Backroads in the News

Backroads is slowly starting to look toward post-Covid travel and just released their 2021 trip dates, as well as new protocol for post coronavirus trips. Backroads reports seeing a steady interest from guests wanting to travel in 2021, and have also changed their cancellation policy to offer even more flexibility with trip changes.

Backroads, the world’s largest active travel company, has come up with a series of conditioning tips to help travelers use their time at home to get in their best shape for future active vacations.

Debbie Finn, a 50-year-old Generation X-er, hit the milestone birthday, she marked it by hiking four to six hours a day in Portugal and Spain

Our Backroads Norway trips have been guest favorites and our new Norway’s Lofoten Islands Hiking & Trekking Tour is trending very popular in 2020.

People have been walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain for over a millennium...

This six-day cruise, which winds from Burlington, Vermont, up to Montreal, hits an endless procession of classic New England and French-Canadian highlights.

Traverse the Carolinas, climb the Blue Ridge Mountains, and experience Southern Appalachian culture with Backroads

Backroads, the active travel tour company, has announced its list of adventure travel trends for 2020, based on early guest bookings and inquiries that the company has received

Flying over dramatic alpine scenery to remote ridges in the Canadian Rockies offers thrills and vantage points that few have experienced

"In 2016, Backroads added new training for its guides on how to handle a “group within a group."

“Next year, Backroads will introduce a “20s & Beyond” segment dedicated to parents traveling with their children in their 20s and 30s”

The benefits of traveling in a group

“Targeting parents traveling with adult kids in their 20s and early 30s, adventure travel company Backroads launched a 20 & Beyond segment”

"Backroads options span the globe, but the ones that look most tantalizing to me are New Zealand Multi-Adventure, Greece Multi-Adventure, and Spain’s Mallorca and Menorca Bike Tour."

"Traverse the Carolinas, climb the Blue Ridge Mountains, and experience Southern Appalachian culture with Backroads, a 40-year-old company known for its upscale, active trips."

"The logistics of plotting a multi-day bike trip here seemed overwhelming, so we left that side of things to Backroads, an adventure travel company that runs cycling vacations around the world."

"Backroads, which has designed and led trips for families for more than 30 years, created these new age-specific products in response to a growing demand for active family travel, as well as requests from repeat guests who travel with Backroads as their kids grow."

"...as I made plans to go to New Zealand for my very first visit, I wanted to make sure to do it right. For me, that meant it would be as part of a Backroads active cruise."

"Learn about Backroads active ocean and river cruise trips from this podcast."

"Far from the bustling crowds of Venice and Rome, this trip from Backroads takes you on a cycling trip through the less-traveled region of Puglia, located in the heel of Italy’s boot."

"Need to learn how to hire, train, and manage a highly distributed, nearly autonomous workforce? Backroads might be the perfect role model."

"Dudek said working year-round as a bicycling guide for Backroads has turned out to be as much a lifestyle as it is a job."

"Now’s your chance to see bison lumbering across the icy landscape, otters fishing in semi-frozen streams and maybe even catch a glimpse of a cautious gray wolf."

"Already checked Spain’s famed pilgrimage off your bucket list? We dug up additional must-do adventures — all new for 2018 — from other top outfitters. "