Longer and harder trips: multi-day treks, high passes, expedition cruises, sea kayak crossings and via ferrata routes. Each guide gives distance, ascent, grade, the passable months, guide fees and the fitness a route assumes. Written for travelers picking an objective they will train for rather than book on impulse.
Expedition-grade trips broken down by distance, elevation gain.
Permits, group gear, meals, gratuities, evacuation coverage — what a guided trip price typically includes, what it usually leaves out, and how to compare two quotes fairly.
The Buffalo is 135 free-flowing miles through the Ozarks — America's first national river, managed by the Park Service since 1972 — and its float season is set by rainfall, not by calendar.
Contour lines are the one map feature that tells you what a trail actually feels like underfoot. Here's the mechanism behind them, straight from the agencies that make and manage the maps.
Permits, crossings, cold-water gear, and how to plan multi-day paddling among Lake Superior's 21 islands.
How the country's oldest long-distance trail breaks into logical weekend and weeklong chunks.
Reservations, the ten-mile trail, tribal rules, and the heat math on the Southwest's famous turquoise water.