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🏔️ Bucket List Hikes

The routes worth planning a trip around

These are the highest scoring routes in the entire directory, weighted for scenery, scale and how well documented they are. If you are building a shortlist of hikes to do in your life, start here.

Al Oeste del Guadarrama
Expert

Camino Natural del Tajo

Aragon · Spain

Distance
961 km
/ 597 mi
Elevation gain
4,596 m
Typical duration
235 hr
  • River
  • Mountain
  • Pilgrimage route
Vista de los alrededores de la comuna de Romoos, en el Cantón de Lucerna (Suiza).
Hard

Alpine Panorama Trail

Bern · Switzerland

Distance
16.9 km
/ 10.5 mi
Elevation gain
256 m
Typical duration
3 hr 58 min
  • Mountain
  • Alpine meadow
  • Panoramic viewpoint
This media shows the protected monument with the number 603-160/2 CHMSK/603-160/2 , CHMSK/603-160 ( other ) in the Slovak Republic.
Expert

Cesta hrdinov SNP

Region of Bratislava · Slovakia

Distance
737 km
/ 458 mi
Elevation gain
7,003 m
Typical duration
185 hr
  • Mountain
  • Castle and ruins
  • Waymarked route
Jasa
Expert

Aragonese Way

Aragon · Spain

Distance
72.9 km
/ 45.3 mi
Elevation gain
409 m
Typical duration
17 hr
  • Mountain
  • Waymarked route
  • Long-distance path
Ermita de la Virgen de Pineta
Hard

Variante Faja de las Olas

Aragon · Spain

Distance
15.8 km
/ 9.8 mi
Elevation gain
1,811 m
Typical duration
6 hr 3 min
  • Mountain
  • Forest
  • Waymarked route
Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Hard

Via Alpina Green C1

Liechtenstein

Distance
12.1 km
/ 7.5 mi
Elevation gain
1,339 m
Typical duration
4 hr 32 min
  • Mountain
  • Waymarked route
Primary school in the village of Budinarci, Maleševija, Macedonia
Expert

Sammiana I4

Blagoevgrad · Bulgaria

Distance
204 km
/ 127 mi
Elevation gain
6,056 m
Typical duration
57 hr
  • Mountain
  • Waymarked route
  • Long-distance path
Teiu Zânii
Expert

Via Transilvanica Terra Dacica

Alba · Romania

Distance
281 km
/ 174 mi
Elevation gain
3,923 m
Typical duration
72 hr
  • Mountain
  • Waymarked route
  • Long-distance path
The mosque in the Village of Cherna Mesta, Bulgaria.
Hard

ST510 Yakoruda - Yundola

Blagoevgrad · Bulgaria

Distance
23.4 km
/ 14.6 mi
Elevation gain
891 m
Typical duration
6 hr 28 min
  • Mountain
Römisches Grabrelief "Häerdcheslee" in der Gemeinde Junglinster (Luxemburg)
Expert

Jakobsweg Luxemburg

Luxembourg

Distance
183 km
/ 114 mi
Elevation gain
1,218 m
Typical duration
44 hr
  • Mountain
  • Pilgrimage route
  • Waymarked route
500px provided description: light in a field of rye, blossoms of cornflower, it's like an expressionist picture [#landscape ,#cornflower ,#hugin ,#France ,#Lorraine ,#Delme]
Expert

GR 5 Lorraine

Luxembourg

Distance
293 km
/ 182 mi
Elevation gain
2,401 m
Typical duration
73 hr
  • Mountain
  • Forest
  • Waymarked route

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