There have been 119 Summits since 1970, with notable environmental educators, naturalists, authors and artists such as Robert Michael Pyle,[3] Jim Halfpenny,[4] Clare Walker Leslie,[5] Roger Tory Peterson, Annie Tiberio Cameron,[6] Steve Torbit,[7] and Craig Tufts [8] serving as faculty at many of the Summits.
[9] Summits have been held in Alaska, California, Michigan, West Virginia, Maine, New York, Colorado, Utah, three Canadian provinces, and elsewhere.
Family Summits, Inc. has produced Family Nature Summits since then as an independent organization, in Black Mountain, North Carolina in 2007; at Mount Hood, Oregon, in 2008; at the YMCA of the Adirondacks in Silver Bay, New York, in 2009; in the Sierra Nevada near Tahoe City, California, on Lake Tahoe in 2010 and 2017; near Potosi, Missouri, at the YMCA of the Ozarks in 2011.
After 2020-21 coronavirus cancellations, the 2022 event was at the Humboldt State University redwoods area of Northern California, 2023 in central Minnesota.
The July 6-12, 2024 gathering was at Arizona's Saguaro National Park half an hour from the 6,000 to 9,000 foot Catalina Mountains.