For hikers, painters, solo wanderers, and anyone who’s ever stood at a trailhead and thought: I need more of this.
Most travel planning starts with a destination. I start somewhere else.
The first question is always what you’re actually looking for. Whether you want to earn a view that takes four hours of trail to reach. Whether you want mornings reserved for painting the coastline before the crowds show up. Whether you need the kind of quiet that only comes from putting real distance between yourself and your regular life. The destination follows from that, not the other way around.
The trips I plan tend to have a few things in common. Small lodges where the staff knows the surrounding terrain and the menu changes with the season. Itineraries with room to breathe, because the best parts of any trip are usually the ones that weren’t scheduled. Landscapes that ask for your attention, not just your photos.
Hike & Hue Travel grew out of Workout Artist, a brand built around the idea that moving through nature and making things in nature are the same practice. That same thinking shapes how we plan travel. We’re not building itineraries around how much you can fit in. We’re building them around what you came for.
Plan Your Trip.
I’ve traveled to Norway, Alaska, Hawaii, Vancouver, London, and the Caribbean, and we book the kind of properties I’d stay in myself.
Firsthand stays include the Prince Waikiki in Honolulu, The US Grant in San Diego, L’Hermitage in Vancouver, and 11 Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea. We’ve sailed with Disney Cruise Line through Alaskan glacier country, the Norwegian coast, and the Caribbean. We know what it feels like when a property gets it right, and we know the difference between a hotel that photographs well and one that actually earns the stay.
Those reference points matter. They’re how we know what to look for when we’re planning yours.
The Focus
Multi-day hiking itineraries.
Trips built around trail access and terrain, not transit efficiency. Norway’s fjord country. New Zealand’s South Island. Kauai’s north shore. The Southern Appalachians. The kind of routes that take some planning to get right and are worth every bit of it.
Plein air and creative travel.
Itineraries where painting, sketching, or nature journaling is built into the schedule as the point of the trip, not squeezed around the edges of it. Landscapes chosen for light, scale, and the specific quality of a place that makes you want to put it on paper.
Boutique lodge experiences.
Properties where the building faces the right direction, the guest count is small enough to matter, and the food reflects wherever you actually are. Not a chain with a mountain backdrop. A place that couldn’t exist anywhere else.
EXPEDITION SAILING.
Some of the wildest places on earth are only reachable by water. The Antarctic Peninsula. The Galápagos Islands. The Chobe River in Botswana. For destinations like these, the vessel isn’t the experience — it’s how you get to the experience. Aurora Expeditions, Antarctica21, Ecoventura, and Zambezi Queen are the kind of small-ship operators built around that philosophy: expert naturalist guides, landings every day, and an itinerary shaped entirely by what’s outside. If you’ve ever wanted to sketch penguins at the edge of the world or watch a hundred elephants come to the river at dusk, this is the category worth planning seriously.
Nature retreat escapes.
Extended time in wild places for people who need more than a weekend to actually land somewhere. Designed around movement, rest, and the thing that happens to you after four or five days with no agenda except the trail.
Solo travel.
Trips planned for one person, shaped around one person’s pace. The logistics sorted, the right properties selected, the itinerary built so that traveling alone feels like a choice rather than a compromise.
Small-group cultural trips.
The restaurant the locals go to. The viewpoint before anyone else gets there. The version of a place that requires someone who knows it to find.
Hike & Hue Travel is affiliated with Fora, one of the country’s leading host travel agencies. That means clients get access to exclusive hotel perks, room upgrades, and preferred partner rates that aren’t available through direct booking or standard platforms. Not a small thing when the properties we’re booking run $500 a night and up.
Plan A Trip
Tell us about the trip you’re thinking about.
It doesn’t have to be fully formed. A place you keep coming back to. A kind of experience you’ve been looking for and haven’t found the right version of. A trip you’ve been putting off because the planning felt like too much.
That’s exactly where we start. Plan Your Trip. We’ll be in touch within 48-72 hours.