Blake Snow

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Recent travel stories I’ve published for CNN, NatGeo, USA Today, LA Times, and more

Over the last five years, I’ve written and published hundreds of travel dispatches for CNN, National Geographic, USA Today, LA Times, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, Orbitz, Frommers, and Paste Magazine. For my most recent articles, click here. For some of my recent favorites, see below:

  1. Top 10 of 2019 (various)
  2. Cliff-jumping The Atlantic: Ireland’s best coasteering spots
  3. Japanese zen: Hiking one of the oldest trails in the world
  4. Top 10 cycling cities
  5. 7 takeaways after cruising the Mediterranean with my kids
  6. Video: 6 ways to overcome your fear of travel
  7. Is Newfoundland the next Iceland?
  8. Which Utah National Park is right for you?
  9. Everything you need to know before visiting Machu Picchu
  10. What coasteering feels like
  11. Staying in President Trump’s #1 rated hotel
  12. Hiking the Alps: 10 days, 3 countries, 1 epic mountain
  13. Critic turned fan: My Disneyland conversion story
  14. What 10,000 miles from home feels like
  15. Went skydiving today. Didn’t die.
  16. Why Americans don’t travel abroad
  17. 5 reasons travel is overrated
  18. What I learned hiking Patagonia with National Geographic
  19. Why a monotonous view is better than none
  20. What I learned crossing South Africa by train
  21. 5 things I learned after visiting New Zealand
  22. The best of Australia
  23. 5 reasons cliche Costa Rica is still “Pura Vida”
  24. What it’s like crossing America’s Loneliest Road
  25. The greatest mountain wilderness you’ve never heard of
  26. My very best travel columns (so far)

Thanks for reading and sharing with anyone that might be interested.

Recommended reading: The best travel listicles I published recently

Courtesy Sam Dean/Visit Rapid City

Excluding non-bylined commercial work, here are my recent published works for news media:

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Blake Snow: The best things I published last month

Excluding my commercial writing, here’s what I published last month:

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Published works: My first book, European biking cruises, writing for hometown papers


Excluding non-bylined writing for commercial clients, here’s what I published this month:

  • Log Off, my first book! Landing page here, Kindle here, paperback here. Thanks for considering it.
  • Why you should bike on your next European river cruise. Written for Frommer’s after a wonderful 8-day biking cruise with my 11-year old daughter.
  • Coming home to Carrollton. Op-ed I wrote for my former hometown paper.

Printed version below for those behind a paywall. Continue reading…

Published works: The greatest Utah wilderness you’ve never heard of

Courtesy Clay Wood

I just published my first story for Frommers, the storied travel guide magazine that changed the way Americans traveled in 1957 after Arthur Frommer published his seminal Europe on 5 Dollars a Day.

My story isn’t that big nor will it make nearly as many waves, but I’m still proud of it and the friends that made it possible by joining me recently on a weekend backpacking trip into the High Uinta Wilderness, which I deem “the best western wilderness you’ve never heard of.”

Hope you enjoy it.