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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
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. …
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
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…
Action-oriented alternatives to get you through the winter
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.
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
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
Not visiting the in-laws? Have an adventurous Turkey Day in one of these destinations.
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…
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.” …
North Face co-founder Doug Tompkins has an ambitious goal: to donate 12 national parks in Chile and Argentina
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Presenting the best trips in one of the hemisphere's hottest travel regions.
Fulfill that childhood fantasy and book one of these high-end treehouses, from Costa Rica to Italy to San Francisco
Some ski resorts are already spinning lifts. Here’s where to ski and ride at the beginning of the winter.
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
Tiny homes aren't just for hipsters in Portland, OR. Filmmaker Andy Ballard provides an insight into the beach hut lifestyle at Portland in Dorset, England. Most of these huts have been enjoyed for decades at this idyllic spot by the sea on the south coast of England,…
Presenting blueprints for the best way to beat post-summer blues
With Airbnb and Yelp already operating in Cuba's capital, will hordes of American tourists sipping McDaiquiris ruin the very authenticity that draws us to the rebel island nation? Allow us to explain why you should go now—before Cuba changes, while it changes, and because you will change it yourself.