The woman travelled across India from Ellora Caves to Hampi and the Northeast for three months on her own and crowned Varanasi as the best place.

Lighten your pack this summer—skip the sleeping bag and carry one of our favorite ultralight backpacking quilts instead.

When a cougar mauled a 4-year-old boy on a popular trail at Olympic National Park last summer, park rangers described a ...

For more than seven decades, Kemsley dedicated himself to helping people experience that connection. As the founder of ...

German backpacker Simone Strobel’s body was found near a Lismore caravan park in 2005. Almost 20 years on, charges have ...

The Friends of the Dillon Ranger District is hosting a free beginner backpacking clinic Thursday, June 25, at the Patagonia store in Breckenridge. The event goes from 5-7 p.m. and will be led by ...

When he founded Backpacker in 1973, Bill Kemsley wanted to give hikers a few new heroes. He couldn’t have imagined that he would become one of them. One morning in 1963, Kemsley was finishing ...

A San Diego man is recovering at home after a grizzly bear broke his arm on May 28 in Glacier National Park. Daniel Crago, 32, said he was coming down the Grinnell Glacier Trail across a ...

Gianna Merian went viral after sharing her experience of budget backpacking through Indonesia's Komodo Islands Courtesy of Gianna Merian Gianna Merian shared her viral experience of budget backpacking ...

One woman was left speechless after arriving at her accommodations during a recent trip through Southeast Asia — an experience that quickly went from dream adventure to unexpected reality. Gianna ...

“I’m walking an outline of the United States,” begins each Instagram video featuring a bearded 22-year-old backpacker. “My name is Jack Kadis. Here’s yesterday.” There are now more than 120 videos ...