The first time I saw Italy was by bike. As it turned out, taking it slow, savoring the details, connecting more personally with the des...

There might be a creature lurking beneath the surface of Vermont's Lake Champlain. Have you seen it? ...

The dark cold waters of Scotland's Loch Ness stretch twenty-three miles in length and plunge to depths of nearly eight hundred feet, making it th...

Venture with Backroads to el fin del mundo – the end of the world. Patagonia is spectacularly remote and truly a place like no other… where glacie...

Utah is a magical place of diverse landscapes with enchanting geologic features. With over 70% of the land in the state in public hands, easily-ac...

A fantastic tale of man vs. beast persists in the Pacific Northwest: the book, the film, the gold diggers and the scientist; the believers and the...

Backroads Leaders in Central Oregon reveal SIX INSIDER REASONS why you should visit the city of BEND as soon as possible! ...

South America is home to an impressive array of animals living in nearly every type of environment from cactus-filled deserts to glaciated mountai...

Active travel is immersive. It's tangible. It awakens every one of your senses. You're not on a tour bus with a window between you and what's arou...

The view from a mountaintop is always worth it and it always inspires us. But the strange thing is, the view from the top always seems to obscure ...

Writing about the "why" of picnics at Backroads in a recent blog post got me thinking about the "how..." I certainly wasn't born knowing how to cr...

Game hunters in Africa originally coined the phrase "Big Five" to describe the five animals deemed hardest and most dangerous to hunt on foot: the...