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For the second year in a row, Trek Travel has been awarded National Geographic Traveler magazine’s coveted “50 Tours of a Lifetime” honor with the 2015 recognition going to its Portland to Missoula Bike Tour.

The active travel company specializing in cycling vacations won the award for its Great Smoky Mountains Blackberry Farm Bike Tour in 2014.

The competitive selection process uncovered 2015’s most authentic, most innovative, most immersive, best-guided, and most sustainable tours.

“This year marks 10 years of our editors selecting the world’s best guided tours,” said Norie Quintos, acting editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler. “In that time the types of immersive and experiential trips have only multiplied; tours are going farther and deeper than ever before. The trips and operators we selected are a model for the rest of the travel industry. They open the world to travelers and, at the same time, leave a positive impact on the destinations and its people.”

National Geographic Traveler magazine surfaces the best tours and outfitters for travelers as part of its mission “to propel readers out of their armchairs and into the field.” It has the largest audience of any travel magazine, with more than 8.5 million readers who love to travel, have the highest passport ownership, most international and domestic trips, and most outdoor recreation spending.

“We’re thrilled to, again, win National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime” award,” says Meagan Coates, Director of Trip Design at Trek Travel. “Our trip designers work long and hard to find the most compelling and unique destinations around the world that can provide an incredible cycling experiences of a lifetime.”

The Portland to Missoula Bike Tour raises the bar on the definition of adventure travel. This first stage of Trek Travel’s bucket list Cross Country USA: Portland to Portland trip offers 10 days of gorgeous riding through the Columbia River Gorge and Hood River; the wine country of eastern Washington; the wild open spaces of Idaho; over Lolo Pass and into the Wild West college town of Missoula, Montana.

Guests cover more than 700 miles, with four rides of 98 miles or more, and climb over 30,000 feet–all with the support of Trek Travel’s renowned support team.

Trek Travel’s 2014 award-winning ride – Great Smoky Mountains Blackberry Farm Bike Tour – set a new standard for active vacation luxury travel when it debuted. Trek Travel partnered with this intimate location nestled on the 4,200 acres estate in the Great Smoky Mountains to bring guests an unforgettable experience. From private garden tours with their esteemed Chef, an iconic dinner in their Barn Cellar and meeting the brew master with an exclusive tour and tasting, to cycling the local foothills, Trek Travel has created a tour to be emulated.

“Not knowing. It’s a special feeling on the bike. After traversing endless miles on your local haunts, not knowing what the next bend holds is a rarity. This is why we travel. Pointing your front wheel down a new road, to see and experience unknown kilometers, awakens a new love for the bike–literally and figuratively expanding horizons.

To travel by bike is to never actually arrive: the journey is the destination, unlocking a fresh understanding of time in the saddle. But this doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared and tackle these new roads in style. This is where the travel company comes in. Choose wisely and the new roads you find will be of the highest caliber and you will ride them in style.

Trek Travel has become the standard by which all other bike travel companies are measured. The American bike company runs tours all over the world and prides itself on knowing more than just the best climbs and routes. The hotels, restaurants and mid-ride stops are all more than just highly rated–they are the same places the locals would go to. And Trek Travel guides are more than a local hammer with a flat repair kit; they are real travel professionals.

Speciality: It’s hard to assign a specialty to the company that essentially created 21st century bike touring and offers legendary trips across the globe; but, if pressed, we’d have to say France. No one covers the birthplace of cycling better.”

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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!

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

We are proud to once again receive Outside Magazine’s Trip of the Year Award. 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.