Articles Index
Scotland - Canoeing Adventures in the Scottish Highlands
Canoe trips are popular on the lakes and in the rivers that flow through the astonishingly beautiful Scottish Highlands, as well as around some of the Scottish Isles. At many of the big lakes, from Loch Tay to Loch Lomand and Loch Ness, you can rent a canoe for a few hours or a day.
Adventure Travel Blog Site - The Adventure Blog
The Adventure Blog 's author, Kraig Becker, does a terrific job of scouring the Web then passing links on to us, so we have easy access to a grab bag of extreme adventures.
National Geographic Adventure Maps Highlight Adventure Travel in Great Locations
National Geographic has a series of rugged adventure maps for adventures travelers. Don't look for museums and restaurants in these maps. Instead, in the National Geographic AdventureMap series, you'll find information and maps of national parks and preserves where you can hike or mountain bike, popular diving or fishing spots, plus tips and insights you'd have to get friendly with locals to snag the advice and suggestions.
Adventure Travel Book Review - Marshall Corwin's "Extreme Survival"
Marshall Corwin's "Extreme Survival - An Adventurer's Guide to the World's most Dangerous Places" is as potentially useful as it is scary. Corwin's a true adventure traveler and he's been to some of the most dangerous places on earth. But even if you never trek in the Arctic or canoe down the Amazon, certain tips are very valuable whether you're climbing in the mountains, hiking on a desert or stuck outside on a frigid day.
ATV Rides - Take an ATV Ride at Snowbird, in a Canyon Near Salt Lake City, Utah
How about straddling an ATV and exploring the top of Snowbird in Utah? After ski season the High Country Exploring outfitters (, 877-577-7877) provide ATV tours through some of the most rugged and dramatic country close to an urban center.
Ice Climbing in the Teton Ice Park at Grand Targhee
"So you know not to impale yourself right?" my climbing partner Jens Werner said casually as I sized up my first ice route at Teton Ice Park located in the southwestern edge of Wyoming. Read guest author Tim Shisler's article about learning to ice climb at the Teton Ice Park at Grand Targhee, Wyoming.
Hiking Trails - Free Hiking Trail Tips on TrailLink.com
If you’re looking for hiking tips on where to go, TrailLink has detailed information on more than 30,000 miles of bike trails, walking trails, equestrian trails, and hiking and running trails. On the site, you can customize directions to points along a trail, and share photos, reviews and GPS data.
Lonely Planet Travel Books Are Bibles of Travel Tips and Advice
Lonely Planet travel books include guidebooks for destinations worldwide, language guides, digital guides, audio guides, and travel books filled with advice, photography and personal travel stories.
Yellowstone Lodging and Learning Programs
Lodging and Learning programs, and Ed-Ventures tours of Yellowstone National Park are entertaining ways to explore the nation's first national park in more depth.
Adventure Travel - Bicycle Trips with Ciclismo Classico
Ciclisimo Classico has been creating innovative and unusual bicycling itineraries for some 20 years, which focus on connecting travelers with the local culture and making cycling tours fun for all ages and abilities. This boutique tour operator offers well-crafted educational trips in Italy, France, Spain, Austria and New England.
Magellan's is a One-Stop Shop for Travel Supplies, Gear and Clothing
Travel junkies visit Magellan’s often to see what’s new in gear, accessories, clothing and supplies.
Bachelor's Adventure Travel Blog at ShermansTravel
You never know what to expect in Blane Bachelor's weekly adventure travel column at ShermansTravel. One week she's writing about her experience entering the Fig Leaf 5K. Other weeks she covers everything from what it's like to tackle a natural obstacle course in the Dominican Republic to revealing a place where you can ski, mountain bike and hike all in the same day.
Natural Habitat Adventures Is for Nature Loving Adventurers
Natural Habitat Adventures is for adventure travelers who enjoy nature expeditions. Naturalist guides bring travelers face-to-face with polar bears, to sit near a family of mountain gorillas, and see tigers in India's less-visited parks. This company focuses solely on nature travel around the globe.
Adventure Travelers Will Appreciate The Gear Junkie's Equipment Reviews
The Gear Junkie thrives on expeditions to rugged locales, joining adventure races and testing equipment for hiking, mountain biking, diving and a range of other sports. His site has dozens of honest, thoughtful equipment reviews.
Oyster.com Offers Unbiased Hotel Reviews and Nearby Great Adventures
Oyster.com is a hotel review site, which also offers hand-picked local blogger's tips on local adventures and activities. Although it's mainly a hotel-review Web site, Oyster members also offers some excellent insights into adventurous activities.
Experience Adventure Travel with Adventure Life
Adventure Life, which was founded in 1999, focuses on nature, cultural, and active travel. It's an adventure travel company that offers preset itineraries, creates custom trips, and has several trips designed specifically for solo travelers.
Off-the-Beaten Path Adventure Travel: Visit Intrepid Travel
Intrepid Travel is a niche adventure travel company that focuses on taking travelers off the beaten track in Asia, and in the Antarctica. Many of their trips are cheap, because travelers stay in the same accommodations as locals do.
Grab Hiking and Biking Trail Descriptions on Free & Local Web Sites
There are Web sites with excellent trail descriptions around the country, but they cost. Why pay. Many resort towns and even cities with extensive public park systems offer free detailed descriptions of hiking and biking trails on their Web sites, or they include links to sites that tell you where to park, length of trails and often rate a trail's steepness and difficulty level.
Adventure Travel - BikeHike Adventures
BikeHike Adventures is for travelers addicted to exploring the outdoors during multi-sport adventures. The company offers trips to Costa Rica, Peru, Vietnam and other countries with a focus on going well off-the-beaten path and learning about local cultures.
Adventure Travel Trips and Vacations With Travcoa
Looking for luxury tours filled with adventures? Travcoa offers escorted tours, custom vacations and luxury private jet trips.
Heliskiing or hiking with Canadian Mountain Holidays HeliSki and HeliHike Trips
If heli-skiing or heli-hiking are on your adventure-travel radar, check out the variety of trips offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH). In the winter this company offers heli-ski for advanced intermediates to expert skiers and snowboarders. In the summer, the heli-hiking trips for novices to experienced hikers and for families. CMH also has mountaineering trips.
REI Adventures Offers Great Active Travel Trips
REI Adventures offers great active travel trips, such as canoeing on a lake here in the U.S., cycling in Vietnam, or sea kayaking and hiking in Croatia. And, these are just a few of the 90plus weekend-to-multiweek trips offered by REI Adventures, part of the REI that has more than 80 stores in the U.S. chock-full of equipment and clothing for adventure travelers.
Soft Adventure Travel - Walking Trips with Classic Journeys
Classic Journeys specializes in boutique, small-group, soft-adventure travel. The company operates three types of trips: cultural walking adventures, family journeys and culinary tours. Any tour can be customized. Classic Journeys is a three-time winner in Travel + Leisure Magazine's "World's Best Tour Operator" category.
Adventure Travel -- Ecotourism and Nature Trips With International Expeditions
International Expeditions offers small-group eco-tours and nature travel trips to exotic locations including the Amazon, Egypt, Galapagos, India and Kenya during the annual animal migration.
Adventure Travel Trips with Austin-Lehman Adventures
Looking for a company that offers personalized, reasonably priced adventure travel trips that are limited to 12 people? Here's where to learn more about adventure travel with Austin-Lehman Adventures