The data were collected between 2014 and 2017 and represent interviews of public lands users as they exited the location where they were recreating. Because the data represents human subjects, the data is presented as an aggregate of the original data to protect the participants. Data were aggregated at the party level and specific information about participants removed, as such the analyses represented in the manuscript may not always be represented by this data file as some analyses were conducted at the individual level, not party level, and/or included additional information that was not included here due to concerns over violating human subjects research norms. All analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics version 25. All data were collected under the approval of the University of Nebraska Institutional Review Board, approval 20120912892EX. For further information about the data or analysis please contact the lead author. Descriptions of the variables included in the data along with the survey questions used to populate the associated variable can be found in the ReadMe file.