Sanitary measures and physical distancing at the time of COVID-19 have created an opportunity for a reflection and a letter exchange between the authors about nature and recreotourism. National parks, urban parks, and other types of « ordinary nature » spaces serve as examples of the crisis’ complexity and paradoxes. The crisis situation shines light on the unequal ways in which the relation to nature and associated practices are affected, inequalities that also exist in « normal » times. Dematerialization of nature-based and outdoors activities appear as an alternative solution to infringed mobility. As stay-at-home tourism will likely be unconfined first, and because nature spaces facilitate social distancing, they hold a leading role during and after the COVID-19 crisis.