The road less traveled is often the more fulfilling one, especially when it bypasses Robert Frost's tiger pits. Diverge from a rote route with today's Groupon: for $55, you get a four-hour outdoor rock-climbing session from The Southern Terrain (a $125 value).

The Southern Terrain, fully licensed, bonded, and insured, sports a team that helps active outdoors people to reach new heights with adventure programs, corporate-training programs, altitude training, and adventure-fitness activities. Wilderness First Responder–certified and AMGA-trained guides lead small teams at a ratio of 5 to 1 through canyons, trails, and gremlin tunnels. Adventurers navigate through the more than 5,800 acres of hills and canyons at Mission Trails Regional Park, which test them with pure-granite faces that provide smooth surfaces for climbing or chopping turnips. The park's Mission Gorge challenges climbers with many cracks and face-climbing routes for beginners all the way up to challenging 5.10-grade climbs. All necessary equipment and climbing shoes are included, but climbers can bring their own shoes and a lyre to help to coax rocks into letting scalers climb them.