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You can thank filmmaker John Duncan for creating this visual bucket list of Scotland's wilderness. From the Isle of Skye to Duncansby Bay, Duncan followed the golden light of dawn and dusk across the country with his camera and drone. Duncan features seventeen of his favorite escapes…
You can read about wild and remote places all you want, but nothing compares to experiencing them yourself. That's what filmmaker Hugo Perrin and the Fokus Outdoors crew realized during a trip with Quark Expeditions to Antarctica—their research about the wildlife and landscape of the southernmost point…
The 60 towns that will go head-to-head in a winner-takes-all contest to find the best place to live in 2016
All the beauty, all the adventure, none of the tourists
Whether you’re after a tropical boat ride or an isolated hike through the mountains, now is the time to plan your ultimate 2016 trip and pack your bags.
Addiction comes in many forms. For Jay Valley, it manifests itself by way of Atlantic salmon fishing on the Népisiguit River in New Brunswick, Canada. It means being on the river by the break of day to lay stake in the best pools and staying put until the sun sets.
Best Towns 2016: Prize Details and Official Rules
"Take your worst turbulence experience in an airliner and make it three to five times worse. I wondered if I’d stay in one piece."
Hidden in the Jura Mountains, a sub-alpine mountain range along the France-Switzerland border, are stunning sections of singletrack. To share his experience of riding these trails, filmmaker Joonas Vinnari rigged up a camera and drone—the controller strapped to his chest—and self-captured the incredible footage seen in this…
When we think of a small village on the Iceland coast, we think of a place like Vík. From sitting at the base of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which rests on top of the Katla volcano, to boasting an incredible display of the Northern Lights, Vík is quintessential Iceland, and it…
Baja: The ultimate weekend escape. And it’s way easier than you think to get here.
You can hang in Cancun with the rest of the world, or head to one of these less well-known spots for a real ocean adventure.
Everything you need for 24 hours on the road
Between Earth and Sky is an inspiring and visceral short film shot and directed by Australian filmmaker Benjamin Dowie in the French Alps while adventuring with his good friend and fellow filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay. During this same adventure, Le Lay produced Walk the Ridge, a short…
You’ll need fewer pints up here than you would at sea level
No, you don't need to be in Canada or Alaska to go cat skiing. And yes, it’s really good down here.
From epic skiing in Antarctica to a lazy beer-fueled canoe trip in North Carolina, these are the best places to visit this year
For the last year, Juliana Linder and Richmond Hollen, the couple behind the popular Instagram feed @homesweetvan, have been building up their Mercedes Sprinter in preparation for diving headfirst into the #Vanlife lifestyle. This March, the couple will leave their corporate jobs and hit the road full time, in one…
Filmmaker Nessim Stevenson traveled to Mongolia for three months in 2015. He put together this short video of his trip, which serves as a beautiful reminder of how incredible the country is. You can follow Stevenson's adventures on Facebook and Instagram.
You don’t need to be in a big city to drink quality, locally-sourced booze. More and more craft distilleries are popping up in mountain towns.
Filmmaker Milo Zanecchia spent 90 days traveling from Switzerland to Mongolia in a Land Rover Defender and a Toyota Land Cruiser, and documented the entire journey. Latitude 45 – Switzerland to Mongolia is an incredible look at the trip, filled with stunning visuals…
It's the perfect time of year for the quintessential American road trip
A hotel should be more than just a place to sleep. These new ski-town lodges go above and beyond.
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
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. …
The only problem you’ll have in the planet’s ultimate adventure mecca is deciding what to do first
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.
Everything you need to know to crash in the backcountry (in a good way)
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
SPACE is a travel film from Gnarly Bay and Howl Collective that serves as a reminder to make the most of every day and treasure the planet we call home. …
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…
We teamed up with Instagram to determine the most-photographed national parks of 2015. Here we present our favorite images from the 25 parks that appear most frequently in your photo feed.
Instagram readers share epic outings for the new year
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.
You can find deals even in this pricey segment of an expensive sport—it just takes a bit of strategic planning.
Capital is venturing out of Silicon Valley to the nation's coolest towns
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.
The advantage of being a van owner is that new adventures are always nearby, even if things don't go as planned. Julien Roussin, of Go-Van, found some of his own earlier this fall when the ocean failed to produce waves on a 10-day surf…
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.
Chile Nativo is an adventure travel company based out of Puerto Natales, Chile, which means they have prime access to the best of Patagonia. Outside featured them in this year’s Best of Travel because of the epic trips they lead, like The Last Frontier Horseback Ride, which includes 11 days…
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.
Turns out skiing the Alps isn't as expensive as you thought
Unlimited access for big-tired bikes
In our ongoing Weekly Escape series, we aim to transport you from your desk to an incredible place in two minutes or less. This week: the Australian Alps. Filmmaker Ben Coope grew up skiing and snowboarding in Australia and looks forward to visiting the high country each year when temperatures drop. His most…
Not visiting the in-laws? Have an adventurous Turkey Day in one of these destinations.
Hang Gliding Interlaken is a short film from Brent Kostak about his time spent in the famous Swiss city of Interlaken. Given the city's storied history in the world of flying sports, Kostak decided to try hang gliding, and said the experience was “complete freedom.” …
Everything—from our favorite rugged suitcase to the world's most comfortable shoes—except the lift ticket
What do a carry-on Moscow Mule cocktail kit and a flashlight-size survival tool have in common? They both seem like luxuiries—untill you really need 'em.
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
Travel feels the most glamorous when you’re not physically traveling. So it follows that the nicest thing you could give someone is a way to escape the dreariness of airports, nonreclining seats, and sad airplane food.
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.
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.