back country
Example Sentences
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They include areas popular with hillwalkers, climbers and back country skiers.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Regardless of whether you spend your days relaxing along the South Fork, or hit the back country for more rugged hiking, you will return home feeling refreshed and energized.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024
In a cemetery on a back country road near Sacramento, three rows of granite gravestones bear the same inscription: “Unknown, moved from Negro Hill Cemetery by the U.S. Government — 1954.”
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024
“They were in the back country to camp.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023
The annals of Appalachian Trail hikes are full of tales of hikers being mugged by bears in the back country of the Smokies.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
