The Frugal Voyager | Offbeat & Budget Travel in the USA

A beautiful collage of underrated US travel destinations featuring the Fire Wave in Valley of Fire, Colorado's Great Sand Dunes, and the sandstone sea caves of Apostle Islands,  Frugal Voyager Roundups 5 Underrated US Destinations That Feel Like Another Planet (But Aren’t Crowded Yet!) Let’s be honest: our travel bucket lists are starting to look identical. We see the same three or four overcrowded national parks and overpriced coastal resort towns saturating our social feeds. But if you are willing to steer your car off the well-beaten interstate highways, you will find a different kind of America. One of towering red desert waves, pristine sea caves, windswept New England clay cliffs, and eccentric fantasy palaces—all waiting to be discovered without the crushing crowds or bank-breaking costs. In a world where popular travel spots are suffering from historic levels of overtourism, "slow travel" and offbeat explo...

Frugal Voyager Weird USA Inside The House on the Rock: Exploring Wisconsin’s Weirdest and Most Mind-Bending Attraction Perched precariously on a chimney-like column of rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sits a structure that defies architectural logic, sanity, and explanation. What started in the $1940\text{s}$ as a retreat built by an eccentric man named Alex Jordan has evolved into a sprawling, labyrinthine museum of the strange, the beautiful, and the deeply surreal. From a room that juts out over a $150\text{-foot}$ gorge with no support pillars underneath, to the world's largest, most terrifyingly beautiful indoor carousel, this is a journey into a dreamer's obsession. When most people think of the American Midwest, they envision peaceful rolling hills, quiet family dairy farms, and infinite fields of corn stretching to the horizon. But if you take a detour deep into the woods of southwestern Wisconsin, you will find something ...

An orange kayak floating on crystal-clear emerald water inside a red sandstone sea cave at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands: The Secret Sea Caves and Hidden Kayak Trails of Lake Superior If you think you need to travel to the Caribbean or the Mediterranean to kayak through crystal-clear turquoise waters and explore mysterious sea caves, think again. Tucked away on the northernmost tip of Wisconsin, where the wild waters of Lake Superior meet the sky, lies the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Here, millions of years of wind and waves have carved intricate arches, deep caverns, and grand pillared chambers directly into the red sandstone cliffs. For decades, the American Midwest has been unfairly pigeonholed as a monotonous expanse of flat cornfields and quiet dairy farms. But those who dare to travel further north eventually hit the coast of Lake Superior, a freshwater sea so massive that it generates its ...

Scenic landscape of the dramatic 150-foot clay Mohegan Bluffs and the iconic wooden staircase leading down to a rocky beach on Block Island, Rhode Island,  Frugal Voyager Guides The Ultimate Block Island Rhode Island Travel Guide: Why You Should Ditch Newport This Summer There is a tiny, tear-drop-shaped island sitting twelve miles off the coast of Rhode Island that feels entirely frozen in time. While the wealthy crowds pack the streets of Newport and Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island quietly offers rolling green hills, dramatic $150\text{-foot}$ clay cliffs dropping into a roaring Atlantic, and miles of free, untouched sandy beaches. It’s a place where cars are optional, bicycles are king, and the local dress code is simply "salty hair and sun-kissed shoulders." We’ve all seen the postcard images of New England’s summer escapes. Oversized yachts docked in historic harbors, private beach clubs with astronomical entry ...