Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue was published in September 1977. Its mission statement is:
History
Its founders were
Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief),
William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and
Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher
Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President
Gerald Ford). Wenner sold the magazine to current owner Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Christopher Keyes is the current editor.