As a consequence of personal experiences in the outdoors, in wilderness and in urban landscapes, as a lesbian, as a white woman whose partner of the past fifteen years is of mixed descent (African, Blackfoot/Siksika, and Irish), as the co-parent of an African American male, I have been struggling to articulate through narrative the peculiar and systematic ways in which safe access to the outdoors, which I define as any space outside of locked doors in domestic shelters, is curtailed in our white supremacist, male-dominated, heterosexist society. What follows is a series of personal and cultural narratives exploring this theme. My interest is to stimulate discussion of how the outdoors remains gendered as male space, racialized as white space, and sexualized as heterosexual space, from the simple everyday suburban family chores of dad and brother cutting the grass versus mom and sister washing the dishes to outdoor adventures such as hiking on wilderness trails. The "woman=nature" equation established under patriarchy and championed by some ecofeminists in no way reflects actual opportunities for girls and women to enjoy safe access to the outdoors. The outdoors tenaciously remains propertied white male territory; public space is fiercely controlled by heterosexist domination; land is divided up according to racist practices that grant white people the greatest access to the most land. How does the interplay of oppressions shape perception of, participation in, and relationship to the outdoors? These personal narratives and historical, cultural perspectives are written in an effort to break the silence around the role of social domination in determining connection to the outdoors.