Available or popular sports in or around Beiuş are: fresh water fishing (trout, catfish, carp, barbel chub dace and at least a dozen other edible species), speleology (spelunking), soccer (Sunday soccer is a local ritual for all ages), skiing, snowboarding, sledding, tennis, hiking, camping, backpacking and rock climbing.
In 1990, Bruce Poon Tip founded G.A.P Adventures (later renamed G Adventures) at the age of twenty-two from his apartment in Toronto, following a backpacking trip to Asia.
They meet tour guide Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko), and are joined by a backpacking couple, Norwegian Zoe (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) and Australian Michael (Nathan Phillips).
In 2007, Francis Tapon became the first person to do a round backpacking trip "Yo-Yo" on the Continental Divide Trail when he thru-hiked from Mexico to Canada and back to Mexico along the CDT and needed 7 months to finish it.
Perhaps his most notable accomplishment was that he was the first person to do a round-trip backpacking the Continental Divide Trail.
Bruce Poon Tip founded Gap Adventures (Gap being an acronym for "Great Adventure People") in 1990 after returning from a backpacking tour of Asia.
Hiking and backpacking opportunities abound on the Ozark Trail and the White's Creek Trail.
Backpacking treks usually utilize the Northville-Placid Trail that stretches from Lake Placid to Northville, New York.