Trails

Narrow the list down by when you can go, how long and how hard, and how you want to sleep. Every card shows the season, the elevation profile on one scale for all trails, and the ground underfoot.

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Season

A trail matches if its season includes any of the months you pick. The season is what the trail's managers recommend; outside it, huts and services may be closed or snow may block the way.

Continents and countries

Pick as many as you like; a trail matches if it runs through any of them.

A continent includes all its countries. Picking a country within a chosen continent narrows the choice to that country.

Walking days

The number of days the trail's managers suggest for the whole route. Where they give a range, such as 6–8 days, the trail matches if that range overlaps yours.

Any length

Difficulty

The ratings on each trail page's Difficulty section, from Easy to Hard with the same thresholds for every trail. Slide either end: the left thumb for the least, the right for the most you want. Once you set one, trails without that rating drop out.

Terrain: The path grade (SAC scale), how much and how steeply it climbs, and how much is natural ground.
Climate: Heat, cold, wet days, snow and wind: in the months you picked above (within the trail's season), or over its whole season.
Effort: The longest day: up to 4 h is easy, 4–6 h moderate, 6–8 h demanding, more is hard.

TerrainAny

ClimateAny

Effort, longest dayAny

Landscape

What the trail passes through, from ESA WorldCover satellite land cover: a trail matches if at least 20 % of its main route is a landscape you pick (any of them).

Ground underfoot

The share of the main route on natural ground at least, from OpenStreetMap's surface tags. The bar under each card's profile shows the mix:

Natural: earth, grass, rock
Gravel
Paved

Any

Where to sleep

A trail matches if it offers every kind you pick.

Camping: Official campsites along the trail. Bring your own tent.
Huts: Mountain huts (often staffed, with meals) and unstaffed bivouac shelters, usually on the trail itself.
Hostels: Dormitory beds for walkers: hostels, hiker lodges and pilgrim hostels.
Rooms: Private rooms, usually in villages near the trail: B&Bs, guesthouses, hotels, farm stays and monastery guesthouses.

Beds along the route

The longest stretch of the main route without a hut, campsite, hostel or guest house mapped in OpenStreetMap (within 1 km of the trail or 3 km of a stage's end; hotels are not counted) must be at most this long.

Any

Wild camping

Possible: Allowed, or allowed only in certain places or under rules, such as designated bivouac sites.
Allowed: Pitching a tent outside campsites is allowed along the trail.

Each trail page gives the exact rule.

Water

The longest stretch of the main route without clean water (taps, fountains and drinking springs mapped in OpenStreetMap, or a refill at a hut, hostel, guest house or campsite) must be at most this long.

Any water counts springs too: water of unknown quality you filter, boil or treat.

Trail pages rate it in three steps:

Frequent: Clean water (a tap, or a refill at a place to sleep) at least every 10 km.
Regular: Clean water at least every 20 km.
Scarce: Stretches of more than 20 km without.

Any

Shops along the route

The longest stretch of the main route without a supermarket, convenience or general store or a petrol station with a shop mapped in OpenStreetMap (within 1 km of the trail or 3 km of a stage's end) must be at most this long. Small village shops are often missing in OpenStreetMap.

Any

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Trails

Alpe-Adria-Trail

Baiersbronner Seensteig

Camí de Cavalls

Camino Francés

Coast to Coast Path

Cotswold Way

Eifelsteig

Forststeig Elbe Sandstone

Goldsteig

GR 20

Harzer Hexen-Stieg

Hermannshöhen

Kungsleden

Laugavegur

MacLehose Trail

Merano High Mountain Trail

Milford Track

Moselsteig

Offa's Dyke Path

Országos Kéktúra

Path of Sacred Forests

Rothaarsteig

Sauerland-Waldroute

Soonwaldsteig

Tour du Mont Blanc

W Trek

West Coast Trail

West Highland Way

Westweg

Whale Trail

Trails

Matching trails

Alpe-Adria-Trail

Baiersbronner Seensteig

Camí de Cavalls

Camino Francés

Coast to Coast Path

Cotswold Way

Eifelsteig

Forststeig Elbe Sandstone

Goldsteig

GR 20

Harzer Hexen-Stieg

Hermannshöhen

Kungsleden

Laugavegur

MacLehose Trail

Merano High Mountain Trail

Milford Track

Moselsteig

Offa's Dyke Path

Országos Kéktúra

Path of Sacred Forests

Rothaarsteig

Sauerland-Waldroute

Soonwaldsteig

Tour du Mont Blanc

W Trek

West Coast Trail

West Highland Way

Westweg

Whale Trail