Backroads

All Backroads itineraries have been carefully researched by our team of 23 Trip Specialists and 9 Regional Managers to ensure you experience the very best way to explore the region. And before your trip, the routes are once again tested by our Trip Leaders—each and every season.

Backroads Adventure Travel - Put your world in motion.

We simply can’t imagine a better way to immerse yourself in the life of a region, to explore hidden corners and appreciate nuances while enjoying the benefits and enormous satisfaction of traveling under your own power. These are experiences you cannot have behind the wheel of a car, or on a train or a tour bus, or in a few excursions from a cruise ship or a secluded resort. Active travel with Backroads is, at its heart, a way of connecting more authentically with the world. Sure, Backroads provides amazing leaders, superb accommodations and meals, and opportunities you could never arrange on your own. But all of our comprehensive planning and support is aimed at something far simpler: bringing you the immediate, highly personal satisfaction of discovering a new world on your own terms.

Whether you choose a Backroads biking, walking, multisport or Insider trip, you’ll travel at your own pace and enjoy the camaraderie, impeccable service and expert leadership that are now legendary among past guests—all reasons why Backroads is recognized as one of the world’s top travel companies by Travel + Leisure magazine. Whatever your ability and wherever you venture in the Backroads world—whether you choose to bike amid glacier-carved peaks in the Canadian Rockies, walk to a 14th-century temple in Bhutan or raft on a Costa Rican river—you’ll travel at your own pace in the company of talented and dedicated trip leaders. With Backroads, you’ll discover the heart and soul of your destination firsthand. Savor a cappuccino in the home of a Tuscan artist. Stroll with a van Gogh expert in Provence. Learn the finer points of sheep shearing in New Zealand. Or engage in the ritual of drinking mate with gauchos in Argentina.

All Biking and Multisport Trips include use of a fully equipped, custom-designed Backroads Titanium bike. Choose either upright or drop handlebars. Backroads is also unique among travel companies in manufacturing our own line of custom-designed kids’ bikes. For the younger ones we offer the Burley d’Lite trailer and Burley Piccolo trailercycle.

Backroads is the only company that distinguishes between Premiere Inns and Casual Inns, making it easy for you to choose a trip that suits your personal style. Backroads provide an honest assessment of each hotel giving you an assurance of quality you can trust.