Midwest Active and Adventure Vacations

Midwest Active and Adventure Travel Guide

• Midwest Overview
• Midwest Hotels
• Midwest Attractions
• Midwest Feature Articles
• Midwest Vacation Rentals

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Active and Adventure Guide
• Biking
• Caving and Canyoneering
• Climbing
• Hiking and Backpacking
• Paddling
• Skiing
• Snow Sports
• Family Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fishing
  • Horses and Riding
  • Nature
  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Active and Adventure Destinations In Midwest

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN
  
• Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, WI
  
• Black Hills National Forest, SD
  
• Custer State Park, SD
  
• Door County, WI
  
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, IN
  
• Isle Royale National Park, MI
  
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge, MI
  
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND
  
• Wind Cave National Park, SD
  

Travel Guides In Midwest

• Chicago, IL
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
• Black Hills, Badlands, and Mount Rushmore, SD
  • Family Guide
• Mount Rushmore, SD
  • Family Guide
• Sandusky and Lake Erie Islands, OH
  • Family Guide
• Bloomington, IN
  • Family Guide
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Black Hills National Forest, SD
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, IN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Pere Marquette River, MI
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Wind Cave National Park, SD
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide

United States Active and Adventure Subregions

• Mid-Atlantic
• Midwest
• Mountain West
• Northeast
• Pacific Coast
• Southeast
• Southwest

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

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Midwest Active and Adventure Destinations

• Indiana
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Wisconsin

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Feature Articles

• March Active/Adventure Travel Guide
  
• The Thrill of the Skill
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  Snow Sports
• All-American
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  Remote trips right here at home
• Best Trips of 2001: Island Escapes
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  Island Escapes
• Wilderness Therapy
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  Lose (and find) yourself in the great wide open

Trip Ideas

• Wisconsin's Wild Side: Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin
  GORP's Top 10 Autumn Escapes: Fall's Best Forests
• Backyard Playgrounds
  Chicago
• Best Sand Playground: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore (Michigan)
  America's Best Beaches

Practical Advice

• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  
• A Whitewater Rafting Primer
  
• A Sea Kayaking Primer
  
• A Trekking Primer
  
• Be the Sag Wagon
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  How to pull off a bike tour on your own two wheels.

GORPTravel Trips

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  Montana: Big Sky Family: Cowboys, Canyons, & Campfires
  Austin Lehman Adventures
  from $2298, 6 days
  Austin-Lehman has been guiding parents and kids on adventure vacations in Montana for over 20 years. If there's a formula for family fun, we've...
  
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  Black Hills Multi-sport
  The World Outdoors
  from $2198, 6 days
  Criss-cross the path of General George Armstrong Custer's 1874 Black Hills Expedition on foot, bicycle and horseback on this Black Hills multi-sport...
  
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  Canoeing the Upper Missouri River - Lewis and Clark's Wilderness
  Big Wild Adventures
  from $2200, 8 days
  The upper Missouri - A gentle river, flowing mostly through wilderness, little-changed since Lewis & Clark. ...
  
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  Women's Adventures - Summertime in Door Country
  Adventures in Good Company
  from $1625, 7 days
  With its exceptional diversity of cultural attractions and natural beauty, Door County has to be one of the best kept secrets in the Midwest. Blessed...
  
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  Dakota Dreamin'
  Timberline Adventures
  from $3300, 12 days
  From the Missouri River, as it carves its course through the center of the Dakotas, effectively dividing east from west, to the badlands and rugged...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Complete Gear Archives: Paddling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things paddling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Cycling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things related to cycling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things climbing.
• How I Came to Know and Love the Backcountry
  The Basics of Telemark Skiing

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Blitzing the Backcountry
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  Turn your winter fitness routine into a brand-new adventure
• The Rowbike
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  Video
• Saddle Up
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  Spring is here. Time to wipe the cobwebs off your bike, oil your chain, and kick your fitness into a new gear. Here's how.

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Attractions

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The Drake
140 East Walton Place
Chicago, IL 60611-1501 Map

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Courtyard Bloomington
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Bloomington, IN 47403 Map

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Drury Inn Union Station
201 South 20th Street
St. Louis, MO 63103 Map

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