Definition of Trekking:
An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.~Author Unknown
- Torres del Paine
- 6-8 day Paine Circuit
- Trek to Everest Base Camp
- an 18-day trail to the base camp of Mt.Everest
- Annapurna Circuit
- a 3-week loop trek through the Annapurna range
- Cordillera Blanca & Cordillera Huayhuash near Huaráz
- 10- to 14-day trek on the Huayhuash Circuit
- 3-4day Santa Cruz trek
- ~10 day Alpamayo Circuit
- Sacred Valley near Cuzco
- Several variants of the Inca trail, from single-day to more than 6 days, all ending at Machu Picchu
Trekking Gear Lists
- Beginners Trekking Gear List
- Acadia Trekking Gear List
- Grand Canyon Hike 2009 Gear List
- Grand Canyon Hike 2008 Gear List
- Ecuador Oyacache Gorge Gear List
- Canadian Rockies Gear List
- Appalachian Trail Gear List
This is a list of some long-distance footpaths around the world grouped by continent and then by country.
The Americas
- Argentina
- Los Glaciares
- Various Options to Laguna Torre, Cerro FitzRoy, or even out onto the Southern Patagonian Ice Field
- Los Glaciares
- Bolivia
- Cordillera Real
- 7 Day Illampu Circuit
- Cordillera Real
- Canada
- Chile
- Torres del Paine
- 6-8 day Paine Circuit
- Torres del Paine
- Peru
- Cordillera Blanca & Cordillera Huayhuash near Huaráz
- 10- to 14-day trek on the Huayhuash Circuit
- 3-4day Santa Cruz trek
- ~10 day Alpamayo Circuit
- Sacred Valley near Cuzco
- Several variants of the Inca trail, from single-day to more than 6 days, all ending at Machu Picchu
- Choquequirao 5+ days
- 5 to 6 day trek on the Ausangate Circuit
- Colca Canyon near Arequipa
- Various Single-day hikes and multi-day treks in and around the Canyon
- United States
Asia
- Nepal
- Trek to Everest Base Camp, an 18-day trail to the base camp of Mt.Everest (see Everest Base Camp Trek at wikitravel)
- Annapurna Circuit
- a 3-week loop trek through the Annapurna range
- Bhutan
- Snowman Trek, a 21-day hike through the Himalayas
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Trail -
- across Hong Kong Island (50 km)
- Lantau Trail -
- on Lantau Island (70 km)
- Wilson Trail -
- from Stanley, Hong Kong Island to Nam Chung, New Territories (78 km)
- MacLehose Trail
- and many other hiking trails, family walks, nature trails in the country parks in Hong Kong.
- Hong Kong Trail -
- Israel
- Israel National Trail -
- 1000 km, all of them inside the Green Line, from kibbutz Dan to Eilat (north to south), covering many historic and scenic points including some urban areas.
- Jesus Trail -
- 120 km in the Galilee region, connecting important sites from the life of Jesus. The trail begins in Nazareth and passes through Sepphoris, Cana, the horns of Hattin, Arbel Cliffs, Capernaum, Tabgha, the Mount of Beatitudes, the Jordan River, and Mount Tabor.
- Israel National Trail -
- Japan
- Hokkaidō Nature Trail: 4,585 kilometres (2,849 mi) all over the island of Hokkaidō
- Tōhoku Nature Trail: 4,374 kilometres (2,718 mi) within prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima
- Chubu Hokuriku Nature Trail: 4,029 kilometres (2,504 mi) within prefectures of Gunma, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Gifu and Shiga
- Metropolitan Area Nature Trail: 1,800 kilometres (1,100 mi) within prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tōkyō and Kanagawa
- Tōkaidō Nature Trail: 1,697 kilometres (1,054 mi) from Tokyo to Osaka via prefectures of Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Aichi, Shiga, Gifu, Mie, Kyōto and Nara
- Kinki Nature Trail: 3,291 kilometres (2,045 mi) within prefectures of Fukui, Mie, Shiga, Kyōto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama and Tottori
- Chugoku Nature Trail: 2,211 kilometres (1,374 mi) within prefectures of Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi
- Shikoku Nature Trail: 1,637 kilometres (1,017 mi) within prefectures of Ehime, Tokushima, Kagawa and Kōchi
- Kyushu Nature Trail: 2,587 kilometres (1,607 mi) within prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima
- Kantō Fureai Trail
- Kyrgyzstan Trail -
- circumnavigates lake Issyk Kul in the North-Eastern part of Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Lebanon Mountain Trail
- a 26-day 440-km trail through Mount Lebanon
- Lebanon Mountain Trail
- Armenia
Europe
- Cross Country Footpaths
- The GR footpaths
- in Belgium, France, Spain and the Netherlands
- European long-distance paths
- The Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne
- (HRP) in the Pyrenees in France, Spain and Andorra
- The Nordkalottleden Trail
- The GR footpaths
- Austria
- Arnoweg around the Austrian Alps
- Bulgaria
- Kom-Emine 700 km, from mount Kom to Cape Emine (part of European walking route E3)
- Finland
- The Karhunkierros Trail
- (80 kilometers, External link) in the municipalities of Kuusamo and Salla, Oulanka National Park, Lapland
- The Peuran polku Trail
- (115 kilometers, External link) in the municipalities of Kivijärvi, Kinnula, Perho, Lestijärvi and Reisjärvi in Central Finland and Pohjanmaa (Ostrobothnia) - a part of European walking route E6
- The Karhunkierros Trail
- France
- GR 5 (part of European long-distance footpath E2)
- GR 10 (through the French Pyrenees, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea)
- GR 20 (through Corsica, from North to South)
- The Haute Route (through French Alps into Switzerland)
- Germany
- Barbarossaweg: Korbach to Kyffhäuserdenkmal (332 kilometres (206 mi))
- Bonifatiusweg: Mainz to Fulda (180 kilometres (110 mi))
- Christine-Koch-Weg: Menden to Bad Laasphe (123 kilometres (76 mi))
- Maximiliansweg: Lindau to Berchtesgaden (350 kilometres (220 mi))
- Moselhöhenweg: Trier to Koblenz
- Pandurensteig: Waldmuenchen to Passau
- Rennsteig: Hörsel to Blankenstein/Saale through the Thuringian Forest (169 kilometres (105 mi))
- Rheinburgenweg Trail: Bingen to Koblenz to Rüdesheim am Rhein (c.200 kilometres (120 mi))
- Rheinhöhenweg Trail: Bonn to Alsheim/Wiesbaden (530 kilometres (330 mi))
- Rheinsteig: Bonn to Wiesbaden (320 kilometres (200 mi))
- Westweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg West): Pforzheim to Basel (279 kilometres (173 mi))
- Mittelweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg Mittel): Pforzheim to Waldshut (233 kilometres (145 mi))
- Ostweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg Ost): Pforzheim to Schaffhausen (238 kilometres (148 mi))
- Schwarzwald Nordrandweg: Mühlacker to Karlsruhe (71 kilometres (44 mi))
- Schwarzwald-Querweg Freiburg-Bodensee: Freiburg to Konstanz (183 kilometres (114 mi))
- Hungary
- Countrywide Blue Tour in Hungary (part of European long-distance footpath E4)
- Italy
- Dolomites Classical High Route (no.1) from Braies Lake to Belluno
- High Route of the Legends (no.2) from Brixen to Feltre
- Dolomites High Route of the Chamoi (no.3) from Villabassa to Longarone
- Dolomites Grohmann's High Route (no.4) from San Candido in Pusteria to Pieve di Cadore
- Dolomites Titans's High Route (no.5) from Sesto in Pusteria to Pieve di Cadore
- Dolomites High Route of Silence (no.6) from Pieve d'Alpago to Vittorio Veneto
- Dolomites Patera's High Route (no.7) from Ponte nelle Alpi to Tambre d'Alpago
- Dolomites High Route of the Heroes (no.8) from Feltre to Bassano del Grappa
- Dolomites High Route (n. 9): the Trasversale from Bolzano to Santo Stefano di Cadore
- Dolomites High Route (n. 10) of Giudicarie from Bolzano to the Garda Lake
- Grand Italian Trail
- Liguria - From Portovenere to Camogli hiking trail along the sea with 1000 pics, maps and journal
- Lombardia - Como Lake - Wayfarer’s Trail Sentiero del Viandante from Lecco to Colico with 1000 pics, maps and journal
- Lombardia - Como Lake - Monti Lariani Trail From Cernobbio to Sorico with 600 pics, maps and journal
- Lombardia - Como Lake - Via Regina Ancient Route from Cernobbio to Casenda with 2600 pics, maps and journal
- Greece
- Republic of Ireland
- Spain
- St James's Way
- GR7, the Spanish portion of the E4 European Mediterranean Arc footpath
- GR11 (through the Spanish pyrenees, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean)
- GR142 through the Alpujarras
- Sweden
- Kungsleden, 425 km from the northern extremity of the country
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Turkey
Oceania
- Australia
- New Zealand