Backroads adventures inspire treasured memories, but not every highlight happens on the trail. Our Italy trips feature hotels that feel like welcoming and elegant homes away from home, spots that tell the stories of Puglia, Tuscany and the Dolomites through delicious details. Here are a few of our favorite places to rest and reset after a day of adventure.

The Backroads Give Back Field Project (GBFP) program gives Field Staff the chance to strengthen our connection to the places we travel by volunteering their time for local conservation efforts.

Part company meeting, part bike tour, part rave, Staff Ride is Backroads’ annual company gathering. Each fall, hundreds of Backroads staff (600+ this year) descend on some corner of the world—India, Croatia, Italy and this year, Valencia, Spain, for a week of cycling, reconnecting and unapologetic joy.

If there’s a better month for travel than May, we don’t know what it is. The weather is mild; the crowds are small. And the sense of possibility that comes with fully-sprung spring leavens every adventure.

We’re pros at navigating unexpected changes. Here’s how we make sure every trip is a great trip, even during heat waves.

Enthusiastic, genuine, endlessly resourceful—just a few words to capture the spirit of Backroads Trip Leaders.

When women travel together, something amazing happens. Cheering each other on up the big climbs, waving to local kids and lingering at roadside markets.

Set sail on an unforgettable European journey where adventure flows as effortlessly as the river itself. By day, cycle or hike past vineyards and castles, explore medieval villages and experience history up-close. By night, unwind in comfort aboard our intimate river ships.

As world travelers, you surely have flown out of the country by plane. Maybe you’ve gone north and shown your passport to a Canadian officer who asked, “Good day, eh?” Perhaps you have used the high-speed trains of Europe to whisk you from place to place.

 At the heart of my time in Ecuador is the Fundación Galo Plaza Lasso—the nonprofit project arm of one of our accommodations, Hacienda Zuleta, which is devoted to conservation, education and sustainable community development in the town of Zuleta within the Imbabura Province.