Drop the tired old tunes everyone slaps on travel videos. Catch your audience’s attention with background music that sparks real wanderlust and vibes perfectly. No matter where the adventure leads, these royalty-free tracks bring your video to life and give it the power to transport viewers right there with you. Keep reading to discover how the right sound can turn ordinary footage into an unforgettable journey.
We’ve broken down our track list into helpful themes to easily sync your footage with the best travel background music for videos—so kick off your awesome travel video with these amazing tracks.
Music for hiking and adventuring in nature
When you’re looking for nature stock music or adventure songs, don’t limit yourself to huge, cinematic soundtracks. Sometimes a quieter track works better, especially when you’re lingering on a landscape or letting a slower sequence unfold. The Storyblocks audio library has some of the best travel music for adventures (and all their tracks are exclusive, too), so let’s take a look at some key examples.
1. Hope for Change – Jon Presstone
Hope for Change is an inspirational piece with a background rhythm of uplifting guitar accompanied by happy notes from a xylophone. It continuously builds and resolves into satisfying moments perfect for transitioning to a new scene or location. It’s ideal for an introduction to your travel video or to give a joyful feeling to a montage sequence.
2. Summer Nights – The Mountain
With gentle piano and an atmospheric feel, Summer Nights is a good choice for footage that moves at an unhurried pace. It would work well with drone or nature footage, where you can give viewers time to absorb long shots of the landscape. There’s enough texture in the music to keep a sequence moving without making the scenery feel rushed.
3. Texas Country Home – Yagull Music
If you’ve ever watched one of those wonderfully relaxed TV shows about country living, this track would fit right in. The classic country guitar has a warm quality that suits rural living and the quieter side of travel. It could easily be part of the soundtrack to a homesteading video, a countryside getaway, or an introduction to a destination where the appeal is taking things slow.
It would pair perfectly with any cottage life or quiet countryside footage, like this example from the Storyblocks library:
4. Mountain Journey – Alina Chop
This beautiful mountain song uses classical guitar to provide a light, dreamy quality. It’s a song about exploring, and is particularly useful for the connective parts of a travel edit, like showcasing the road between destinations, a train journey, or a string of landscape shots before you return to the main story.
For instance, it would work over the top of footage like this, where the subject comes in and out of view in front of a beautiful landscape:
Exploring cities and sightseeing songs
A city can feel completely different depending on how you film it. Maybe you’re putting together a bright sightseeing montage, or perhaps your video follows an evening spent getting lost in unfamiliar streets.
Take a look at the following tracks to see how you can bring life to different parts of the urban experience, depending on where you are and what you’re doing.
5. Travel The World – Loops Lab
Travel The World has the upbeat acoustic guitar and country-inspired sound you’d expect from a feel-good travel soundtrack. It brings an optimistic energy to sightseeing footage and would be right at home underneath a montage of a destination’s highlights. If your edit is about the excitement of arriving somewhere new, this one gets that feeling across right away.
6. Passaro Cantando – Emi Nishida
Jazzy piano and a funky bassline give this track a completely different character to the other songs we’ve covered so far. There’s something a bit mysterious about it, making it a fun choice for an evening in the city. Try it beneath footage from a stylish restaurant or a nighttime walk when you want your destination to feel a little more cinematic or “noir”.
It’s easy to imagine this song playing over a scene like this:
7. Florescendo – Beats by Bitty
Florescendo’s slightly unusual progression makes it an interesting track to edit with. It begins with a kind of underwater atmosphere accompanied by a funky bassline, before opening into an uplifting guitar section. That change in energy can work nicely when your footage moves from one part of a city to another, giving you a natural moment for a transition.
8. Barista Blend – C.J. Harris
A strong drumbeat with underlying lo-fi production gives Barista Blend a great vibe. It features a couple of drops which can be useful when you’re making quick cuts, so it’s a good option for a sequence where you’re constantly moving through different locations in a city.
Let the rhythm carry a series of shots as you showcase the main landmarks and tourist attractions of the place you’re visiting. And while you’re at it, try filling out your video with Storyblocks’ stock footage of famous places and landmarks.
9. Strolling in Paris – Emi Nishida
The fast, jazzy bassline in Strolling in Paris gives this track the energy to match the feeling of a lively afternoon in a busy city. Try using it for street-level footage where there’s plenty happening around the camera, especially when you’re right in the middle of the action. Check out this clip for inspiration:
10. Autumn Roads – The Mountain
Autumn Roads moves along at a lively pace, with guitar and piano providing plenty of forward momentum. It’s a strong choice for driving footage, faceless videos, and travel b-roll, particularly when you’re moving between locations. The track also has enough energy to support a mix of drone shots and vlog footage without making either feel out of place.
11. Touch The Sun – Instrumental Version
With electric guitar riffs over a driving hi-hat drumbeat, this song has a big personality. It feels like the soundtrack to the moment when you’re finally sitting down in the driver’s seat and starting the car. Put it near the establishing shots of a travel video when you want to show that something exciting is about to happen.
12. I Wanna Ride With You
At its core, I Wanna Ride With You is a song about adventure. Female vocals and satisfying synths give the track a cruisy feel, making it a natural fit for the sections of your video that need a little extra momentum. It’s a good fit for the fun stuff that happens between destinations—windows down, roadside stops, singing along, and making the most of the roadtrip.
13. Rough Road – Mike Robinson
Rough Road slows things down with slide guitar and a deep, atmospheric bass tone underneath, perfect for more reflective footage. Think of the road at sunrise, a long stretch of open landscape, a quiet moment when the pace of the trip finally starts to settle. If that’s the particular tone of adventure music you’ve been searching for—relaxing background music—look no further.
Explore more music for every kind of travel
Whatever your project calls for, you’ll find plenty to explore in the Storyblocks stock music library. Every track is exclusive to Storyblocks, meaning it’s only available in our library and can give your soundtrack a more distinctive feel.
The music is also pre-licensed, so you don’t have to keep track of individual licenses for every track you use. And because the library is filled with music created by professional musicians, every download helps support their careers.
Every asset in the Storyblocks library is royalty-free, too, so there are no additional costs beyond your subscription fee. With just one subscription, you get unlimited download of 100% human-made stock footage, music, sfx, templates and images, along with access to time-saving tools for every stage of production.
Ready to find a soundtrack for your next adventure? Explore the Storyblocks music library and start creating.
