 In 2006, dozens of longtime Summiteers formed a non-profit corporation to take over the project from NWF.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.In 2012, a Summit was held again at the inaugural Summit site near Rocky Mountain National Park at the YMCA of the Rockies near Estes Park, Colorado, and the following year at Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine.