It professed to represent the outdoor community and interests such as cycling, bushwalking, camping, kayaking, 4WD motoring, skiing, fishing and shooting.

At the 1999 NSW general election, Druery formulated a strategy by means of which preference votes could be harvested from a large number of small political parties.

Amendments to the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 made it much harder for minor political parties to be registered, thus eliminating the type of preference manipulation from which the ORP had previously benefited.

[citation needed] In late 2009, the ORP allied itself with the Liberal Democratic Party in NSW to contest the March 2011 state election.

[4] In the 2016 federal election, the Outdoor Recreation Party (Stop The Greens) fielded a single House of Representatives candidate in the Division of Forrest.