Running while on vacation: a travel experience for runners.
 

Runcation Travel creates international running adventures for runners by runners. Instead of having to squeeze in a run on vacation, your run becomes the vehicle for exploring and learning about a new country, new culture, and a new landscape. Our 'Runcations,' or running vacations, offer a chance to disconnect, meet new friends, and travel long distance routes through some awe-inspiring landscapes. You also cover some pretty impressive mileage up and down mountains along the way.

Our running vacations were inspired with combining the simplicity of running hut-to-hut in the mountains with the comforts of a vacation. This type of experience has inspired the current trail running retreats we offer, with the added comfort of baggage transport and curated specialty mountain lodges, from mountain huts to 4-star hotels. Even the mountain huts, with 3-course dinners, full bars, comfortable beds, and prime views, are appropriate for a true running vacation.

Our Runcations began with groups of like-minded runners sharing and appreciating the gift of trail running through beautiful places with one another. While our trail running guides are local expert mountain guides and International Mountain Leaders and we’ve taken care of all the details and logistics for you, we like to think our running vacations have the feel of running with your pals and a few local expert friends (even if you just met them at the start of the trip)!

Our current Runcations include guided and self-guided trail running tours all over the world, ranging from hut-to-hut and hotel-to-hotel trail running adventures to guided daily trail runs from a sweet hotel base camp. We’ve scouted out the best trail running destinations and offer running holidays in the Italian Dolomites, Chamonix Mont Blanc, Argentinian Patagonia, Slovenia, Peru, California’s Sierra Nevada, the French and Spanish Pyrenees, the Balkans, and more.

We also offer custom and private Runcations for groups and teams, whether it’s a reunion for running buds, team offsite, honeymoon, or epic birthday party. We offer Runcations are for every level of runner (see our trip difficulty page to learn more about trip levels and which running trip is right for you) and you can hear from our participants directly here. Visit our retreats section to learn more about the latest offerings, or subscribe to keep in touch with the latest happenings. Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you on a trip soon!

About the Founder + Owner:

Following a 5-year competitive run at the NCAA Division 1 level at Columbia university and usc, Liz Gill has been coaching at the high school, collegiate, and adult level since 2009. She’s the founder of Runcation Travel, a woman-owned adventure travel business, which provides international running retreats and adventures for avid runners. Along with her experience guiding backpacking, kayaking, and high altitude training trips around the world, she also holds an MS in Kinesiology where she studied the benefits of outdoor adventure therapy on young adult cancer survivors and worked in adapted physical activity. Liz is passionate about sharing the joys of movement in the outdoors and reminding people to take a vacation.