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Five stunning national parks await beyond North America's 49th parallel. But beware: you'll face shifting ice, mercurial weather, and polar bears if you take this path less traveled.
Start in the Grand Canyon and wander up to Moab, Utah, with some moonlit camping and excellent mountain biking along the way.
The route from Jackson, Wyoming, to Glacier National Park, Montana packs in five national parks and plenty of watering holes.
A Southern Colorado loop where you can rough it in a yurt and throw one back in Durango.
This Olympic Peninsula loop in Washington is a water-lover's dream—take your pick of waterfalls, rivers, beaches, and lakes. And don't forget the seafood.
Take it to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula and find some of the best fishing, paddling, and moonshine-sampling of your life.
This road trip from New Orleans to Florida featuring lazy days feasting on the freshest seafood, sandy camping, and pristine paddling.
We put together a bracket of our 64 favorite towns in the country. See how your pick stacked up.
The winners of the $10,000 Outside Adventure Grant have set off on a journey of a lifetime—a 2500-mile hitching odyssey across China on the ancient Silk Road.
A behind the scenes look at the 2014 GoPro Mountain Games. …
Australia's Greater Blue Mountains offer an unforgettable view just four hours from Sydney
These images, from some of Outside's favorite photographers, will make you want to pack your bags and get lost in adventure.
These images, from some of Outside's favorite photographers, will make you want to pack your bags and get lost in adventure.
After 20 days and more than one million votes since the start of our 2014 Best Towns Tournament, we're finally down to the final four. With less than two weeks left, we take a minute to weigh in on what makes each of the finalists so special.
Dream all you want about your adventure bucket list, but isn't it better to get right out there and start ticking off boxes? Let these trips be your inspiration—or your exact blueprint.
Nature versus concrete at its best. Filmmaker Joanny Causse traveled for two years to collect the footage in Country of Contrasts. From hours and hours of video, Causse was able to illustrate one of his favorite things about the U.S.; its stark contrasts. …
Travel to the best slopes of Switzerland in style—a newly crowdfunded sleep-in bus will take you there
What do you do when you leave work in the evening? If you’re Alastair Humphreys. you head out on a “microadventure.” The 2012 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year paid a visit to Kammok and joined the staff for a night under the…
Incredible timelapse video of photographer John Shellington’s road trip through the Western United States. A collection of images from 2 months in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, and Alberta, Canada.
According to AVP Pro and Olympian April Ross
Fly Fishing for Bonefish in the BahamasBy Will Rice
The deep-dish pizza might get all the love, but there's plenty to keep you active in the windy city. Here's our guide to the best of it.
“I was the first athlete to intentionally move here to train.”
Part 3 of a stunning collection of timelapses from Martin Heck and Timestorm Films shot across New Zealand over four months. The crew traveled to iconic places like Tongariro National Park, Taranaki National Park, Lake Tekapo, Canterburry High Country, Lake Wakatipu and Skipper Canyon to capture the…
Ravaged by historic flooding, the European nation is struggling through crisis. But behind the destruction is a gem of a country well worth a second look.
The captain has turned off the fasten seatbelt sign and you may now walk freely around the cabin
Last September, a trekking company's guided trip through the wilds of Papua New Guinea was shattered when machete-wielding men attacked the native porters, killing two on the spot and injuring many more. The motive appeared to be robbery, but Carl Hoffman knew something else was at work—ancient tribal patterns of violence that, he knew, would inevitably be avenged
A 36-hour door-to-door adventure in Carbondale, Colorado with one simple goal: Bike from town, hike up a mountain, float the river home. Nothing crazy, just a weekend spent enjoying life. From Carl Zoch and Sarah Uhl.
Yosemite National Park offers arguably the most scenic hiking in the country. The only challenge? Picking which trail to hike.
Terlingua, Texas, is a magnet for drifters, dropouts, and raft guides—but not murderers. So when a popular bar owner turned up dead after a night of hard drinking, the tiny town found itself facing some very tough questions.
An Introduction to Fly-Fishing for Brown Trout in Colorado by Will Rice
In the winter of 2014, three friends set out on a self supported ride, looking for nothing more than a truly genuine experience. The goal: to circumnavigate one of the most wonderful and wicked mountain ranges in the world, the Huayhuash, by bicycle. An Official Selection from the…
Plant-power yourself to your next destination.
The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a lawless no-man's-land where violence and suffering rage, and no one has it harder than the region's 21 million Pashtun women. Their mode of rebellion? Short-verse poems called landays.
Caroline Ciavaldini and James Pearson—The North Face’s premiere rock climbing couple—met on a rock face in Antalya, Turkey; they named their story Once Upon A Climb.
“Portland is a haven for professional distance runners.”
The climbing season may not be closed for business just yet this season, but it may be tough to convince the mountain's most important climbers to carry on.
The volcanic remains at the heart of Aniakchak National Monument—the least visited site in the national park system—are a trippy mishmash of postapocalyptic cinder cones, hardened lava, and flame-colored walls. The only catch? Doing it right involves days of trekking and rafting through some of the planet’s toughest, most bear-heavy terrain.
The only thing better than adventuring in one of our country's national parks is doing so for free. And, it just so happens that as part of the annual National Park Week, put on by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, admission to all these wilderness areas and historic sites will be on the house this weekend. Many parks will even offer free entrance for the week's festivities, which run from April 19-27.
Tuareg nomads have stormed out of the desert again, threatening a return to culture war in the Sahara’s legendary lost city. Patrick Symmes on the rebel alliance, and the fire next time.
For the first time, armed police will patrol Everest Base Camp. just don’t expect them to curb the growing conflicts.
You might know Nick Symmonds as the 5-time USATF 800-meter champion. Or as the 2013 world champion who dedicated his silver medal to his gay and lesbian friends as a protest against Russian laws. Or as the runner who posted a nude photo on Twitter.
Whether you’re hoping to PR or party over 26.2 miles, consider these 10 events.
A stunning collection of timelpases from Martin Heck and Timestorm Films shot across New Zealand. The crew traveled New Zealand for four months and hit spots like Fjordland NP, Mount Cook NP and Arthurs Pass NP, Mavora Lakes and Lake Ohau.
The Rhaetian Railway gives access to some of the best singletrack in the Swiss Alps. This short from Film von Draussen gives a new perspective on mountain biking. …
Salvation Mountain and its creator Leonard Knight have appeared in several movies and maybe most notably in Into The Wild. For more than 30 years, Knight poured his soul and his passion into Salvation Mountain, which stands tall in the desert outside Niland, California. A tribute to the man and…
Growing up in Hollywood prepared Torres for the biggest red carpet event of all: the Olympics.
