15 Travel Blog Post Ideas For Your Weekend Trip
Travel bloggers: if you’re running low on ideas, here’s a list of blog post topics with real-life examples to inspire your own travel content.
Travel is one of the most popular blogging niches and offers plenty of content ideas, and it’s one of the best types of blogs that make money, but if you’re short on inspiration, I’ve put together a list of 50 travel blog post ideas to help get your gears goin’.
If you get a lot of your traffic from Google or Pinterest, you may know that a lot of travel content is templated the same. So people look up “best day trips from…” and then add their city of choice.
The key, then, is to find some of these popular templates and angle them to your blog, audience and topic. If you can do that, you’ll have a treasure trove of travel blog topics to choose from. Let’s go!
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Trips & Transportation Ideas
- Day trips
A lot of travelers like to find day trips from a particular city or hub they’ll be visiting.
For example, here in Arizona, a lot of people look up “day trips from Phoenix” and searches like that.
This is a great travel blog post idea because the number of hubs you can research is almost unending.
Some popular types of angles and examples:
- day trips from Phoenix (any big city)
- day trips around Paris
- day trips by train from London
- Road trips
My wife, kids and I love road trips, and we’ve tackled routes all over the southwest, midwest and northeast.
So this is a blog post idea I love and have personally searched for (and written about) over the years.
This is also a great blog post category because of the number of variations you can include in your itineraries.
A road trip with kids in the southwest, for example, looks a lot different than an romantic outdoorsy road trip in the Pacific Northwest.
You can also throw in all sorts of helpful content, including where to stay, what to eat and the best times to plan your road trip.
- Weekend trips
Living in Phoenix, we’re also big on weekend trips – anywhere to get out of the heat during the summer.
Weekend trip posts are great because you can string together a few places together, or focus on one city or destination.
- Scenic drives
Like road trips, scenic drives are a great topic because of the endless variation and customization you can add to your content.
Just about every region or state gets searches related to scenic drives, so this is an easy one to cover wherever you live or travel.
5. Train rides
Train rides have a romantic throwback vibe that make them a timeless classic in the world of travel blogging.
You can review a specific route, or curate a list of the best train rides in a region.
- Dog-friendly trips
Traveling with four-legged friends isn’t always easy, so many travelers find it helpful to look up things to do and places to stay with their dogs.
For more ideas on traveling with pets, check out BringFrido, a directory for travelers with dogs.
- Public transportation options
In big cities or foreign countries, travelers like to know which public transportation options are best.
You can also write about places where it’s best to get a rental car, or where you’ll want to rely heavily on subways, taxis or walking.
This can be part of a larger “what to do” article, but if you find a place that has enough options and content, it can work as a standalone article.
- Things to do with kids
Traveling with kids – especially babies and toddlers – brings a whole new level of research and prep work to the table, even for quick weekend trips.
The first few trips my wife and I took with our baby twins were a real wake-up call compared to the casual, jam-packed trips we normally took as a couple.
Fortunately for blogger, this means lots of content opportunities for travelers with kids.
In addition to things to do, you can also look at where to eat with kids or which places are kid-appropriate.
- Things to do at night
Most travel destinations have laundry lists of things to do, but things to do at night is a different story.
These might by more nightlife-based attractions, but it also may include tours and places to see that are best at nighttime.
This particular article is great for big cities with a lot going on – think New York City, Barcelona, Los Angeles.
- Things to do alone
Solo travelers need ideas too, and this is a great way to niche down into a unique “things to do article.”
These articles can include places to visit, where to eat and where to stay if you’re traveling solo.
- Things to do in specific seasons
Travel attractions vary by place and season – what you do in NYC during the summer is a lot different than what you do there in the winter.
By covering one specific season, you’re able to make a useful, unique list of things to do that’s more helpful than a generic checklist that might not apply throughout the whole year.
- Romantic things to do
There are a few variations here, but the idea with these articles is to write about things to do for couples.
Of course, there are more romantic places than others, but you’d be surprised to learn how many people are looking up stuff like “romantic things to do in Prescott,” which means you can write these types of posts for just about anywhere.
- Non-touristy things to do
Here’s where this type of post gets really interesting: the tourist looking to do non-touristy things.
They’re tired of the same old attractions and want something off the beaten path. So give it to them!
If you’re relying just on research, this article can be difficult to write, but if you have firsthand knowledge of a place where you’ve explored non-touristy attractions, it’s a great way to differentiate your content.
It’s also a great topic to keep in mind for future travels – when you hit a new city, see if you can find under-the-radar attractions and places that would work well for this type of travel post.
- Free things to do
Typically, this type of content is part of a larger, broad things to do article, but if you can find enough free things to do in the area of your choice, there’s no reason it can’t be its own blog post.
You can also get creative with these types of posts because you include anything that’s free. So don’t fail to mention visiting a good park or taking a walking route through a city, such as the Freedom Trail in Boston.
- What not to do
Like #13, this is about avoiding the tourist traps that plague larger places, and instead focusing on the things and attractions that are actually worthwhile.
That said, sometimes big touristy draws are still worth it, other times they aren’t. If you’re passing through the four corners in the southwest, for example, you may or may not want to stop at the Four Corners Monument – some travelers dig it, others see it as an kitschy tourist attraction.
These lists can also be about etiquette, safety and travel habits – what you shouldn’t do in other cities in order to stay safe and have a good time.