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July 2009 |
Summer Road Trips To get you out the door and rolling this summer, we scoured the country for those lost stretches of blacktop where you can still find real adventure.   |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Ross Purnell |
Fly Fishing the Roaring Fork What you need to know about a fly fishing vacation in one of the American West's most fertile rivers. |
Outside
April 2006 |
Adrenaline Nation Secret instructions on how to plot an escape from your hardwired grind to wide-open adventure in North America. |
Outside
July 2003 |
Land o' the Free Our ten favorite stretches of American blacktop come with all the essential summer pleasures. So pick your pavement and go. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty |
Outside
June 2004
Annette McGivney |
National Park Secret Trips Locals' no-tell favorites, from Acadia to Yellowstone to wildest Alaska--along with a roundup of dream towns nearby, the places to eat, drink, and dance after a day or three in backcountry heaven. |
Outside
September 2007
Nyberg et al. |
City Slicker Escape from New York (and nine other big cities) with these 40 fast adventures |
Outside
April 2010
Steven Rinella |
Go Big or Go Home Cruise ships and wildlife buses? The tourist staples miss the point of Alaska: It's the last real place to find an epic, crowd-free adventure on American soil. |
Outside
May 2010 |
The Best State Parks Follow our guide to America's wild and relatively untrampled state parks, national lakeshores, and recreation areas. |
Outside
August 2007
Cameron Walker |
Blowout The removal of 47-foot high Marmot Dam, on Oregon's Sandy River, will renew 11.5 miles of quality Class IV whitewater and 100 miles of steelhead habitat. Taking down a dam used to require an act of Congress. Now it's just good business. |
High on Adventure
April 2000
Lee Juillerat |
Rafting Oregon's Owyhee River |
Wild West
Gary L. Blackwood |
Klondike Fever Known as 'Lying George' for his many false strikes, George Washington Carmack and two Indian friends found a real nugget in 1896 that set off a fabled gold rush in Canada. |
Outside
September 2002 |
Fast Getaways You'll find endless rewards in just 48 hours of freedom. We've got 50 close-to-home adventures right here. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Tony Huegel |
The Idaho Fishing Trip: Freedom of the Road 2007 South-central Idaho is the perfect place to fuel a Rocky Mountain tour with bait and tackle. |
Outside
August 2004 |
America's Top Dream Towns Seeking an underpopulated--and undiscovered--slice of paradise? Drop in to any of our 20 adventure towns, from burly Haines, Alaska, to serene Cedar Key, Florida, where you'll find cush, affordable base camps for spontaneous long weekends or a lifetime of wild fun. |
Outside
June 2007 |
New American Road Trip Cars are faster, highways are better, and there's cool stuff just about everywhere. Stop sitting on those vacation days and get out there. Our five two-week loops will get you rolling. |
Outside
July 2004
Grayson Schaffer |
Find Your Flow We've zeroed in on the best blue-ribbon river trips in North America--from remote rapids to meandering flatwater--for getting wet, wild, and recharged. Also recommended gear. |
Outside
September 2001
Mike Grudowski |
Welcome to Your New Backyard Want instant access to the Big Outdoors -- trails, rivers, wild shores, just minutes from home -- without compromising your livelihood? Then check out these ten towns on the verge of paradise, where you don't have to ditch it all to have it all. |
Outside
December 2001
Peter Heller |
Pourover Somewhere at the bottom of the deepest canyon on earth flows the Cotahuasi� -- a long, roiling ribbon of whitewater, a river so old and dangerous that you never master it, you just surrender to it. And pay respect to its ghosts... |
Outside
August 2003
Patrick Symmes |
River Impossible Everybody loves the Klamath. Everybody wants a piece of it. And they're willing to go to war to get it. |
Smithsonian
August 2007
Robert M. Poole |
Fish Story Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists. |
Outside
June 2010 |
Weekend Escapes for $500 or Less A list of weekend escapes, from one side of the country to the other, that won't break any budgets. |
Outside
July 2006
Lewon & Lisagor |
Summer Escapes A varied menu of weekend adventures, whether you're looking for epic bragging rights, a quiet escape for two, an easy-to-reach nexus for a group gathering, or a wild road trip. |
Outside
October 2009
Justin Nyberg |
Southwest Adventures: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado The last thing you expect to see next to 14,000-foot peaks is a 30-square-mile chunk of Sahara-like desert. The unlikely juxtaposition makes Great Sand Dunes National Park one of the most remarkable spots in the country. |
Outside
May 2003
Tim Neville |
Latitude Adjustment Ten more ways to frolic in the far north's summer sun |
Adventure
November 2005
Robert Earle Howells |
Adventure Travel 2006: The Sports Trips Atlas The best locations around the world for skiing, rafting, mountaineering, diving, and mountain biking. |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2007
Linda Ballou |
Finding the Real Gold in Costa Rica Costa Rica can bring new discoveries or enjoyed by sitting back and breathing in the landscape. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Susan Tweit |
Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT. |
High on Adventure
August 2008
Les Furnanz |
Lake Oswego... Oregon's Hike-Oar-Bike Paradise Plan your own visit to Lake Oswego soon, and bring your walking shoes, a bicycle, and a canoe or kayak to sample the town and its natural offerings. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2006
Janice Lovelace |
Eagles Soar A great place to find Bald Eagles in the winter is to head to northern Washington state, to the Nooksack River valley and the Skagit River valley. |
Outside
February 2002
William T. Vollmann |
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters... |
AskMen.com
September 25, 2003
Harry Marks |
Top 10: Saltwater Fishing Destinations Take a look at these 10 hotspots to get some ideas -- they're all worth opening your tackle box for. |
High on Adventure
February 2010
Lee Juillerat |
Snowshoeing the Onion River The Onion River, legend says, was named by Paul Bunyan, the legendary logger. |
Outside
June 2009
Tim Sohn |
Gold Fish Fishermen in Alaska's Bristol Bay are fighting against the presence of Pebble Mine, a non-renewable resource that would pollute the waters of the bay. |
High on Adventure
April 2003
Robyn Gorman |
Ducky Heaven Who knew that a trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River would bring a new verb into my vocabulary. "Duckying", as in "to ducky," means to run a river in a rubber kayak -- by oneself. Duckying, I discovered, is an incredible adrenaline rush. |
High on Adventure
June 2009
Vicki Andersen |
Northern Oregon Coast: Lewis and Clark Meet the Pacific I have gasped my way up 164 stairs (but who's counting?), and it was definitely worth it. At the top of the Astoria Column on Coxcomb Hill, I am at the highest point in the very northwestern tip of Oregon, and the view is simply astounding. |
Outside
June 2010
Abe Streep |
Weekend Escapes for $500 or Less A lifelong fisherman gets his first taste of the hard stuff. |
High on Adventure
December 2008
Lee Juillerat |
Northwest Hot Springs Fell the soothing, healing, deliciously toasty waters at Lave Hot Springs in eastern Idaho. |
Outside
May 2005
Will Rizzo |
Fly Right Trophy trout and salmon are only part of the catch at these luxe western lodges. |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2007
Bart Allen Berry |
Kayak Fishing and Osama Bin Laden Kayaks have become so versatile that you can surf it, tour on the open sea or any estuary or river mouth with 6 inches of water and you can paddle out to sea wherever the fish are. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Bill Donahue |
The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river... |
Outside
June 2004
Mark Sundeen |
Dry Run on the River of Sorrows The Dolores used to be one of the mightiest whitewater rivers in the West. Then politics and dry weather got in the way. But neither drought nor dam nor partisan bickering can stop the author from floating (and walking and driving) the entire course of the Rio de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. |
Outside
April 2009
Wells Tower |
The Tuber Having constructed the greatest flotation device mankind has ever known, the author embarks on an ill-conceived, possibly insane crossing of alligator-infested north Florida. |
Outside
March 2007 |
Best Trips 2007 Whether you want to raft an unknown Himalayan river or link a few Colorado peaks in your own backyard, here are 30 adventures to stoke your wanderlust. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008 |
3 More Classic American Road Trips: War, Wilderness and Whitewater! Road trips for indulging sport, music, and history interests |
Finefishing Saltwater
Louis Bignami |
Saving Salar Atlantic Salmon need our help |
Outside
May 2007
Ian Frazier |
Yo, Frank! In the waters off JFK airport in New York, you can land a few big fish with Captain Frank, a guide who matches his passion striper for striper and knows why fishing is connected to everything. |
Real Travel Adventures
December 2007
Linda Ballou |
Something for Everyone in the New - Old West The Spotted Horse Ranch near Jackson Hole, Wyoming offers lots of fun for all ages and degrees of fitness. |
Outside
November 2001
Tim Cahill |
Floating the Mighty Free and Easy A flotilla of stouthearted men and women confronts hissing snakes, weird rocks, flat water, and the greatest mud in the west; or, What I Did on my Summer Vacation... |
Outside
June 2010
Abe Streep |
Flying High A lifelong fisherman gets his first taste of the hard stuff, and other vacation tales. |
