If you’re dying to tell someone about your latest hike, road trip, or off-the-beaten-path adventure, we want to read about it! And so does our community.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for people who love to talk about traveling and hiking. If you love bragging about your recent hikes, gushing about the trip plans you were able to pull off, and how you saved money while doing it, you’re exactly who we want. You don’t need to be a professional writer or travel blogger. You just need first-hand experience with the trail, road trip, destination, or outdoor topic you’re writing about.
Our readers are planning real trips. They want to know about the best and most creative routes for road trips, where you parked and stayed, what you ate, what the trail conditions were actually like, whether you camped, stayed somewhere unique, or just winged it, and what you wish you’d known before you went.
What We Want
We publish posts in these categories:
Hiking: Trail guides, hike reviews, beginner tips, safety guides, and anything else that gets people outside and prepared. Trail guides should include details like trailhead location, distance, difficulty, key landmarks and interesting spots of the trail, and parking and permit information.
Road Trips: Multi-day itineraries, day trips, scenic byway guides, and off-the-beaten-path routes, including where to eat and stay. We love detailed itineraries that give readers a real sense of what each day looked like.
Outdoor Tips & Guides: How-to content, safety and survival tips, packing lists, and topics that help people hike and travel smarter.
What We Don’t Want
To keep the site useful and trustworthy for our readers, we don’t publish:
- Content that wasn’t written from personal, first-hand experience
- AI-generated content
- Duplicate content published elsewhere on the web
- Listicles with no substance (“10 Great Hikes in X” with two sentences per hike)
- Content unrelated to hiking, road trips, or the outdoors
Content Guidelines
- Posts should be a minimum of 1,000 words.
- Include at least 2–3 original photos from your actual trip. Stock photos are okay to supplement, but we want real images from the experience.
- Format your post with clear headings (H2 and H3) to make it easy to scan.
- Include a short author bio (2–4 sentences) with a photo.
- We reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity, length, and style while maintaining your voice and intent.
How to Submit
Send your pitch or completed draft to hikingandroadtrips@gmail.com with the subject line “Write For HRT: [Your Topic]”.
In your email, include:
- Propose a title for your topic with a brief description of the trip or trail you explored. Include your road trip or day trip itinerary stops, the trail name and where it was, other outdoor content pitch, along with the dates they took place.
- Links to any writing samples, if you have them. This could be a personal blog, social media account, or anything that shows your writing style.
- If you have a completed draft ready, feel free to attach it
We review all submissions and respond within 2 weeks! We can’t wait to read your story.
💙 Daniella and Ally