Elevate Your Backroad Portfolio Experience
Choose from our Explorer, Voyager, or Wanderer subscriptions
We offer three ways for you to subscribe to Backroad Portfolio.
Explorer Subscription: $70 (print + digital; annual plan only)
Voyager Subscription: $50/year or $5/month (digital plan)
Wanderer Subscription: $0 (free plan; many posts are paywalled)
Explorer subscribers receive full access to all content, including:
Our quarterly print issue1, which comes out as each new season begins.
Unpaywalled quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Unpaywalled monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Unpaywalled weekly story emails.
Access to our full archive.
The opportunity to share content with our readers. Click HERE for a story shared by two of our Explorers.
Cost: $70/year.
Choose the Explorer option on the payment page.
If you prefer a digital reading experience, the Voyager subscription is for you. This plan includes full access to:
Unpaywalled quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Unpaywalled monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Unpaywalled weekly story emails.
Cost: $5/month or $50/year
Choose the Monthly or Annual option on the payment page.
If you’ve received an email from us, you’re already on the Wanderer plan. If you haven’t, you can sign up at the link below. The Wanderer plan includes:
Unpaywalled quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Unpaywalled monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Weekly previews of our paywalled content.
Cost: $0
Choose the None option on the payment page.
Gift a Subscription
Our subscriptions also make wonderful gifts. Consider giving an upgraded subscription to someone who enjoys backroad explorations.
You can also purchase an individual print issue of Backroad Portfolio for $18. Unless you request otherwise, you’ll receive our most recent issue. Limited supplies of back issues are also available.
Questions? Email us at backroadportfolio@gmail.com.
Each large-format issue of Backroad Portfolio is printed in perfect-bound format on beautiful, archival quality paper. Annual subscriptions consist of four issues per year that are published at the turn of each season.