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🇩🇪 Germany

Hiking trails in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia has 5.7k hiking routes in our directory, spread across Germany. Together they cover 59k kilometres of walking, with an average route length of 10.3 km and 225 m (738 ft) of climbing.

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The spread is genuinely broad: 3190 routes rated easy, 1878 moderate and 640 hard or harder. The terrain that comes up most often is mountain, forest, lake. Around 49 percent are circular routes, so parking once is usually an option.

The most reliable season overall is april to october. Start with Wildnis-Trail or Rur-Olef-Route if you want the highlights without a lot of research.

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