Backroads
Backroads
Tom Hale, Backroads founder and president, built Backroads with his passion for exploring the world’s most fascinating places actively. Thirty five years later, each Backroads employee and legions of loyal travelers could not imagine a better way to travel—immersing yourself in the life of a region and exploring hidden corners while enjoying the benefits and enormous satisfaction of traveling under your own power. These are experiences you cannot have behind the wheel of a car, or on a train or a tour bus, or in a few excursions from a cruise ship or a secluded resort. Active travel is, at its heart, a way of connecting more authentically with the world. Sure, Backroads provides superb accommodations and meals, and opportunities you could never arrange on your own. But all of our comprehensive planning and support is aimed at something far simpler: bringing you the immediate, highly personal satisfaction of discovering a new world on your own terms.

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Backroads Director of Operations Matt Fletcher introduces our new e-bike.
June 29, 2020

Video: Meet the New Backroads E-bike!

Check out our new video featuring our completely redesigned, ready-to-roll titanium e-bike, which made its debut this summer! See Backroads Director of Operations Matt Fletcher introduce the Equalizer below.

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Introducing the Backroads Touring Bike
June 29, 2020

Video: Meet the Backroads Touring Bike

Check out our video to get reacquainted with a tried-and-true classic, the Backroads titanium Touring Bike.

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California Wine Country Bike Tour
May 26, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Wine Country California

Ready for another Bite-Sized Backroads Trip? Our series of virtual adventures continues as we head west to the sunshine, vineyards, wineries and back roads of California's Wine Country!

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Bite-Sized Backroads Trip - Andes & the Galapagos Islands
May 19, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Ecuador & The Galapagos Islands

It's time for another virtual Bite-Sized Backroads Trip! This time we asked former Trip Leader (and now Assistant Director of Trip Development) Riley Pearce to take us on a virtual trip to the far-off land of the Galapagos Islands.

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Backroads Trip Leader Utah
May 12, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Bryce & Zion

Our next Bite-Sized Backroads Trip is here! We're definitely feeling the urge to get out in some wide open spaces right about now, and Utah is one of our favorite escapes!

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Tetons Wyoming Backroads
May 11, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Yellowstone & Tetons

Continuing with our series of videos specially made to bring a bit of the Backroads travel world right to your home, we asked Trip Leader and Tetons local Ed Krajsky to show us his Wyoming backyard, and what an epic place it is!

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Bite-Sized Cinque Terre Trip
May 11, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Cinque Terre & Tuscany

In the spirit of traveling virtually from our homes, we asked Trip Leader Tommaso Spinelli to take us to his home country of Italy and one of its most famous treasures: the Cinque Terre.

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Bite-Sized Costa Rica Backroads Trip
May 11, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: Costa Rica

Continuing with our series of videos specially made to bring a bit of the Backroads travel world right to your home, we asked former Trip Leader (and now Regional Manager) Pam Fritz to take us on a virtual trip to the land of "Pura Vida": Costa Rica!

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Hiking in the Canadian Rockies
May 6, 2020

How a Backroads Mom Raised Two Champion Cyclists

In honor of Mother's Day and all the inspirational, kind and strong moms who keep things running smoothly (both at Backroads and in life!), we wanted to shine a spotlight on one of our favorite moms in our Backroads community. Meet Alison Iles, a former Trip Leader and current mom of two champion mountain-bikers in Canada.

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Backroads Trip Leader Loire Valley
April 20, 2020

Bite-Sized Backroads Trip: The Loire Valley

We asked Trip Leader Elle Lichter to take us on a virtual trip to France’s world-famous Loire Valley to share her insights and behind-the-scenes info from this beautiful corner of Europe, and satisfy just a bit of your wanderlust!

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