Category: Trips and Tours
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The Very Best Destination for Your First Solo Trip
Choosing the destination well for your first solo trip is important, especially as a female traveler or fellow free spirit. No pressure, but it can make the difference between having a great time alone or getting home safely. Or it might be your only solo trip ever. Best make it rock. Here’s the #1 Trailheaders…
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Best Road Trips
Whether you want to plan your road trip route or drive it on the fly, here are the most unique, top three Trailheaders-approved road trips for solo female travelers (and fellow free spirits) in the United States.
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Top Tips for Visiting Manzanar National Historic Site
For travelers on eastern California’s Highway 395, Manzanar National Historic Site provides a crucial look into what happens when nationalism goes so far that it contradicts the nation’s founding principles. Once an internment camp and now a nationally-protected educational site catering to tour groups and road trippers, at Manzanar we explore liberty and justice deprived…
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Hiking and Road Tripping Hwy 395 Along the Eastern Sierras (Part I)
Any solo female traveler can tell you, it’s easy to fall in love on the road. Maybe with a sexy stranger, maybe with the #2 combo at a roadside burger stand, maybe with a whole new city. Yes, it’s easy to fall in love ON the road, but traveling on Highway 395 in eastern California…
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What to Bring Hiking in Colorado: Absolute Basics
Some people like to “hike light” with just what they can carry in their pockets. Others might be carrying enough for three days instead of three hours! Here is a guide to help you decide what to bring on a day hike in Colorado. There are the top three MUSTS and four more extremely, potentially…
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What to Do on Lake Erie: Peace & Conservation at Put-In-Bay, Ohio
Road-tripping on I-90 along Lake Erie between Chicago, Illinois and Buffalo, New York, there’s a place that is both peaceful and playful. It’s educational and entertaining. It’s vintage yet vivacious. It’s South Bass Island, home to Put-In-Bay township, Ohio. Whether a stop on a cross-country road trip or a destination of its own, it’s a…
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Traveling to Denver, Colorado to Hike: A Basic Guide
It’s no surprise that people want to travel to Colorado to hike. After all, the Rocky Mountains are world-renowned all year long, not just for snow skiing in the winter. People often say, in person or online, “I want to come to Colorado and hike. Where should I go?” Well, that’s a bit like asking…
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Don’t Be Soar-y For Not Knowing About Canada Day & Other Things I Learned In Montreal & Toronto
“Wow, these Canadians are so patriotic! There are flags and festivities all over the place,” I remarked to my friend as we surveyed Victoria, British Columbia from the ferry dock. It was 2003, my first time to Canada, and I was clueless about international travel. I was so clueless, in fact, that I didn’t even…
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Volcanoes and Cliff Dwellings Road Trip: Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico
How about a road trip south from Denver to southern Colorado and northern New Mexico? This route is often overlooked in favor of “heading west” from Denver over the Continental Divide, but the scenery south is no less spectacular, albeit in a different way. On this road trip, alternate between volcanoes and cliff dwellings in…
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Tour the Allman Brothers Band House in Macon, Georgia
The house is big, but the legend is bigger. Visit the Allman Brothers Band (ABB) Museum in Macon, Georgia, and you’ll see for yourself. It’s called The Big House, after all. Band members and their significant others rented it in 1970 with some of their earliest proceeds after signing with Macon-based Capricorn Records. The Big…
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Hiking in Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
If you’re stationed in Warner Robins or otherwise find yourself in Middle Georgia, there’s a great place to hike in the footsteps of indigenous people dating back 17,000 years: Ocmulgee National Monument. This free-entry area offers a natural and historical experience with plenty of parking, gentle trails and ample signage. SPOILER ALERT: what you’ll be…