Trek Travel In the News

Outside Online Includes Vermont Family In 50 Great Family Adventures

HIGHLIGHTS: For six summer days, take in the quaint New England scenery of central Vermont from the saddle of a bike rolling down some of America’s most scenic roads. Pedal past barns, covered bridges, log cabins, and old-fashioned towns (including Middlebury and Stowe), with views of the green Champlain Valley and the Adirondacks all the while. More...

Men's Journal Approves California Wine Country Weekend

The Sonoma wine country bike vacation is no secret. Thousands of cyclists take to this region north of San Francisco every year to climb its long, scenic hills, hopping from winery to winery by day, and sleeping it off in a cozy inn at night. The problem? It's often a logistical nightmare that either costs more than you'd expect or ends up being a headache to rival anything brought on by all the wine. More...

Bike, Eat, Drink Your Way Through Tuscany

What better way to prepare yourself for a daily menu of cappuccino, bruschetta, risotto, and Chianti—lots of Chianti—than hammering 27 miles on a road bike? More...

Spring Classic Bike Trips Come to Trek Travel!

From the ’Hell of the North’ to the fabled cobblestones of France, we have added Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix to our 2012 offering of Race Bike Trips. Get up close to the action and watch your favorite strongmen battle it out in these one day classics.

Jetsetter Passport chats with guide Jonathan Hershberger about California Wine Country

This week we launched a sale featuring Trek Travel’s California Wine Country tour, a five-night cycling itinerary that stops at some of Napa and Sonoma’s best wineries. We spoke with Jonathan Hershberger, a guide for Trek Travel, and asked all the important questions: How much can you really drink while biking? Do people ever fall down? And do you feel silly at a wine tasting in bike shorts? We also covered some less important ground, like the biggest challenges on the trip, the coolest stop and why their bikes have been in the Tour de France. More...

Lori Rackl of the Chicago Sun Times covers our 2010 Race France

PYRENEES MOUNTAINS, France — I’m standing on the side of the road at the Tour de France, and Lance Armstrong is pedaling straight at me.

My excitement shifts to panic as the seven-time champion gets so close, I have to step back to avoid being the Schmuck Who Steve Bartman-ed Lance’s Last Tour. More...

Trek Travel wins Outside Magazine’s Trip of the Year for Race France!

Trek Travel is proud to announce that our Race France Behind the Scenes bike vacation has been selected by Outside Magazine as one of the top 25 Trips of the Year!

Peter Verburg blogs about his Giro d’Italia experience

Trek Travel is on GlobeLife as Peter Verburg blogs from the streets of this year’s Giro d’Italia bike tour.

Trek Travel featured in Men’s Journal

Trek Travel is featured in the May issue of Men’s Journal for our Giro d’Italia bike tour.

Trek Travel featured in New York Times

Trek Travel was recently featured in a New York Times article entitle "More are spending less, to get a way from it all", by Stefani Jackenthal.

Trek Travel is "pushing it to the edge" in Celebrated Living!

Trek Travel’s Cross Country USA bicycle trip is featured in the Spring 2009 issue of American Airlines Celebrated Living magazine. Ken McAlpine tells us why "those Tour de France lightweights" fall 1,000 miles short of our Cross Country trip of a lifetime.

Voted the best...

Trek Travel was voted the best by National Geographic Adventure Magazine with 100% client satisfaction.

Official Tour Operator for Santos Tour Down Under

Trek Travel has been named Official Tour Operator of the 2009 & 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.

Trek Travel featured in Bicycling Magazine!

Trek Travel’s Cross Country USA bicycle trip is featured in the December issue of Bicycling Magazine as one of the 15 trips they love! Read "Live the Cross Country Dream".

Trek Travel featured on ForbesTraveler.com

Trek Travel has recently been mentioned on ForbesTraveler.com for our Bordeaux Wine Festival vacation.

New Website Launched

Find your vacation of a lifetime faster! Every bike tour we offer is now never more than 1 click away. Plus, check out our Show Me Similar Trips search on each tour detail page to quickly find the best trip to suit your travel dates, destination, activity level, price range and interests.

We have a winner in California Wine!

Nicholas Snider is the winner of our California Wine Country giveaway. He and a guest will enjoy one of the world’s premiere cycling regions, compliments of Trek Travel. California’s Wine Country provides an uncommon blend of panoramic views, flavorful wines, upscale menus, and elegant country living along quiet back roads and twisting byways. Congratulations Nicholas!

Discovery Channel | Riding the Tour de France: Livin’ the Dream

Citing Trek Travel’s professional guides, logistics expertise, in-depth knowledge of cycling in France, and reputation for creating experiences of a lifetime, the Discovery Channel asked Trek Travel to partner on this exciting project. Shot in high definition, the show chronicles two lucky contest winners as they prepare for and then challenge the toughest mountain stage of the 2007 race.
To aide in their adventure of a lifetime, the riders are equipped with Trek’s top-of-the-line All New Madone and receive constant logistical and moral support from one of Trek Travel’s elite guides, Doug Kirkby. Be sure to tune in and watch as Doug expertly guides the two contest winners toward achieving their ultimate goal.

Trek Travel teams up with Pro Tour Team Astana!

• Trek Travel will also partner with Astana, offering behind-the-scenes access to the team. —VeloNews
• This exclusive access to the world’s most successful stage racing team continues to set Trek Travel apart in the active travel industry. —Trek Bikes

California Wine Country Bike Tour Review in NorthShore Magazine

Tucked far away on the West Coast, the wine country spans acres of sacred land. We all know about Sonoma Valley from drinking its full-bodied wine, but what do we really know about this region? In wine country, the Mayacamas and Sonoma Mountains meet lush valleys, grape vineyards thrive, and century-old redwood trees tower overhead. Sonoma County, Calif., is an oasis for vintners who are passionate about transforming and combining ripe grapes into precise blends anyone in the world can enjoy...

Trek Travel wins Outside Magazine’s Trip of the Year…Again!

We are proud to once again receive Outside Magazine’s Trip of the Year Award.
This year our Cross Country USA Bike Tour was named North American winner.
This epic, coast-to-coast challenge takes you from Santa Barbara, California, to Charleston, South Carolina—2,949 miles with 167,000 vertical feet of climbing—in 33 grueling days. You’ll pedal on two-lane blacktop across the Mojave Desert, over Rocky Mountain passes, and through southern prairies en route to the Atlantic seaboard, staying in roadside hotels along the way. You’ll earn a lifetime’s worth of bragging rights (you’re averaging a century ride per day) and get a two-wheeled take on the classic American landscapes that most travelers experience only as a blur through the car window. Just be sure to remember to dip a toe in both the Pacific and Atlantic or your efforts might be in vain.

Listen to a Journey through Tuscany

Jeff from Palo Alto Bicycle is interviewed by Chris Christensen from AmateurTraveler.com on his recent trip to Tuscany, Italy with Trek Travel. This podcast does an excellent job of describing what to expect on a Trek Travel trip as well as provide some insider knowledge of Italy.