Your Guide to the Ultimate Adventure Truck
The 101 on the best vehicles, how to use them, and what to kit them out with. Plus a little stoke to help you get started.
The Skills
Including which work best in certain situations and what they'll cost you
Leaving the highway behind? Here's how to stay safe when driving gets adventurous.
Bryan Rogala gives some quick advice for driving your adventure vehicle through the muck
Bring less than you think you'll need, and put it back where you found it
On our second visit to New Mexico–based Tactical Application Vehicles, we take some epic rigs off-road
Just as with mountain biking, it's important to pick the most efficient, safest way through technical terrain
Eric Fisher is best known as a professional football player, but the Michigan native is also a serious outdoorsman
The Inspiration
The Clean Cruiser Project's goal is to drive to Panama in a 1982 BJ42 Land Cruiser that runs on biodiesel
Learn about the different types of adventure vehicles and basic upgrades for your stock rig.
If your budget is somewhere between $3,000 and $1.5 million, there's a rig here for you
Or: How to live in a vehicle long-term with your significant other
How our writer turned a midsize pickup into the ultimate adventure home
The next generation of adventure vehicles will be unstoppable, off-road beasts
Roomy, safe, fast, and affordable, full-size trucks are the ultimate adventure enablers
Denver linebacker Von Miller and Kansas City left tackle Eric Fisher are both avid outdoorsmen. So we brought them to New Mexico to go head-to-head in fishing, archery, and cooking. Here's how it went down.
The Rigs
Real-world experience in the hands of an expert who drives the Ranger off-road every single day
Plus three tips on how to navigate the off-road paradise that is Overland Expo
Here's a guarantee: if you show up to Overland Expo West, you'll of course see some incredible Jeeps and Toyota Tacomas. But the real way to take in this annual gathering in Flagstaff, Arizona, is to walk past the cliché Sprinter van build-outs and keep your eyes peeled for the trucks, vans, and other four-wheel-drive campers that are one of a kind. We spent all weekend tracking down some of these gems.
Rigs for going far, far afield and taking all your gear with you
Step into the pricey, aspirational world of custom-built adventure rigs with Tactical Application Vehicles
‘The Baja Box’ documents pro snowboarder Austin Smith building out a box truck in Baja.
Ashley and Richard Giordano quit their jobs, sold their belongings, rented their condo, and hit the road in a Toyota pickup
The Accessories
Thinking about designing your own rig? Here are some tips from a pro.
The ABR E-Z Deflator is the cheapest, easiest way to improve your ride off-road
Ratchet straps, bungee cords, a tarp, and some organization required
Investing in the right truck is good. Investing in some quality add-ons is even better. (Spoiler alert: It's not gonna be cheap.)
Turns out the football superstar is also an extremely skilled archer—and we have the footage to prove it