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ArchiveA video postcard from travel and photography blog Bitt-n.com about their recent adventure on New Zealand’s South Island.聽 聽…
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Once the home of Colorado's governor and now the home of Leadville's mayor, these Victorian suites offer adventure out the front door
An excerpt from Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies examines the spaces between borders
A photo is only worth 1,000 words if you know how to capture the right one. These six programs can help.
A look at 国产吃瓜黑料’s 2014 Travel Award winning trail, the Via Dinarica, on the Balkan Peninsula. The trail’s main artery, called the “White Trail,” encompasses nearly 1,250 miles of trekking and runs across 8000-foot peaks and picturesque meadows from Slovenia to Kosovo. Writer and 国产吃瓜黑料r Alex…
Most CrossFit affiliates across the country welcome out-of-towners who want to take part in the workout of the day鈥攐r WOD鈥攎aking any vacation into a possible CrossFit vacation. But if you鈥檙e looking for a trip that specifically caters to people who like to spend their free time doing burpees, snatches, ring…
Channel your inner voyageur at the Burntside Lodge in Minnesota
These credit cards were made for those of us with a serious case of wanderlust. With the right piece of plastic, those everyday charges could land you major air travel bonuses.
If we鈥檙e actually concerned about climate change and our contribution to it, should we really be flying all over the world to visit places for fun? The simple answer is no. The International Council on Clean Transportation,聽a nonprofit that helps transportation industries around the world become more…
Tenaya Lodge offers family-friendly fun and easy access to California's most famous park
American Loneliness tells the story of filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay’s solitary journey into one of the most attractive areas on the planet: the American West. His journey consisted of a six week adventure backpacking through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Washington. From snowstorms in Yellowstone…
There's a reason exiles dreaded being packed off to Siberia. While retracing the path of a doomed 19th-century U.S. polar expedition in the Russian High Arctic, we encounter swarming mosquitoes, a few Kalashnikovs, an island lost in time, the burial site of ten brave men, and a haunting beauty like nothing we've ever seen.
Beat the crowds on the not-so-beaten path this summer in one of America's favorite national parks.
What happens when you give up on a conventional life and pack your family into an Airstream, with no destination in mind?聽You get to explore and rediscover America on your own terms, and create a new kind of home out of wandering. A short from Dark Rye,…
Five wild mountain ranges. Hundreds of miles of trails. Zero crowds. That’s what awaits visitors at the country’s newest Naitonal Monument in New Mexico. Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks聽consists of four separate patches of the Chihuahuan Desert surrounding Las Cruces in southern New Mexico. Encompassing a half-million acres…
Long stretches of open road through some of the most beautiful areas of the country, peppered with wildlife sightings, adventurous detours, and good brews鈥攊t's so much more than getting from Point A to Point B.
Who says you can鈥檛 build a cabin out of glass?
Summer nights are worth staying up for at these 7 dark-sky parks
The聽Pennine Way, England鈥檚 first national trail, turns 50 this year. Even if it鈥檚 literally over the hill, the 268-mile route of rolling terrain is as popular as ever, especially this weekend. July 12 marks the annual National Trails geocache release, during which new coins…
Seriously. Abbey Road Farm Bed and Breakfast offers an idyllic farm experience (plus llamas) in the outdoorsy paradise of Carlton, Oregon.
Traveling light and fast up and down mountains鈥攖hat’s the concept behind skyrunning, a sport that now boasts 200 races and 30,000 participants annually. In fact, the聽2014 Skyrunning World Championships聽took place over the weekend聽in Chamonix, France. The event continued the valley’s reputation as a trail running mecca where…
A travel edit from filmmaker Brandon Li about sadness and beauty at the end of summer on Fraser Island.聽…
On the Mount Rushmore of flight travel FAQs, this one sits between, 鈥淗ow do I get a free upgrade?鈥 and 鈥淲here the blank is my luggage?鈥 Although far from an exact science, picking the right time to book is now less of a guessing game thanks to new metrics and…
Sweating's divorced from everything chic...right?
You may have found him in the pages of search books, but the fun doesn't have to end there.
It鈥檚 such a culinary contradiction: the great gourmet food of New England is usually served on paper plates and eaten at picnic tables by grownups wearing plastic bibs. Yet there鈥檚 no denying that the tastiest lobster served in Maine invariably comes from laid back hole-in-the-wall food shacks that line the…
The best lodging for skiers are close to the action but feel far away from it all. These are the perfect abodes to return to after carving up the slopes.
These oases of relaxation, adventure, mindful eating, and awe-inspiring views are going to be very popular once it's safe travel again. Until then, we can dream.
Unlike the size of the fish you reel in, there's no need to exaggerate how nice these hotels are
Herd in Iceland is a documentary about the annual round-up of the Icelandic horse. Each year, traditional herdsmen take to the back country to round up thousands of the country’s hardy horses, which have spent the summer grazing in the highlands.聽Filmmaker Lindsay Blatt filmed this valued tradition…
Don鈥檛 waste time on trashy novels at the beach this summer. These new outdoor and adventure page turners prove yet again that true stories trump fiction for fun reads.聽 Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller鈥檚 Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | (Courtesy of HarperCollins) By…
These ground-tested strategies will help you conquer every last weekend.
With the World Cup underway, the beautiful game is first in hearts and minds. But Brazil has another signature sport: jiu-jitsu. The martial art and self-defense method is based on grappling and ground fighting. It鈥檚 a finer art than just choking a dude out. Although hailing from Japan, the Brazilian…
There's nothing more American than hitting the open road with the windows down, the music up, and a cooler full of beer in the backseat (you know, for later). Sure, the game has changed a little鈥攕martphones have all but rendered guidebooks and crumpled maps obsolete鈥攂ut one essential question remains: where to go? Look no further. We hand-picked the ten best, most adventure-packed road trips in the country.
Cuba. Where travelers lounge on picturesque beaches, swirl mojitos, dance til sunrise, and cruise back to their hotels in 鈥57 T-birds. Travelers, yes. But Americans, no. Until 2011, these indulgences were long off limits to U.S. citizens due to a Bay of Pigs鈥揺ra trade embargo.聽 But despite the Obama Administration…
The drive from Eureka, California, to Coos Bay, Oregon has dunes, salmon, and Jurassic Park-worthy greenery鈥攂ut no crowds. It'll be our little secret.
This Olympic Peninsula loop in Washington is a water-lover's dream鈥攖ake your pick of waterfalls, rivers, beaches, and lakes. And don't forget the seafood.
Take it to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula and find some of the best fishing, paddling, and moonshine-sampling of your life.
This road trip from New Orleans to Florida featuring lazy days feasting on the freshest seafood, sandy camping, and pristine paddling.
Hit up Best Towns 2014 winner Duluth, Minnesota, then hike and bike your way to Michigan's renowned shores.
It's a lonely road from Las Cruces, New Mexico, through West Texas, but very much worth it. Just a few reasons why: surreal white sand dunes, a massive network of caves, and mountain biking trails all to yourself.
Drive the Big Island loop in Hawaii鈥攁nd make time for long hiking or paddling trips, plus awe-inspiring face time with volcanoes, manta rays, and starry skies.
Five stunning national parks await beyond North America's 49th parallel. But beware: you'll face shifting ice, mercurial weather, and polar bears if you take this path less traveled.
Start in the Grand Canyon and wander up to Moab, Utah, with some moonlit camping and excellent mountain biking along the way.
The route from Jackson, Wyoming, to Glacier National Park, Montana packs in five national parks and plenty of watering holes.
Besides vampires, maybe, who doesn鈥檛 like celebrating on the longest day of sunlight of the year? Anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere that beer is sold and friends can be found pretty much suffices as a party venue. However, if you want a once-in-a-lifetime summer solstice experience on June 21, these…
A Southern Colorado loop where you can rough it in a yurt and throw one back in Durango.
We put together a bracket of our 64 favorite towns in the country. See how your pick stacked up.
Everyone has heard of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite鈥攁nd for good reason. These national parks are American treasures. But their red ravines, spewing geysers, and endless valleys attract countless visitors, especially come summer. If you want a dose of natural beauty sans crazy crowds, plan a trip to one…
Unless your idea of a great pre-flight drink involves an ersatz Irish pub or a sports bar with 18 light beers on tap, then you likely agree that America鈥檚 airport bars tend to be serviceable at best. Not that there鈥檚 anything wrong with slamming a Coors before takeoff, but a…
The Land Of聽is an entirely independent production that follows a group of surfers on a journey through Thailand as they gain new perspectives on travel that extend far beyond聽simply riding waves.聽In chapter one we find Joel Fitzgerald and Chrystal Jameson Fitzgerald in Phang Nga visiting the…
The winners of the $10,000 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Grant have set off on a journey of a lifetime鈥攁 2500-mile hitching odyssey across China on the ancient Silk Road.
What鈥檚 better than ice cream? It鈥檚 not a purely rhetorical question. The answer? Grown-up ice cream, spiked with wine, beer, and spirits. As the summer heat cranks to high, head to one of these regional ice cream spots for a shot of cool, creamy delight. Cayuga Lake Creamery Interlaken, New…
To best appreciate the fruit of the vine, you have to go to the source. And if the source happens to be the eastern foothills of the Andes in Mendoza, Argentina, all the better. This high-altitude terroir produces rich flavors, but the environs are also ripe for exploration by bike,…
National parks are America's greatest recreational asset. Now an overdue movement will make them even better.
A behind the scenes look at the 2014 GoPro Mountain Games. 聽…
