Subscriptions
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Maybe you just enjoy reading about fascinating places and seeing the pictures and videos, resting in your favorite armchair, in the comfort of your own home. For only the price of a magazine each month, you will experience a section of the country. Travel or learn. It’s your choice. Either is well served by the enjoyable and valuable information from your subscription.
Each month, for about the price of a cup of coffee (or a couple of cheap ones) You will receive a new set of Adventures!
Start by Choosing a Package Below
Think of it like this: For the price of an affordable meal out for two, you can enjoy 6 months worth of detailed, valuable information! Let us save you all the time and trouble of hours and hours of researching!
The West
The “Wild West” is a place of stark contrasts, home to both long established native cultures and quickly built lawless towns, fearsome outlaws and fearless pioneers, petticoats and pistols, and legendary names like Geronimo, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Mangas Coloradas, Tom Horn and Oliver Lee.
You can still find ghost towns here, as well as ancient ruins, and a subscription to Backways and Byways will put you on the right trail. From the plains to the desert to the high mountains, and all the way up the Pacific Coast...it’s not just majestic beauty, and places of calm…it’s the dramatic shards of buried stories that engross our imagination and spirit of adventure.
Use our guides to plan your adventure on your own time and on your own terms. Our map suggestions make sites easy to find and maximize your time. With your subscription, each month you will discover places of beauty and fascination that you may have never known about. Travel to them at your leisure, on your own budget and timeline, or in your mind, right in the saddle of your easy chair.
Each month you will receive locations to visit, unique restaurants to dine, intriguing places to stay, as well as the history and interesting facts surrounding each one. We even provide suggested travel routes.
So what are you waiting for? Sign up today and start planning your own special and unforgettable adventures!
Northeast
The Backways and Byways of the Northeast unveil idyllic villages and hamlets with a warming charm that seems to jump right off a picture calendar or a Norman Rockwell painting. They capture our imagination with the dreamscape of a simpler, more peaceful way of life. In the Autumn, the colors and landscape reach the point of pleasant intoxication, pushing our senses to ethereal places. No wonder this region was the inspiration for many of America’s poets!
Each month with your subscription, you will discover historic villages, churches, graveyards, places of natural beauty and rugged coastlines all the way to Maine. Our information allows you to travel free and confident, at your leisure, on your own budget and timeline or simply, in your imagination.
This is a great tool if you just want to learn about interesting places and the stories they hold, without ever visiting. Linger as long as you want when you find that special place. Our LINKS let you dig as far as you want on more details and backstories about the places we visit. If you are visiting the places, our map suggestions help make the choices easy and our unique backstories help you experience the Northeast in living color! So why not subscribe today and start writing your own poem?
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Florida
No doubt Florida is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the U.S. But did you know it holds many un-touristy yet fascinating places of beauty and history? Let us open up the backways and byways of Florida for you, with wild places, beautiful and historic homes, hotels and restaurants, tropical and primeval, pristine waterways. And, as always, we include our popular stories behind them.
Florida is far more than beaches or theme parks! With a rich history that captures the imagination, there are springs with gentle manatees seeking winter refuge, remnants of the railroad’s influence in tourism, peaceful waterways and out of the way places that defy societal conformity.
With your monthly subscription, you will receive a treasure trove of places—some heard of, others maybe not so heard of—to explore and enjoy. Embellished by our story behind the story feature, each place holds a significant value not known by many people. And our maps make them easy to find.
So why not subscribe today and discover places and stories you may not have known about or found?
The South
The South is a land that has known both anguish and triumph, scarred by the horrors of war and rising up from her ashes like the Phoenix. It is a land of legend, of song, of honored traditions. From her storied Antebellum mansions to her modern cities and amenities, the South offers a wide range of adventures. Her ancient mountains, worn by eons of time, flow gently down to her tropical shorelines and lazy Mississippi Delta. Her mythical small towns hold strange and captivating stories hidden by time and puritanical traditions.
When you subscribe to this package, each month you will receive the skeleton key that opens another door to these spellbinding rooms. Historic and romantic places, charming as well as down to earth places to eat, hiking trails, driving trails, unspoiled beaches, curious places and much, much more.
Explore freely from our guidance and background information. While our map suggestions are helpful, locals are happy to provide you with a good dose of friendly, mannerly directions.
So why not subscribe today? Ya’ll come!
Appalachians
Appalachia covers a downright rugged area where many migrants from Ireland and Scotland felt at home after crossing the Atlantic. Before them, the Cherokee flourished for centuries here. These ancient mountains are much older than the Rockies and have been worn and sculpted by the hands of time, patiently molding them into a paradise of beauty. Their crystal clear waters, flowing gently and violently around rocks and boulders from the mountaintops, are filled with mountain trout and framed by fragrant Rhododendrons. These scenographic rivers and streams make their way like the magnificent movement of a ballet to join the waters of Earth’s oceans.
With all their natural beauty, the Appalachians are also the home to bustling metropolitan areas and charming small towns. There is a plethora of things to do from fine dining to homey cafes. Eco tours and snow skiing. There’s even theme parks celebrating the culture of the region.
Here, you can find Native American history, Appalachian homesteads and exhibits, and vast expanses of magnificent wilderness. The culture that allowed survival here is still present in many of the backways. Folklore is still whispered and even popularized with National Storytelling Festivals. Highland Festivals celebrate the legacy of Scots-Irish settlers.
So sign up today. The mountains are calling.
How to Use Your Subscription
1) LINKS! One of the most important features! We give you short, easy to read summations of Places, History, Restaurants and Hotels so you’re not bogged down with too much to read. But if you want to delve deeper into the details, use our links! Whenever you see a word, name or phrase underlined, click on it with your mouse. The underlined words lead you to far more information on the item underlined. Using this, you can delve as far as you want on the details. How to plan for a particular attraction, how to get tickets, menus, more history, more background…in general, how to learn more…all revealed by clicking on the underlined links.
3) MAPS! Use the interactive maps we provide to see how to get from place to place. You can follow the order we suggest, or enter in different locations to create your own route!
2) IMAGINATION! See it in your mind that you are traveling from place to place as you explore our sections. We have attempted to list things in the most logical order of how to move from place to place or visualize getting there, even if you don’t visit them or travel out of your easy chair!
Most importantly, we are open to feedback on how to improve. If you have a suggestion, please don’t hesitate to email us at backwaysfeedback@gmail.com!