Outdoor Group Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the titles in Active Interest Media's Outdoor Group cover a distinctive blend of outdoor recreation, national park travel, and outdoor industry news. A wide breadth of multimedia platforms drives our unique mission to inspire, inform, and empower travel and outdoor-lifestyle enthusiasts to seek out new experiences. Our 360-degree approach includes everything from enthusiast and trade publications to interactive websites, innovative mobile applications, and nationwide consumer events.
Backpacker The Outdoors at Your Doorstep
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to readers' doorsteps, inspiring and enabling them to visit more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine and website, and the only outdoor-media property whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they write about.
Backpacker Magazine Backpacker connects with 1.1 million readers for whom outdoor adventure is the centerpiece to a vibrant, experiential lifestyle. Within its pages, Backpacker readers find the very best in close-to-home trip ideas and done-in-a-day adventures that they can easily schedule into their busy lives. But beyond hiking and backpacking, Backpacker covers the latest in a wide variety of outdoor sports, including bicycling, fly-fishing, mountain biking, trail running, rock climbing, and more. >> Find Out More!
Backpacker.com Backpacker.com advances the editorial mission of the magazine by providing timely, topical content, engaging interactive tools, and Web-exclusive features, all of which enable people to connect with the outdoors. In 2009, the American Society of Magazine Editors honored Backpacker.com with a National Magazine Award in the General Excellence Online category, noting that "few magazines embrace the potential of the Web as aggressively or creatively as Backpacker.com, complete with simple navigation and an intuitive design." >> Find Out More!
Backpacker Events Backpacker events are natural extensions of Backpacker’s print and online offerings. These events not only bring the magazine and website pages to life, but give marketers an unmatched platform to tie into the Backpacker brand and the authentic reputation that the brand represents. >> Find Out More!
National Parks Interactive
Dream it. Plan it. Live it.
. For over 15 years, National Parks Interactive (formerly Yellowstone International) has led the market in generating tourism for Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding communities. Thanks to its award-winning website, MyYellowstonePark.com, and its lead-generation programs and print publications, National Parks Interactive has built an integrated destination-marketing model that reaches millions of people throughout the world as they plan their trips, while they’re on vacation, and even after they’ve returned home.
Yellowstone Magazine Yellowstone provides total trip-planning resources to national park visitors in the American West. Through its regional tour guide, 99 Things to Do In Yellowstone Country, and its Webby Award-winning website, YellowstonePark.com, Yellowstone generates tourism to America's national parks and surrounding regions. Utilizing new media such as podcasts, video feeds, and consumer-generated content, Yellowstone is always providing visitors with new and exciting ways to plan their trip of a lifetime.
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Trips.com Due to the unparalleled popularity of MyYellowstonePark.com, we have replicated our model to cover other major national parks in the Western United States. NationalPark Trips.com serves as the portal for this growing family of sites, creating a convenient and enjoyable experience for that memorable vacation of a lifetime.
Each site is uniquely designed to inspire a national park vacation, providing useful information and tried-and-true travel tips along with original editorial content, stunning photography, and user-generated features such as Google Maps, YouTube videos, and Trip Notes, among others. >> Find Out More!
SNEWS® Specialty News
SNEWS is the most reliable outdoor and fitness industry source for late-breaking news, trend reporting, business education, and in-depth product reviews. SNEWS utilizes a variety of custom-produced print and online platforms that reach key decision makers and industry insiders.
SNEWS Magazine SNEWS reaches retailers, suppliers, manufacturers, and buyers with our business-to-business outdoor and fitness publications. They’re distributed to industry decision-makers nationwide through both digital and print editions. >> Find Out More!
SNEWSnet.com SNEWSnet.com combines a polished design with interactive capabilities that allow users to seamlessly navigate through news features, tools, podcasts, press releases, and more. The outdoor and fitness industry’s most influential users are logging onto SNEWSnet.com for the most comprehensive business information on the Web. >> Find Out More!
Peaks The Magazine of Vail Resorts
With spectacular photography and contributions from the world’s best ski and snowboard writers, Peaks highlights the on-mountain experience as well as the best in accommodations, cuisine, arts and entertainment, shopping, and real estate.
Peaks Magazine This publication is aimed at skiers and riders who regularly visit the five mountains of Vail Resorts and who not only love the sport but also embrace the finer things in life. >> Find Out More!
PeaksMag.com The Peaks website, along with the annual magazine, features profiles of the five Vail Resorts mountains (Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Heavenly) as well as a complete Buyer’s Guide that highlights the best gear and apparel for 2009–2010 >> Find Out More!
