Kassondra Cloos is a travel writer in London. She focuses on wilderness adventures, urban green spaces, and slow travel. Her work has been published by Outside, The Denver Post, Fodor’s, HGTV, Travel Channel, and many others. She almost always has a few postage stamps in her backpack and is weirdly obsessed with snail mail. You can find more of her work via her newsletter, outofoffice.substack.com
Nestled among the rugged sand dunes of the Cape Cod National Seashore, you can find 19 rustic, historic cabins, almost all of which are owned by the National Park Service. Booking a stay in one can be quite hard—these dune shacks are hot commodities, and the Park Service runs a lottery for people to book [...]
Just because you’re not a kid anymore doesn’t mean you can’t go away to sleepaway camp. On the contrary: As an adult, you’ve got the freedom to go anywhere you want, and you can choose your camp buddies, too. This year, head out into the wild with old friends and new by taking part in [...]
If you ever spend significant time in England, or are visiting for the coronation, you might notice that bringing up the subject of swans will almost inevitably inspire one of the following two responses: “Swans will break your arm, you know,” or “Did you know the Queen [or King] owns them?” It’s true. When Charles, [...]
Earlier this month, the travel publisher Matador Network launched a brand-new, WhatsApp-based AI to help you plan your trips.
A baby bison who evidently just couldn’t even sat down in the middle of a road at Yellowstone National Park this week and caused a pretty adorable traffic jam. In a video shared by Yahoo, the calf sits in the road surrounded by a small herd of adult bison protecting and trying to nudge it [...]
If you’ve ever dreamt of being a bird, an English zoo might just have your dream job. The Blackpool Zoo announced this week that they’re recruiting a few human seagull deterrents to protect their visitors from flocks of gulls who are just plain trouble. To get the job done, the ideally “outgoing” employees will have [...]
If ever there was a life-changing backyard luxury that also happens to be portable, it is, without a doubt, the SweatTent. This brand-new collapsible sauna is exactly what it sounds like: a tent that is also a sauna, which you can put in your backyard or set up at your campsite and make all of [...]
The numbers are in and they’re huge: In 2022, the National Park Service recorded 312 million visits—more than in 2021 and nearly as many as they did in the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019. According to the latest stats release from NPS, a dozen individual parks broke their all-time visitation records last year, too. [...]
Next week, Zion National Park will play host to the newest location of AutoCamp, a glamping hotel where you can stay in your own kitted-out Airstream. The brand-new AutoCamp Zion opens May 1 in Virgin, Utah, just outside the boundaries of the national park. It’ll feature luxury Airstreams with spa-like bathrooms, spacious accommodations with private [...]
Two TikTokers in England have been credited with coining a new phrase: soft hiking. While some might argue that it’s basically just, well, walking, the idea seems to be gaining steam with people who think serious hikers might be taking themselves too seriously. The two friends, Emily Thornton and Lucy Hird, are behind the TikTok [...]
