We’re Hiring!
This season we’re expanding our services and growing our team
As we widen our client base beyond the New York City metro area, we’re looking to bring on a small team of passionate outdoors people who are as …
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Promoting Economic Growth: Outdoor Tourism and New York’s Biggest City
As the owner of a New York City-based business serving a rather outdoorsy clientele, I have gained some interesting insights on two distinct parts of our …
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Solitude Among…
When I began trekking and camping in my late teens, I was in search of adventure as much as solitude. In an effort to clear my head and gain perspective, the woods provided an environment to …
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Prepping for a Season of Group Outfittings
As we make the transition into spring, the team has been busy preparing the business for a planned expansion of group outfittings and corporate events. Over the past two years, we’ve steadily …
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In the year since we published our first list of favorite online resources for Exploring Beyond the New York Metro Area, we’ve discovered a couple of other sites which we’d be remiss not …
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Over the past two years, we’ve talked with hundreds of folks, headed out on all types of trips. From short jaunts in the Catskills and week-long paddles in the Adirondacks, to those looking a bit …
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This season, treat yourself to the Traverse Outfitters Backcountry Blade–numbered and engraved to show your support. Includes 13″ lanyard with monkey fist. Give us a call to hear all the details: 917-830-5419.
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The 2015 Best Hiking Guides to the NYC Metro Area
We’re often asked, “what’s the best New York City hiking destination?” While it’s a relatively straightforward question, the answer isn’t an easy one. New York’s backcountry is …
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Any relationship worth its salt is based on trust. That’s why one of our overriding goals at Traverse Outfitters has been to work with the outdoor industry’s most trusted retailers, vendors and service providers. And …
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From the small towns dotted throughout the Catskills, and the mountain communities of the Adirondack Park, to the rolling Hudson Valley’s quaint downtowns, groups across New York State are coming together to spur a new …
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We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Discover Outdoors, the metro area’s largest and longest-serving adventure guiding company. Throughout the year the guides at Discover Outdoors run a dizzying array of day trips, …
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Experiencing the White Mountain Huts
With the sun’s intensity fading, and summer vacation over for most students, fall is the perfect season to experience wilderness in the north east. And if you enjoy multi-day backcountry trips, …
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It’s not too late to experience free kayaking this summer
Throughout the summer boathouses and community groups across the city open their doors to the public for open kayaking and guided trips on New York’s waterways. From …
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The Cliffs at LIC Proves Patience Pays Off
The folks at The Cliffs are definitely onto something. Since their launch earlier this summer in Long Island City, Queens, the people behind this expansive …
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Long Path in Slide Mountain Wilderness: 9 miles of (stunning) new trail
The Long Path, the decades-old project to connect the greater metro area to the Adirondacks by way of a …
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Florian Hill Presents at Outdoor Rise, June 2014
This has been a busy month for the outdoor community here in New York City. With two multi-day festivals, a huge slacklining competition and music events like the Governors …
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Revisiting Otis Pike: 50 years of wilderness in America
Later this year we’ll reach an important milestone in the history of environmental conservation: the fiftieth anniversary of the Wilderness Act (PL 88-577). Signed …
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