TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A typical New Year’s resolution usually includes losing weight and getting more exercise. In fact, a plan to people enjoying the outdoors on New Year’s Day has become a nationwide movement after a hike at a Massachusetts park more thirty years ago.

Just 380 people participated in the initial First Day Hike in 1992 at the nearly 7,000-acre Blue Hills Reservation just south of Boston. On Sunday, tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in First Day Hikes at hundreds of parks in all 50 states, including Michigan.

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Here in the Great Lakes State, the Department of Natural Resources is encouraging folks to kick off the new year with a hike as well. Last year, the program saw nearly 55,000 people nationwide collectively hiking more than 133,000 miles on New Year’s Day.

Did you get your New Year started off on the right foot?