Ice fishing in Minnesota Gary Krueger (from the archives)
Outside New Orleans Chuck Stull (from the archives)
Outside Online is an
excellent online version of Outside Magazine. Lots of cool stuff. My favorite
feature is the equipment reviews from the Gear
Guy.
Lonely Planet has some nice travel pictures and some info from their excellent series of guidebooks.
The Rough Guide has excellent travel info, online through Hotwired, for a variety of cities and countries. Rough Guide has put many of their Rough Guides online.
Roadside America has information on all kinds of tourist traps & roadside attractions.
Mainstream travel guides by Fodor's
and Frommer's are online.
City.Net has links to many cities around the world. Web Magazine has a guide to the top 101 city websites._CNN also has a list of city guides.
Travel Reference has reviews of travel guides.
Links for the enlightened traveler.
Microsoft's Travel site
Travel and Leisure magazine
and the State Department official warnings page.
Maps:
Several site convert street addresses to local area maps, including:
Yahoo
map site , Delorme
(of Atlas & Gazetteer fame), and Autopilot
.
A big collection of country maps can be found at University of Texas.
Or visit the USGS for geographic information. The USGS Geographic Names Information System searches for particular locations in the United States and Territories.
National Geographic maps are famous (but the online versions seem less detailed).
Color Landform Atlas of the United States-- nice state maps and satellite images.
Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps, part of Stanford's Branner Library map collection
Microsoft's Terraserver has a database of satellite photos. It's incomplete and a bit bloated, but an interesting concept.
Nature and Wildlife Photography:
Galen Rowell's gallery is full of beautiful mountain images.
Some classic black & whites from Ansel Adams are for sale at the Ansel Adams Gallery and the Ansel Adams poster gallery. More Ansel Adams.
Read a great article from the Atlantic Monthly on the ethics of manipulating photos "Photography in the Age of Falsification".
Art Wolfe has some nice photos (but the site requests lots of cookies). See the article listed above for a discussion of Wolfe's book, "Migrations".
Kodak has lots of tips on photography
Escaping to Nature has tips on nature photography
Photo.net has equipment reviews, suggestions on what to buy and where to buy it, photo essays, and more: the most useful online photography resource I've found.
New York Institute of Photography has a monthly online magazine with useful photo tips.
National Geographic, famous also for its photograpy, has a worthwhile photo site.
Photographic links from Photo Resource Magazine
Camping, hiking and biking:
Visit the National Parks website
REI has a set of online courses introducing several outdoor activities.
More hiking & backpacking info: hiking guide or backpacking
iBike: trails and more
Specialized bikes provides online reviews of bike trails
For a huge collection of outdoor links try: GORP
Other Information:
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The National Weather Service
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