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; plus a gifting option)
Voyager Subscription: $50/year or $5/month (digital plan; plus a gifting option)
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.
Quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Weekly emails with full access to paywalled feature stories, heirloom recipes, curated travel itineraries, and Q&As with rural artisans and storytellers.
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:
Quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Weekly emails with full access to paywalled feature stories, heirloom recipes, curated travel itineraries, and Q&As with rural artisans and storytellers.
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:
Quarterly emails announcing our latest issue.
Monthly Backroad Bulletin emails.
Weekly previews of paywalled content.
Cost: $0
Choose the None option on the payment page.
Gift a Subscription
If you know someone who loves to travel America’s backroads and is looking for new destinations to explore across the Southeast, gift a paid subscription to Backroad Portfolio this holiday season. It’s so much more enriching and inspirational than a new pair of PJs or an appliance. Plus, we’ve provided a printable gift message you can give to let the recipient know about the gift.
If you’d like to purchase more than one subscription, use our holiday group discount purchase links below. To use this discount, you must purchase at least two subscriptions. So, if you’re currently a free subscriber, you can purchase one for yourself and one for someone else and get the group 30% off discount on either our Explorer (print) or Voyager (digital) subscriptions. If you’re already one of our upgraded subscribers, you can use these links to purchase gift subscription for at least two others.
You can also purchase an individual print issue of Backroad Portfolio for $20. 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.