
A modern road trip along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Missouri and Illinois reveals forts, mounds, river towns, outdoor adventures, and quiet surprises. Check out the story and photos in the digital edition of Terrain Magazine!
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A modern road trip along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Missouri and Illinois reveals forts, mounds, river towns, outdoor adventures, and quiet surprises. Check out the story and photos in the digital edition of Terrain Magazine!

A springtime road trip along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which stretches 444 miles across the Deep South, reveals fascinating historic sites and fun woodland adventures. Come along for the ride at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area makes for a surprisingly adventurous destination on the Pennsylvania-New Jersey state line. Check out the story at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

At this national historical park at the junction of three Southern states, you can explore the paths of bison, Native Americans, and Daniel Boone. With camping, hiking, and stunning views, this is a hidden outdoor gem in the Appalachian Mountains. Read the story at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

Campers and RVs require time-intensive maintenance and trip planning. But owning a rig doesn’t have to stifle your adventures. Here are five tips for spending more time exploring on your next camper trip. Check out the list at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

Exploring the Remote Eastern Shore of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. From wild Assateague Island to Harriet Tubman NHP and several state parks, there’s a lot to see on this forgotten peninsula between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Learn more at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

With mountain biking and camping at Pocahontas State Park, plus famous historic sites like Jamestown and Colonial National Historic Park, a road trip stop in and around Virginia’s capital city offers a fun break from the I-95 grind… Learn more at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

On a camper trip to this Kentucky national park, we discover much more than the typical cave tours: forested hiking trails, mountain bike flow trails, a gravel rail trail, scenic river paddling, a lantern-toting adventure, and a wacky actor from an episode of Breaking Bad. Check out the story at Blue Ridge Outdoors!

We started in August. A leisurely three weeks of adventuring with hiking shoes in the truck, kayaks and mountain bikes on the roof, and our new travel trailer hitched up behind. Before the camper, we never considered the Blue Ridge Parkway to be a destination, itself. But now we could set up basecamps and explore outward. Check out the story and pics at Duct Tape Diaries!

Adventures and mishaps from our first year of camper life, with six trips and about four months spent on the road. Plus, the lessons we carried over from our former road life in tent compounds (not like a cult). Read the story on the Camping World blog!