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“Travelers can take wing with the birds flying south.”

Phil Marty | September 1, 2015

“Many bicycling vacations move from one lodging to another on a daily basis. Sometimes that means cyclists have to cart their belongings on their bike, though often the tour company shuttles luggage. Trek Travel has a new batch of bike trips that take a different approach, with bikers staying in one lodging and doing day trips from there. An example is a six-day/five-night tour based at Blackberry Farm, a highly rated property in the Great Smoky Mountains. Priced from $5,499 per person double occupancy, it includes daily rides ranging from 19 miles with 750 feet of climbing to 43 miles with 4,300 feet of climbing. In addition to lodging, the tours include all meals, full support services, use of Trek Domane 5.9 carbon bikes, Trek helmets and Garmin GPS bike computers and more. Other packages in what’s called the One series are in the U.S. as well as foreign locations such as the Canary Islands or Italy’s Piedmont region.”

Read More in the Chicago Tribune»

Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Trek Travel with a Platinum level Bicycle Friendly Business award, joining more than 1,000 visionary businesses from across the country.

With the announcement of 100 new and renewing BFBs today, Trek Travel joins a cutting-edge group of more than 1,050 local businesses, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in 47 states and Washington, D.C., that are transforming the American workplace.

“The business community’s investment in bicycling is playing a central role in making the country a safer, happier, and more sustainable place to live and work,” said Amelia Neptune, League Bicycle Friendly Business Program Manager. “We applaud this new round of businesses, including Trek Travel, for leading the charge in creating a bicycle-friendly America for everyone.”

Trek Travel strives to show people the world by bike, and in doing so it is our mission to encourage a passion for cycling. Trek Travel also promotes bicycling as an easy option for transportation and provides amenities and incentives for employees who commute by bike.

Trek Travel President Tania Burke said, “I am really proud that Trek Travel has received this Bicycle Friendly Business award. We have an awesome group of people that contribute to create a really good program to support cycling in our workplace and the community. We are passionate about biking and live the benefits everyday.”

Moving forward, Trek Travel will have access to a variety of free tools and technical assistance from the League to become even more bicycle-friendly. When our employees bike, great things happen: decreased carbon foot print, reduced heath care costs, lesser traffic congestion, and a healthy work culture.

To apply or learn more about the BFB program, visit the League online.
 
 

 
 
About the Bicycle Friendly America Program
The Bicycle Friendly Community, Bicycle Friendly State, Bicycle Friendly Business and Bicycle Friendly University programs are generously supported by program partner Trek Bicycle Corp. To learn more about building a Bicycle Friendly America, visit www.bikeleague.org/BFA

The League of American Bicyclists is leading the movement to create a Bicycle Friendly America for everyone. As leaders, our commitment is to listen and learn, define standards and share best practices to engage diverse communities and build a powerful, unified voice for change.

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.”

Read More in Peloton Magazine.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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.