Trails

125 trails to walk

Filter by when, how long and how hard, then compare the trails side by side.

Filters

Season

Matches: Trails whose season includes any month you pick
Season: What the trail's managers recommend; outside it, huts and services may be closed or snow may block the way

Continents and countries

Matches: Trails through any place you pick; pick as many as you like
Continents: Include all their countries; picking one of their countries narrows the choice to it

Walking days

Days: As the trail's managers suggest for the whole route
Ranges: A range like 6–8 days matches if it overlaps yours

Any length

Difficulty

Ratings

From each trail page's Difficulty section: Easy to Hard, the same thresholds for every trail

Sliders

Left thumb the least, right thumb 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

Easyup to 4 h
Moderate4–6 h
Demanding6–8 h
Hardmore

TerrainAny

ClimateAny

Effort, longest dayAny

Landscape

Matches: At least 20 % of the main route is a landscape you pick (any of them)
Source: ESA WorldCover satellite land cover

Ground underfoot

Matches: At least this share of the main route on natural ground
Source: OpenStreetMap's surface tags
On the cards: The bar under each profile shows the mix:

Natural: earth, grass, rock
Gravel
Paved

Any

Where to sleep

Matches: Trails that offer 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.

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
Exact rule: On each trail page

Water

Matches

The longest stretch of the main route without water is at most this long

Clean water

Taps, fountains and drinking springs in OpenStreetMap, or a refill at a hut, hostel, guest house or campsite

Any water

Springs too: water of unknown quality you filter, boil or treat

Trail pages

Frequentup to 10 km
Regularup to 20 km
Scarcebeyond

Any

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