Extreme-sports tourism that employs active travel – hiking, skiing, biking, and horse-riding – is especially popular in areas that have preserved their unique landscape. These include, first of all, Russia that can offer plain, swamps, and steppes, as well as highlands and even deserts.

Pyatigorsk regularly hosts Championship and Russian National Contest in Extreme Mountain biking, while the Caucasian Mineral Waters annually host the International Balloon Festival CAUCASIAN MINERAL WATERS – PEARL OF RUSSIA.

In Kochubeevsky Rayon you can enjoy rafting down the Kuban with routes of various complexity.

In Apanasenkovsky Rayon extreme-sports tourism has taken a different turn – at the camp of Manych-Gudilo visitors are offered plane-tours, and the season is round the year. Flights (on flex-wing trikes) are performed twice a day accompanied by experienced pilots are done above the area of Lake Manych-Gudilo and its banks. You shall enjoy a bird eye view of the vast area of Apanasenkovsky Rayon, the lake, and the diversity of animals and birds, and even feel yourself one of these.

Another option is to learn to fly a plane or a flex-wing trike, finally getting awarded an amateur pilot certificate.

Types of tourism:

Automobile tourism

Mountaineering

Mountain Hiking

Diving

Jeeping

Industrial tourism, including the digger (caving)

Kayaking

Hiking

Rafting

Hitchhiking, etc.

For active recreation are, as usual for Russia, hunting, fishing, and all "colourstyle" and adventure trips: rafting, diving, trekking, tours, mountaineering, skiing and more.

The main features of this type of tourism:

- focused primarily on young people and people of the first middle age (25-40 years);

- high integration into other types: beach, ecological, excursion-informative;

- this type of tourism is developing most rapidly and with a very high degree of differentiation. Every year there is from 2 to 5 new kinds of extreme journeys that find their admirers, and the number of active tourists growing at 7% annually.

The most rapidly developing ski area. In Stavropol Krai there are no ski facilities that can compete with the objects in Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi, Russia), Dombai (Karachay-Cherkessia), Elbrus (Kabardino-Balkaria). Therefore, the region is focused on the development of such areas of active recreation such as rafting, bike tours (including mountain Biking), climbing, flying hang gliders and paragliders, horseback riding, Hiking, caving.

The basic investment project for the development of tourism can serve as a Playground "Grand SPA Yutsa" in the Foothill district of the Stavropol territory. The basic direction – extreme kinds of tourism on mount Yutsa. There are plans to develop ultra-light aircraft, paintball, off-road racing. On them it is planned to create educational and sports clubs, which will conduct the training beginners to carry out commercial projects, to take on their database competitions at various levels.

In the resort city of Pyatigorsk are the championship and Championship of Russia in the extreme types of mountain Biking.

Every year in the region of Caucasian Mineral Waters hosts an international balloon festival "Caucasian Mineral Water - the Pearl of Russia".

Kochubeevskom area to tourists may be offered rafting on the river Kuban with routes of varying difficulty.

Apanasenkovskom area extreme-sports tourism actively develops on the basis of the CURRENT "Manych-Gudilo", where tourists are offered air tours. The season runs year-round tours. The flights are operated twice a day accompanied by experienced pilots ultralights and aircraft in the vicinity of lake Manych-Gudilo and on its coast. From the height of bird's flight you can enjoy the vast expanses of Apanasenkova, a width and splendor of lake Manych-Gudilo, various species of birds and animals and even to feel, how to be a bird.

You can also learn to control the aircraft or ultralights, and at the end of the training receive the certificate of the Amateur pilot.