What types of stories does Adventure publish?
Each issue of the magazine contains five or more features, roughly balanced between U.S. and foreign subjects. Generally, we are interested in places accessible to most travelers—not just the intrepid or wealthy. The types of destinations and subjects we cover vary from off-the-beaten-path locales to doable adventure sports. Adventure features are very narrow in scope; on occasion we cover whole states or countries. Subjects of particular interest to us are national and state parks, little-known or undiscovered places, diving, climbing, mountaineering, biking, backpacking, and kayaking trips. We want our articles to be tightly focused and to tell a story. What kinds of proposals does Adventure look for? We accept freelance queries for most of our regular service-oriented departments. Ideas for features are generated both by the Adventure staff and by freelance contributors. If we have to sell readers on our magazine, then freelancers must sell us with more than just notions and place-n
