The best hiking trails in the United States for women, recommended by an all-woman panel of hiking experts.
Type of Travel
Older Adventuress
Women who embrace adventure at any age!
Hiking Switzerland’s Gentle Jura Crest Trail: A Self-Guided Tour of the Swiss Alps
Guest writer Anna Hobbs shares her fulfilling experience hiking the Jura Crest Trail, the gentle long-distance hike in Switzerland, that runs parallel to the Swiss-French border.
10 Best Hiking Trails in Canada for Women
The 10 best hiking and walking trails in Canada, recommended by expert hikers for women of all experience levels and interests.
Hiking Ireland’s Kerry Way Starts With the First Step
The Kerry Way is a 214-km circular hike that begins and ends in Killarney, Ireland and takes eight to 10 days to complete. Just the challenge guest writer Pandora Domeyko needed.
Chasing Adventure on Mount Everest After a Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
How a multiple sclerosis diagnosis challenged solo female traveller Jennifer Haddow to change her life and trek to Mount Everest.
Finding Renewal in New Zealand: How I Overcame my Fear of Travelling Solo Again
After the death of her husband Gabe in 2018, the prospect of going through life solo filled Amanda with dread. She faced her grief, anger and loneliness in a two-week solo travel adventure in New Zealand.
How I Rediscovered my Solo Travel Mojo in New Zealand’s South Island
In the first installment in a new New Zealand series, Editor Amanda Burgess chronicles her two-week solo travel adventure through New Zealand’s South Island – the crazy things she did on her ‘Adrenaline Junkie’ tour, the friends she made, and her insights about this breathtaking country, its people, and herself.
Women’s Solo Travel: Hiking Safety Tips in the Colombian Rainforest
You may be a solo travel expert, but have you ever hiked Colombia on your own? Contributor Samantha Glauser shares what she learned on her solo adventure through the Colombian rainforest.
Island Magic: Close to Nature on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario offers unspoiled nature, plenty of hiking, stunning views from the Cup and Saucer Trail and a glimpse into Indigenous history and culture.
Age-Defying Travel Adventures: Age is Just a Number, Say These Older Women
Women solo travellers share their most inspiring and age-defying travel adventures, showing that age is just a number!
Hike, Bike and Walk Across Canada on the Great Trail
Connecting with nature is a wonderful way to reconnect with ourselves and enjoy the sweeping vistas, vast wilderness, wild rivers, majestic lakes, rocky beaches.
Connect to Nature at Arowhon Pines in Canada’s Algonquin Park
Arowhon Pines is a safe, welcoming place for women to reconnect with nature and wildlife in Algonquin Park.
Adventures in Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula: A Road Trip for Active Women
A road trip to the Grotto, in Tobermory’s Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, teaches valuable lessons about curiosity and travel at home.
What a Service Trip to Kenya Taught me About Life
It’s August 2018, and I’m on a WE service trip in Kenya with my daughter, Alyx. I thought it would prepare her for life. Never did I imagine the impact it would have on me.
Giving Fear the Finger: How Women Grow Through Travel
Some of us allow our fears to hold us back. Then there are the brave souls.
Six Solo Travelers Share Their Most Meaningful Wildlife Experiences
For those who have a kinship with animals, there’s little more awe-inspiring than getting up close and personal with nature’s creatures in their natural habitat.
Living la Pura Vida in Costa Rica: A Solo Traveller’s Adventure
It’s a hot morning in Montezuma, Costa Rica and the walk down the hill to the village is agony…
Eyes open in Patagonia: The Breathtaking Consequences of Climate Change
A visit to Argentina’s Southern Patagonian ice fields and Glaciar Perito Moreno reveals the effects and consequences of climate change.
Travel Ethiopia: Intuition-Led Exploring
You know those pivotal moments when you explore a new place and a little voice inside you whispers "go down that alley" or "what is that – go find...
5 Things for Women to Love About Nicaragua
Travelling as a solo woman to Managua, Nicaragua, I have to admit to some anxiety, but I found much to love in this Central American country.
