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It's the perfect time of year for the quintessential American road trip
Whether you’re refueling after a dawn patrol or heading out for a day of on the snow, here’s where to dig into some of the best breakfasts in the mountains
A hotel should be more than just a place to sleep. These new ski-town lodges go above and beyond.
Sedona, Arizona, is known for some seriously technical mountain bike trails like Highline, Hangover and White Line. There are also a few hiking trails that most people consider unrideable, like Cathedral Rock trail. Watch as rider Simon Bosman proves them wrong. …
There's a lot more to mountain biking than hardcore shredding, nailing jumps, and drifting around corners. Quality Time, from OneUP Components, was filmed in the Monashee Mountains near Revelstoke, British Columbia, and proves that simply spending some time riding through the wilderness is all you really need. …
All the exhilaration of a good old-fashioned adventure, without the risk of having to eat your tripmates
Need to thaw out? Here are beaches worth visiting this winter.
No sense driving to the ski hill when you can take a train instead.
Ski or snowshoe by moonlight, and you’ll deserve the gourmet feast that follows
Don’t let the church steeples and quaint New England vibes fool you: Stowe can party. The town serves up some of the best skiing on the East Coast, including Vermont’s highest peak, Mount Mansfield, which pulls down 314 inches of fresh a year. And the après cene is just as…
Not many places can blend a Wild West sensibility with ski-town chic, but Steamboat Springs is successful on both fronts. The mountain of Steamboat dominates the horizon with almost 3,000 acres of skiing, while working ranches consume the valley. As for the town itself, you can still find a bit…
Tahoe is a sprawling place that encompasses ten resorts and chunks of two states, but the scene is centralized within South Lake Tahoe, where dive bars feed casinos that lead to nightclubs that empty back out into the casinos.
Jackson Hole Resort is billed as the hardest inbounds skiing in the United States, and the après-ski scene can get just as rowdy as Corbets Couloir.
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that Canyons is now part of Park City, and a new gondola connects the two ski areas, making it the single largest resort in the country—7,300 acres, but who’s counting?—and Deer Valley is still here, too.
Sure, Aspen was founded for silver mining in the late 1800s, but you could argue that the town was really founded for post-ski partying.
This hilarious video from MeUndies tells the story of climber-turned-tree-house-builder Django Kroner. Kroner moved to Kentucky's Red River Gorge to pursue climbing, where he also began building tree houses. Yes, this is clearly branded content. But we're not getting paid to post it—and we think Kroner and his tree…
North Coast 500: A Pure Highlands Adventure is a short film from Calling Brands about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile loop around the whole north of Scotland. The route was designed by the North Highlands Initiative as a way to increase tourism for small businesses in the area, and gained a reputation…
Action-oriented alternatives to get you through the winter
We're big fans of all the films from the folks at More Than Just Parks, a filmmaking duo in the process of creating videos on all 59 of the U.S.'s National Parks. For their latest effort, the crew spent 15 days shooting more than 15,000 photos and videos…
A small team of mountain bikers went on an expedition to the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia. The stated goal was to summit the country’s highest peak, 14,928-foot Ras Deshan, and ride back down.
The 21-year-old stumbled on photography just a few years ago through his mom’s 1990’s DSLR. Since then, he’s developed a speciality in capturing simplistic, outdoor scenes around much of the American South.
Capital is venturing out of Silicon Valley to the nation's coolest towns
It’s no secret what you’re getting into when you run across Cabin Porn on the bookshelf: unadulterated, glorious cabins.
Travel south and stay warm for a long walk on these worthy winter trails
Once a year, Johannesburg-based Wilderness Safaris organizes its Tour de Tuli, a 300-kilometer (186-mile), four-day MTB ride through the Tuli Block of southern Africa, connecting Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Want to find the crowd-free surf of yesteryear? Drive from Los Angeles to Baja, load five days of gear onto a SUP, and haul ass through thick fog, screaming seagulls, and open ocean to the rocky, big-wave coast of Todos Santos.
Unlimited access for big-tired bikes
Not visiting the in-laws? Have an adventurous Turkey Day in one of these destinations.
North Face co-founder Doug Tompkins has an ambitious goal: to donate 12 national parks in Chile and Argentina
No matter how you like to ski or how long you can take off work, we've got the perfect trip in our guide to the best alpine escapes of the season
Park ranger Kelly Carroll turned the Great Basin into Nevada’s biggest show of stars
Even if you don't believe in campfire stories about ghosts and aliens, you can get your fill of fright with a haunted pre-trick-or-treat hike this Halloween.
Presenting the best trips in one of the hemisphere's hottest travel regions.
Imagine a river with steep, big water rapids like the Stikine in British Columbia running through deep-walled canyons like the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It’s understandably hard to visualize, but these pictures of Kyrgyzstan’s Sary-Jaz River should help.
Fulfill that childhood fantasy and book one of these high-end treehouses, from Costa Rica to Italy to San Francisco
Escape San Francisco to play in the booming East Bay
Well yeah, we're convinced.
Testing mountain bikes is always fun, but add an epic destination like Iceland into the mix and it reaches a whole new level. That's exactly what happened when Yeti Cycles sent photographers and filmmakers Joey Schusler and Craig Grant, and pro rider…
Berty Mandagie, a photographer from Seattle, WA, recently found himself on a trip to a place he'd wanted to visit since childhood: Machu Picchu. Along the way, he learned that often there's more to the trip of a lifetime than a just a dream destination. …
Where to enjoy autumn's best views—on two feet or two wheels
Presenting blueprints for the best way to beat post-summer blues
Learning to ride the waves isn't easy. But pick the right spot and find a gifted enough teacher, and you'll find your flow state
More Than Just Parks' latest film, Redwood, comes after several weeks spent exploring Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California. The parks are home to the tallest trees in the world, which can reach staggering heights of over 360 feet. Combine the…
Pack your bags to go for a run in the woods.
Find a hardy vehicle and hit the (off-) road
Spring in South America means snow, whitewater, and adventure everywhere you look
These systems are worthy of your attention. Get your wheels spinning.
These dune towns have turned deserts into adventure oases
In burgs recognized for an abundance of adventure, these are the winning places that will set you up for everything
Two days in the city should be enough to convince you to make the move
Off-the-charts home values are turning countless adventure hubs into fiefdoms of the wealthy—but they aren’t going down without a fight
A river- and mountain-loving town took home the top prize (again) in our 2015 contest.
Award-winning weed meets high-quality destination
The driving's so much easier when your Point B is a pint
Patagonia 8K, from Martin Heck at Timestorm Films, explores the beautiful and rough landscapes of Southern Chile and Argentina. The crew aimed to deliver the most realistic experience possible, and shot roughly 100,000 frames in 8K resolution on a medium format camera to create…
Filmmaker Matt Duddles shot this timelapse of star trails and the Milky Way over Mercey Hot Springs in California, in May of 2015. It's only two hours from the Bay Area, where light pollution would make this kind of timelapse photography impossible.
Fishing? Riding horses? Eating like a king? These destinations have it all.
Riding from Durango to Moab on a mountain bike isn't easy: you cover around 215-miles, climbing 3,500 feet a day, some of it probably during a lightning storm or through thick mud, with temperatures ranging from forty to 115 degrees and plenty of route-finding involved.
Two towns bonded over their Best Towns rivalry
Bushwhacking, pack rafts, and a historic float down one of the world's most beautiful wildernesses.
These places may not have won our Best Towns competition, but they're still pretty rad
Photographer Josh Hydeman has made it his mission to illuminate America's caves and spark interest in what lies beneath.
Pedal the world’s best dine-and-wine destinations, then sleep in style
Gone: The days of treadmills shoved into ugly hotel closets. Here: The hotel gym you wish you could take home.
From easy, flowy routes to steep singletrack, these are the trails that belong on your bucket list
Kitsbow stole pro mountain biker Jeff Kendall-Weed for three days in June to explore a few of Washington’s iconic mountain bike trails. The diversity and quality of riding should be evident from the imagery captured and the smile on Jeff’s face. It’s trails like these that remind…
Sleeping in the wilderness is great. Not so great: making camp and dealing with the inevitable missing stake. So we've got recommendations for tent-free wilderness digs on any budget.