ABOUT ADVENTURE INDEX

• Learn: a guide for every sport, from your first day to expert: skills by level, grades, safety, and labelled photos of the gear.
• Discover: 447 researched destination guides and maps of more than 149,000 spots (crags, trails, surf breaks, ski areas, dive sites, canyons, race venues), plus race maps for ultramarathons and adventure races.
• Plan: a trip finder, road-trip planner, season calendars, and the Adventure Score, which rates every US town on how much quality outdoor sport is close by.
• Gear & news: a trending gear list for adults and kids, and each sport’s news, films and podcasts from the publications that cover it.

Places and spots come from open data, with the source credited on the site: OpenStreetMap, OpenBeta, the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, Recreation.gov, Wikidata and others (see the data licences in our terms). Destination guides, race calendars and gear lists are researched by hand from official sources, with a source link kept for every fact, and they’re re-checked on a schedule: race calendars every year, the gear list every month.

We only state facts we can source. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it.

Adventure Index is a small, independent company in the United States. It isn’t owned by a brand, a retailer or a tourism board.

The site is free to use. Some links to gear, passes and bookings are affiliate links: if you buy through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions never decide what we list, how places score, or what we write, and no one can pay to be on a list. Details: affiliate disclosure.

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