Small-group backpacking expeditions

Six days deep,
far past the trailhead.

Backcountry Boone plans and leads 4–6 day backpacking routes through America's national parks, including off-trail sections most visitors never see. Small crews, honest miles, and the kind of trip you talk about for years.

Plan a trip How it works

4–6 daysper expedition

Small groupsfriends & word-of-mouth

Off-trailnavigation & route-finding

WFRWilderness First Responder led

Expeditions

What a Backcountry Boone trip looks like

The route

Multi-day loops and traverses built around what a park does best: high passes, river canyons, remote basins. Many routes leave the trail entirely for cross-country sections planned with maps, terrain study, and time on the ground.

The planning

Permits, itinerary, water and resupply logistics, gear lists, and training guidance are handled before you show up. You get a clear picture of the mileage, elevation, and difficulty. No surprises except the good kind.

The crew

Groups stay small. Trips have grown by word-of-mouth, friends and friends of friends, and that's the culture: capable, curious people who'd rather earn a view than drive to it.

Safety & standards

Adventure is the point.
Risk management is the craft.

Wilderness First Responder (WFR). Trained in remote medical assessment and evacuation decision-making.
Conservative route planning. Bail-out points, water contingencies, and weather margins built into every itinerary.
Leave No Trace. Off-trail travel done the right way: durable surfaces, clean camps, wild places left wild.
Registered business. Backcountry Boone is a registered U.S. company.

Boone standing above a glaciated basin deep in the mountains

About

Who's Boone?

Boone started planning multi-day routes for friends because the trips he wanted to take didn't exist as products. Too long for a weekend crowd, too far off-trail for a tour bus. Those trips kept filling by word-of-mouth, so Backcountry Boone became a company.

The goal hasn't changed: get good people deep into the best terrain in the country, safely, and have a ridiculous amount of fun doing it.

From the field