promote building resilient, strong, and vibrant communities through the strength of parks and recreation while recognizing their full-time parks and recreation professionals of more than 160,000 men and women, along with their seasonal employees and hundreds of thousands