Articles / Jen Rose Smith

Vermont travel writer Jen Rose Smith covers human-powered adventure, exploration, food, and spirits from her home in the Green Mountains. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, CNN Travel, AFAR, Rolling Stone,USA Today, and Outside Online.

In addition to her work as a freelancer, Jen is the author of five travel guidebooks to Vermont and New England, including Moon New England Road Trips, which was selected for the 2018 New England Society Book Awards.

Adventure.com • 10th June 2019

Adventure.com: What can an economist teach travelers about risk?

After a close call on a flight over New Jersey, writer Jen Rose Smith wanted to learn more about how travelers can better deal with risk and uncertainty. So she got in touch with Allison Schrager—an economist, of all things.

USA Today Go Escape: Katahdin Woods and Waters

Clear rivers and hiking trails unspool through dense forest in Katahdin Woods and Waters. An ancient landscape, it’s also one of America’s youngest national monuments.

WorldNomads' USA Guide: A Slice of Portugal on Cape Cod

Steering between Cape Cod’s cranberry bogs and sand dunes, I spin the car radio dial in search of music. What I find surprises me, because instead of pop hits or country, I pick up the haunting sounds of a fado song coming from a Portuguese station.

USA Today Go Escape: Historic New England Hotels

Treat yourself to old-fashioned comfort on your next visit to New England, where hotels that combine modern luxury and vintage charm offer travelers a chance to step back in time.

Backpacker Magazine: Four wildflower day hikes

No Instagram filter needed: Find a world of color on these four trips to springtime blooms.

Fodors Travel Guide • 15th May 2019

Fodor's: 12 Ways to Learn a Foreign Language While Traveling

Ditch the classroom for a real-world adventure and learn a language along the way.

Air Chicago Magazine: Discover Cairo's New, Old Kingdom

When the billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum opens in Giza in 2020, Egypt’s oldest treasures will gleam within a brand new frame.

Condé Nast Traveler • 13th May 2019

Condé Nast Traveler: Hotels Where You Can Chase the Midnight Sun

For the ultimate midnight sun experience, travel beyond the Arctic Circle—at 66˚ of latitude, that invisible line marks the place where the sun stays above the horizon for 24 hours on the solstice.

CNN Travel • 8th May 2019

CNN Travel: Amazing destinations with almost no tourists

In 2017, nearly 87 million international tourists arrived in France. That same year, a mere 2,000 international tourists visited the South Pacific country of Tuvalu, where it's easy to find a beach — or even an entire island — to yourself.

24th April 2019

HuffPost: Weirdest historical diets

According to historian of medicine Louise Foxcroft, fad diets have been around since the 16th century, when a tell-all weight loss book by Venetian merchant Luigi Cornaro became a surprise bestseller with tips on extreme calorie restriction.

AFAR Media • 4th April 2019

AFAR: 11 Lost Cities You Can Actually Visit

Whether you’re among the dusty palaces at Xanadu or walking along ancient Troy’s battlements, you can channel your inner explorer while visiting these ruins, whose cultural breadth and evocativeness show how enduring lost cities can be.

Nexos: Colombia is for Cyclists

An adventurous bikepacking trip through the Andes reveals a culture where cycling is sacred.

CNN Travel • 25th March 2019

CNN: Visiting a country that doesn't exist

A buffer zone splits this easternmost Mediterranean island in two, a 180-kilometer scar maintained by United Nations peacekeepers in one of the longest-running missions in history.

24th March 2019

Backpacker: Hard Hikes

Whether it’s big elevation changes, big miles, or big moves, these 23 routes prove that the best hikes are often the hardest. There’s a world of adventure out there—if you’re strong enough to seize it.

Atlas Obscura • 22nd March 2019

Atlas Obscura: The Istanbul Food Detectives Recreating Ottoman Cuisine

Here’s a basic shopping list if you’re chef to the Ottoman sultan: The dried glands of a musk deer, a bushel of violets, ambergris from whale bellies, and handfuls of desert-harvested frankincense.

Adventure.com • 5th December 2018

Adventure.com: The Human Carpentry of Catalonia's Castellers

Equal parts flesh and architecture, the castellers’ craft is a kind of human carpentry, using their own muscle, sinew and bone as tools.

15th November 2018

Backpacker Magazine: Holy Hikes

Make a modern-day pilgrimage to one of these sacred sites.

AFAR Media • 15th January 2019

AFAR: Why Your Next Trip to Europe Should Be on the Canals

Compared to urban vacations, which can rush through countries at the pace of an Instagram scroll, a European canal cruise is the definition of slow travel. The historic barges keep to a leisurely pace of four miles an hour, following man-made canals dug for transporting everything from wine casks to royal entourages.

Fodors Travel Guide • 20th October 2018

Fodor's: The Salar de Uyuni is South America’s Most Surreal Landscape

With an ancient island of giant cacti, boiling mud pools, and hotels made entirely from salt, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni looks like something from a fever dream.

CNN Travel • 30th November 2018

CNN Travel: 50 of the world's best desserts

Imagine the best dessert on Earth. Better yet, turn to a stranger on the street and ask them. Odds are good -- dollars to doughnuts -- their answer is different from yours.

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