From the U.S. Postal Service announcement on October 22, 2019:
With the release of the Enjoy the Great Outdoors Forever stamps, the Postal Service celebrates the many ways individuals experience America’s abundance of natural beauty. These hand-sketched and painted designs depict five different scenes of outdoor activities — building a sand castle, hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing and biking. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps with original art by Gregory Manchess.
Here are the Scott catalogue numbers for this issue:
5475 (55¢) Enjoy the Great Outdoors – Child building sandcastle
5476 (55¢) Enjoy the Great Outdoors – Canoeing
5477 (55¢) Enjoy the Great Outdoors – Hiking
5478 (55¢) Enjoy the Great Outdoors – Bicycling
5479 (55¢) Enjoy the Great Outdoors – Cross-country skiing
a. Vert. strip of 5, #5475-5479
Additional information will be posted below the line, with the most recent at the top.
Updated June 12th:
The USPS says there will be a virtual first-day ceremony for this issue:
[press release]
U.S. Postal Service Announces Virtual Dedication Ceremony for Enjoy the Great Outdoors Stamps
What: The Postal Service celebrates the many ways we appreciate the natural world with a virtual event on Facebook and Twitter to introduce the Enjoy the Great Outdoors stamps. These Forever stamps will be released June 13 in panes of 20.
News of the stamps is being shared with the hashtag#GreatOutdoorsStamps.
These stamps will be available for purchase at Post Office locations nationwide and at usps.com/outdoors.
Who: John M. Barger, U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors
David Vela, deputy director, National Park Service, exercising the authority of the director
Where: The virtual stamp event will be posted on the Postal Service’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
When: Saturday, June 13, 11 a.m. EDT.
How to View:
Facebook
If you choose to watch a virtual Postal Service stamp event through your mobile device:
- Download the Facebook app from your phone’s app store. (If you already have the app, go to step 3.)
- Sign in to your Facebook account.
- In the search box, type USPS.
- Select “Pages” and click the “Like” button for “US Postal Service.”(Note: You must “Like” USPS to be able to view the virtual event.)
- Once you have liked USPS, go to the USPS Facebook page.
Scroll down the page until you see “Posts.”- Click on the event. (Note: If you are experiencing technical difficulties or the event doesn’t start exactly at the scheduled time and you don’t see the livestream, keep refreshing your page until it becomes available.)
- Jump down, spin around, throw the dog a bone. No, sorry, we made this one up. Go have a drink. You’ll need it if you made it this far.
If you choose to watch a virtual Postal Service stamp event through your desktop or laptop, sign in to your Facebook account.
- In the search box, type USPS.
Select “Pages” and click the “Like” button for “US Postal Service.”(Note: You must “Like” USPS to be able to view the virtual event.)- Once you have liked USPS, go to the USPS Facebook page.
- Scroll down the page until you see “Posts.”
- Click on the event. (Note: If you are experiencing technical difficulties or the event doesn’t start exactly at the scheduled time and you don’t see the livestream, keep refreshing your page until it becomes available.)
Twitter
Mobile view: Open Twitter app. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can download the Twitter app and create your own account, or open twitter.com/USPS from your phone’s web browser. Once the ceremony begins, the virtual event will appear at the top of the USPS Twitter feed. If the ceremony doesn’t appear, keep refreshing the page until the event appears.
Desktop view: Sign in to your Twitter account or open twitter.com/USPS from your computer’s web browser. Once the ceremony begins, the virtual event will appear at the top of the USPS Twitter feed. If the ceremony doesn’t appear, keep refreshing the page until the event appears.
Background:
The Enjoy the Great Outdoors stamps artwork depicts five different scenes of various outdoor activities — building a sandcastle, hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing and biking. In these hand-sketched and painted designs, artist Gregory Manchess uses light and shadow to evoke a sense of wonder for these remarkable landscapes. Surrounding the pane of 20 stamps is a painting showing trees and the bank of a body of water. The small figures of a canoe in the water and a man standing ashore holding an oar are visible at the top of the selvage. The title “Enjoy the Great Outdoors” appears right above the pane of stamps in white lettering. Derry Noyes, a USPS art director, designed the stamps.
Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Postal Products
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through The Postal Store at usps.com/shop, by calling 800-STAMP24 (800-782-6724), by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide.
Updated May 28th:
The USPS says there will not be a first-day ceremony for this issue, but the stamps will still go on sale June 13th.
Updated May 8, 2020 from the Postal Bulletin:
On June 13, 2020, in Incline Village, NV, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Enjoy the Great Outdoors stamps (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate) in five designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of 20 stamps (Item 572800). The stamps will go on sale nationwide June 13, 2020, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue. The Enjoy the Great Outdoors pane of 20 stamps may not be split and the stamps may not be sold individually.
With the release of the Enjoy the Great Outdoors Forever® stamps, the Postal Service™ celebrates the many ways individuals experience America’s abundance of natural beauty. These hand-sketched and painted designs depict five different scenes showing outdoor activities:
- Building a sandcastle,
- Canoeing,
- Hiking,
- Biking, and
- Cross-country skiing.
Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps with original art by Gregory Manchess.
Automatic distribution to post offices.
How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark:
Customers have 120 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™ or at The Postal Store® website at usps.com/shop. They must affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:
FDOI – Enjoy the Great Outdoors Stamps
USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services
8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64144-9900
After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. There is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50. All orders must be postmarked by October 13, 2020.
Technical Specifications:
Issue: Enjoy the Great Outdoors Stamps
Item Number: 572800
Denomination & Type of Issue: First-Class Mail Forever
Format: Pane of 20 (5 designs)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: June 13, 2020, Incline Village, NV 89451
Art Director: Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Designer: Derry Noyes, Washington, DC
Artist: Gregory Manchess, Fort Thomas, KY
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Press Type: Muller A76
Stamps per Pane: 20
Print Quantity: 35,000,000 stamps
Paper Type: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Processed at: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Stamp Orientation: Horizontal
Image Area (w x h): 1.42 x 0.84 in./36.068 x 21.336 mm
Stamp Size (w x h): 1.56 x 0.98 in./39.624 x 24.892 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h): 7.24 x 7.65 in./183.896 x 194.31 mm
Press Sheet Size (w x h): 23.2 x 21.97 in./ 589.28 x 558.038 mm
Colors: Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
Plate Size: 180 stamps per revolution
Plate Number: “P” followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings:
Front: Header: Enjoy the Great Outdoors • Plate number in bottom two corners
Back: ©2019 USPS • USPS logo • Two barcodes (572800) • Promotional text • Plate position diagram (9)
Here are the first-day cancels for this issue:
The Digital Color Postmark measures 1.85″ x 1.47″ 
The pictorial postmark measures 1.61″ x 1.27″
Updated April 17th: USA Philatelic [sales catalogue] shows a first-day date of June 13th, a Saturday, at Incline Village, NV.
The first stamp almost looks like the Kite Flying held each year on Padre Island, TX
We attended several years and were in awe of the different kites and designs.
Where can I purchase these stamps?
They have not yet been issued. When they are, at your local post office or via http://store.usps.com or 800-STAMP24
You can Pre-Order them through the USA Philatelic Catalog. The Information was broadcast in “2020 Volume 25 Quarter Two” Page 6. They go On Sale 13 June 2020, with a First Day City of Incline Village NV ( Lake Tahoe ) IF THE CEREMONY IS NOT CANCELLED. You can Still Pre-order the stamps from Stamp Fulfillment Services PO Box 7247 PHILADELPHIA PA 19101-7097,
and the USPS will mail them to you, On of After 13 June.
These Stamps will appear on USPS.COM some time after they are broadcast in the Postal Bulletin, either May 7 or 21.
http://www.northlaketahoeexpress.com/routes/
The Blue route goes to/from Incline Village NV to the Reno NV Airport One-way in 2019 was $49.
This is one of those places that if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it. Similar to or more expensive than Hawai’i. That doesn’t include the Casinos. This is in Washoe County NV, and a Stones-Throw to the California Line.
From Post Bull 07 May. All previous confirmed. No “More Specific” Info on the time/location of the PLANNED FDoI ceremony. PIC & DCP artwork released. WILL Be on Auto-Distrib., Must buy a full Pane-20.
From Linns SEP 17 Scott 5475-9, as predicted.
Lovely. Thanks to NJ Gov Phil Murphy, beaches and all parks are blocked. Enjoy them only via tgese stamps
Well, Murphy only blocked those in New Jersey.
Are these representative of actual places or just fictional illustrations? The main reason I ask is because the one with a canoeing couple amongst rock pillars kind of reminded me of Pictured Rocks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I’m probably way off base but I’ve been told that before.
https://www.bike-o-vision.com/store/p29/The_Painted_Desert_%26_Sedona%2C_Arizona.html
Could be either the Painted Desert in AZ, or near the Painted Hills Over-look NW of Mitchell, Oregon.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Painted+Hills+Overlook/@44.6433208,-120.285114,13.38z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x54bc0787dd85965b:0x980ceb3d5a2dd9d!2sMitchell,+OR+97750!3b1!8m2!3d44.566525!4d-120.153341!3m4!1s0x54bc05ab31b1004b:0x1e5181d46e2ab700!8m2!3d44.6498491!4d-120.2667761?hl=en
I wondered the same thing–whether these were based on real places. The biker looks to be in the Moab area of Utah, but it could be any one of a number of places. The canoe trip looks like what you can do at Hopewell Rocks, NB, perhaps Apostle Islands, WI, or Fathom Five National Marine Park, ON.
Arturo, if these U.S. stamp designs are based on real places, I doubt they would be from New Brunswick or Ontario. Of course, stranger things have happened with u.S. stamp designs, like putting the Grand Canyon in the wrong state or depicting an honoree’s brother instead of the honoree. 🙂
No, according to a USPS spokesman in reply to our (your) question, no, the designs are “no specific locations.”
My guess on stamp locations
Beaches of Lake Michigan, many beaches have kit days and festivals
stamps with Canoes, WI Dells.
Hiking, White Mt. NH
Biking, UT
Skiing, Aspen, CO
A close look shows no USPS Micro-Print, though the 2020 on the side is real small. USPS has had ‘legal issues’ with stamps of real people, so these are ‘artists conceptions’ of no specific places. The artists all work For the Post Office. Guesses are in the comments above. ( Thank You US Justice System… ) This also happened with the state of Oregon 150th Anniversary stamp. Its done by an artists, of a place that might be somewhere on the southern Oregon coast, but no actual place was specifically depicted. No mention of Places of Inspiration was given during the First Day of Issue Virtual presentation.
The cross-country skiing stamp is a real place.
The people are skiing on Chocorua Lake in New Hampshire with Mt Chocorua in the background. The AMC says Mt Chocorua one of the most frequently photographed scene in New England.
For more info, visit http://www.chocorualake.org.