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2025's Best Adventure Destination
Mountains to Pacific: a full-spectrum adventure state
Best Adventure Destination of 2025
Most travelers know Oaxaca for its cuisine and mezcal. Fewer realize it’s also one of the most adventure-dense places in North America. In a single state, you can move from cloud forests threaded with singletrack to Pacific beaches with powerful surf, all shaped by Indigenous land stewardship and community-led ecotourism.
From Zapotec villages in the Sierra Norte to the turtle nesting beaches near Mazunte, Oaxaca pairs dramatic landscapes with trail networks, cabin stays, and guiding projects that keep tourism revenue local. That mountain-to-sea range makes Oaxaca our pick for the best adventure destination of 2025.
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