Country Roads Magazine

What Country Roads Magazine does

Country Roads Magazine is an independent, privately held regional cultural magazine founded in 1983 and headquartered in St. Francisville, Louisiana. It produces a monthly print publication covering events, festivals, art, cuisine, travel, history, music, and outdoor activities across South Louisiana and Mississippi, with editorial content curated by regional writers rather than algorithmically generated. The company distributes printed copies to 250+ retail locations across the Capital Region, South Louisiana, and Southwest Mississippi, and operates a digital edition alongside an Issuu-hosted back-issue archive. Its product surface includes print and digital subscriptions, a weekly email newsletter reaching 14,000+ subscribers, an events and festivals calendar, and the BonTempsTix local event ticketing integration.

The business generates revenue through three primary streams: print subscriptions delivered via USPS, digital edition subscriptions, and print and digital advertising sold to local and regional businesses. The go-to-market motion is sales-led on the advertising side and subscription-driven on the consumer side, with email newsletters serving as both retention and demand-generation channels. The underlying technology stack is built on the Metro Publisher CMS, with no proprietary AI or machine-learning components disclosed. The publication is operated by a small team (11-50 employees) led by Managing Editor Jordan LaHaye Fontenot and Publisher James Fox-Smith, and there is no indication of venture capital, private equity, or parent company ownership.

Name

Country Roads Magazine

Legal name

Country Roads Magazine

Website

https://countryroadsmagazine.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Country Roads Magazine is an independently owned regional cultural magazine founded in 1983, publishing monthly print and digital coverage of events, art, cuisine, and travel across South Louisiana and Mississippi, with subscriptions, advertising, and event ticketing as revenue streams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Cultural Magazine

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Culture & Literary Magazines (MPAJAEAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Travel & Outdoors Magazines (MPAJAEAH)

Keywords

• Regional cultural magazine
• Print and digital publishing
• Lifestyle and travel content
• Arts and cuisine coverage
• Event listing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Baton Rouge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Print Subscriptions: Monthly print magazine delivered to subscribers via USPS bulk rate or first-class mail
2. Digital Edition Subscriptions: Online digital edition access
3. Advertising: Print and digital advertising space sold to local and regional businesses

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Country Roads Magazine is a monthly print and digital cultural magazine covering events, festivals, art, cuisine, travel, history, music, and outdoor adventures across South Louisiana and Mississippi, published continuously since 1983. The publication is distributed through print subscriptions mailed via USPS and at 250+ physical retail locations across the Capital Region, South Louisiana, and Southwest Mississippi. The brand extends to a digital edition, weekly email newsletters reaching 14,000+ subscribers, an events and festivals calendar, and the BonTempsTix local event ticketing integration.

Product overview

Country Roads Magazine is a single unified print and digital magazine product offering focused on cultural coverage of South Louisiana and Mississippi. The core product consists of the monthly magazine available in both print (via subscription and retail distribution to 250+ locations) and digital editions. The magazine's digital ecosystem includes BonTempsTix for event ticketing, email newsletters with over 14,000 subscribers, an events and festivals calendar covering multiple regional areas, and a digital archive via Issuu. The publication is organized around major content categories including Art & Culture (History, House & Home, Visual & Performing Arts, People & Places, Literature, Music), Cuisine (Restaurants, Foodways, Recipes, Small Town Chefs, Art of Food), Travel (Getaways, Outdoor Adventures, CR Overnight), Outdoors (Knowing Nature, Gardening), and Living With Art.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BonTempsTix: Local event ticketing service operated by Country Roads Magazine
• The Sweet Spot Cocktail Trail

Products and services

• Country Roads Magazine (Print and Digital Magazine) A monthly cultural magazine covering events, festivals, art, cuisine, travel, history, music, and outdoor adventures across South Louisiana and Mississippi, published continuously since 1983 and available in print and digital editions.
• Digital Edition Online digital version of Country Roads Magazine accessible via web browser for readers who prefer digital consumption.
• Print Subscription Monthly print subscription delivered via USPS, available in standard bulk rate or first-class shipping options, with copies distributed to 250+ locations throughout the Capital Region and South Louisiana.
• Email Newsletters Weekly email newsletters delivering curated event recommendations, cultural news, and editorial picks to subscribers, with over 14,000 subscribers receiving weekly editors' picks for the best cultural events in the region (Tuesday and Thursday editions).
• Events & Festivals Calendar Comprehensive calendar of regional events including Baton Rouge, New Orleans Area, Acadiana, Felicianas & Natchez, Northshore, and Gulf Coast events, with event submission guidelines and deadlines.
• Digital Archive (Issuu) Historical digital archive of past magazine issues accessible through the Issuu platform for readers seeking back issues.
• BonTempsTix Local event ticketing integration enabling readers to purchase tickets to regional events and festivals featured in the magazine, operated as a sub-brand of Country Roads Magazine.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BonTempsTixminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal event ticketing integration partnership. BonTempsTix provides local event ticketing services featured on the Country Roads Magazine website, enabling readers to purchase tickets to regional events.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Southern Living: A Time Inc./Dotdash Meredith national lifestyle magazine covering Southern food, travel, and culture. Overlaps with Country Roads on travel, cuisine, and outdoors content but operates at vastly larger scale and broader Southern geography, representing a broad incumbent benchmark.

Emerging players

• The Bitter Southerner: A digital-first publication celebrating Southern culture, food, music, and identity. Comparable in editorial niche (cultural storytelling for the South) but operates without a print product, representing an adjacent digital-native model Country Roads could learn from or expand into.
• Atchafalaya Voices: A Louisiana-focused cultural and literary publication exploring regional heritage, foodways, and storytelling. Highly thematic overlap with Country Roads' cultural mission but operates as a smaller, more literary-leaning publication.

Direct peers

• Garden & Gun: A Southern lifestyle magazine covering food, travel, music, sporting culture, and the outdoors. Closely comparable in topic mix to Country Roads (cuisine, travel, outdoors, music) but operates at national scale, making it a scaled direct comparator.
• Oxford American: An Arkansas-based literary and cultural magazine covering the American South with long-form narrative journalism. Operates a similar print + digital editorial model with regional subscriptions and ticketed events, making it a near-direct comparator to Country Roads' arts, culture, and literature coverage.
• New Orleans Magazine: A long-running monthly city/regional magazine focused on New Orleans dining, arts, music, and culture. Operates within an overlapping South Louisiana cultural geography and serves an audience with strong interest in festivals, cuisine, and arts — directly comparable to Country Roads' core reader.
• 64 Parishes: A Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities publication exploring Louisiana history, culture, and literature. Operates in the same South Louisiana cultural publishing space with overlapping interests in history, art, and literary content, making it a thematic comparator.

Regional players

• Bayou Life: A South Louisiana lifestyle and culture magazine focused on Cajun and Creole food, music, and people. Operates in a highly overlapping regional niche with Country Roads and targets a very similar audience in Acadiana and surrounding parishes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CountryRoadsMag
• Facebookfacebook.com/CountryRoadsMag
• Instagraminstagram.com/countryroadsmag

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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