Eastshade island · 3 MIN ·
Eastshade: An Island Explored Through Painting
On Eastshade, painting turns observation into exchange: island views, conversations, inspiration, and materials shape both discoveries and routes past natural barriers.
THE READING ROOM
Find a place worth knowing.
160 real destinations, each with its own route, landscape and photograph. Plus 32 exploration-game features.
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Taranaki · New Zealand · 3 MIN ·
Mangōraukawa / Lake Dive Tracks, Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki
Choose between a high, exposed approach past Hilary Seat and Hooker Shelter or a forest route past Hastie’s Hill and unbridged streams to a lake beneath the upper Beehive.
Valles Caldera · USA · 3 MIN ·
Hiking the Roads and Grasslands of Valles Caldera
Valles Caldera’s former ranch roads cross montane grasslands and burned forest, with outings ranging from flat strolls to steep lava-dome climbs and trailheads that can be hard to find.
Nova Scotia · Canada · 2 MIN ·
Cape Breton’s Skyline Trail: forest loop or headland return?
A headland boardwalk overlooks the Gulf of St Lawrence, reached by either the main path or a longer forest loop.
Big Thicket · USA · 2 MIN ·
Kirby Nature Trail at Big Thicket National Preserve
Explore the Turkey Creek Unit’s linked loops from Staley Cabin, through cypress slough and Village Creek, with a wheelchair-accessible inner circuit and optional bridge-linked extensions.
Canterbury · New Zealand · 3 MIN ·
Kaikōura Peninsula Walkway, Canterbury
From Point Kean’s waka-shaped lookout to Bird City, Hutton’s shearwater colony and South Bay, this coastal route links tidal platforms, cliff paths and layers of Māori and whaling history.
The Unterzee · 3 MIN ·
Sunless Sea: Ports and Perils of the Unterzee
From Fallen London to the Cumaean Canal, Sunless Sea makes exploration a negotiation between unfamiliar ports, a vulnerable crew, and ambitions that can outlast a captain.
North Island · New Zealand · 2 MIN ·
Tongariro Alpine Crossing: a one-way walk through volcanic terrain
From Mangatepōpō through South Crater and the Emerald Lakes to Ketetahi, the current DOC route is 20.2 kilometres one way.
Lake Mead · USA · 3 MIN ·
Goldstrike Canyon Trail, Lake Mead National Recreation Area
A dirt road and dry desert wash lead through seven dry falls toward hot springs, with loose rock, boulders, steep scrambles, and an unmaintained rope hazard shaping the route.
Wrangell - St Elias · USA · 3 MIN ·
Front-Country Hiking Trails, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park
Compare the Kennecott glacier-viewing trails, creek and alpine routes along Nabesna Road, Wrangell Mountain vistas at Copper Center, and the separate flight access for Yakutat’s rainforest trails.
Point Reyes · USA · 3 MIN ·
Rift Zone Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore
Following the San Andreas Fault valley from Bear Valley, this trail moves through meadows, cattle pastures, ranch land, and woods toward a sag pond and Five Brooks Horse Camp.
Jotunheimen · Norway · 2 MIN ·
Besseggen: the ridge between Gjende and Bessvatnet
Climb from Memurubu to the narrow ridge between green Gjende and higher Bessvatnet, then cross Veslefjell to Gjendesheim.