List of long-distance footpaths

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This is a list of some long-distance footpaths used for walking and hiking.

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Contents 1 Americas 1.1 Argentina 1.2 Bolivia 1.3 Canada 1.4 Chile 1.5 Peru 1.6 United States 2 Asia 2.1 Armenia 2.2 Bhutan 2.3 Hong Kong 2.4 Israel 2.5 Japan 2.6 Kyrgyzstan 2.7 Lebanon 2.8 Myanmar 2.9 Nepal 2.10 Russia 2.11 South Korea 3 Europe 3.1 Austria 3.2 Bulgaria 3.3 Finland 3.4 Germany 3.5 Greece 3.6 Hungary 3.7 Italy 3.8 Norway 3.9 Poland 3.10 Republic of Ireland 3.11 Slovakia 3.12 Sweden 3.13 Switzerland 3.14 United Kingdom 3.14.1 Scotland 3.15 Turkey 4 Oceania 4.1 Australia 4.2 New Zealand 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Americas

[edit] Argentina

• Los Glaciares
  • Various Options to Laguna Torre, Cerro FitzRoy, or even out onto the Southern Patagonian Ice Field

[edit] Bolivia

• Cordillera Real
  • 7 Day Illampu Circuit

[edit] Canada

• Bruce Trail
• Chilkoot Trail
• East Coast Trail
• Eastern Continental Trail
• Great Divide Trail
• International Appalachian Trail
• Juan de Fuca Trail
• Mantario Trail
• National Hiking Trail of Canada [1]
• Rideau Trail
• Trans-Canada Trail
• West Coast Trail
• La Cloche Silhouette Trail
• Fundy Footpath

[edit] Chile

• Torres del Paine
  • 6-8 day Paine Circuit

[edit] 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 & Cordillera Vilcanota 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

[edit] United States

• Long-distance trails in the United States

[edit] Asia

[edit] Armenia

• Janapar wandering marked trail through mountains, valleys and villages of Karabakh, with monasteries and fortresses along the way. [2]

[edit] Bhutan

• Snowman Trek, a 21-day hike through the Himalayas

[edit] Hong Kong

The merit of hiking trails in Hong Kong is that hikers can enjoy scenery of both the sea and highland.

• 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 - from Sai Kung to Tuen Mun (100 km)

[edit] 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.
• Golan Trail - 130 km from mt. Hermon (1500mt) to the sea of Gallile (-200m)

[edit] Japan

• Hokkaidō Nature Trail - 4585km all over the island of Hokkaidō
• Tōhoku Nature Trail - 4374km within prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima
• Chubu Hokuriku Nature Trail - 4029km within prefectures of Gunma, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Gifu and Shiga
• Metropolitan Area Nature Trail - 1800km within prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tōkyō and Kanagawa
• Tōkaidō Nature Trail - 1697km from Tokyo to Osaka via prefectures of Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Aichi, Shiga, Gifu, Mie, Kyōto and Nara
• Kinki Nature Trail - 3291km within prefectures of Fukui, Mie, Shiga, Kyōto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama and Tottori
• Chugoku Nature Trail - 2211km within prefectures of Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi
• Shikoku Nature Trail - 1637km within prefectures of Ehime, Tokushima, Kagawa and Kōchi
• Kyushu Nature Trail - 2587km within prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima

[edit] Kyrgyzstan

• Kyrgyzstan Trail - circumnavigates lake Issyk Kul in the North-Eastern part of Kyrgyzstan

[edit] Lebanon

• Lebanon Mountain Trail, a 26-day 440-km trail through Mount Lebanon

[edit] Myanmar

Hakabo Razi Trail [3] and various footpath in Putao

[edit] 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 (see Annapurna Circuit at wikitravel)

[edit] Russia

• Great Baikal Trail

[edit] South Korea

• The Baekdudaegan Trail - 750km long trail along the ridge of Baekdu Daegan mountain range

[edit] Europe

• 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 (Kalottireitti, 800 kilometers) in the northernmost parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway (Lapland)
• St James's Way through France and Spain
• The Via Alpina network of Alpine trails

[edit] Austria

• Arnoweg around the Austrian Alps

[edit] Bulgaria

• Kom-Emine 700 km, from mount Kom to Cape Emine (part of European walking route E3)^[1]

[edit] 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

[edit] Germany

• Barbarossaweg Korbach to Kyffhäuserdenkmal (332km)
• Bonifatiusweg Mainz to Fulda (180km)
• Christine-Koch-Weg Menden to Bad Laasphe (123km)
• Maximiliansweg from Lindau to Berchtesgaden
• Moselhöhenweg from Trier to Koblenz
• Pandurensteig from Waldmuenchen to Passau
• Rennsteig from Hörsel to Blankenstein/Saale through the Thuringian Forest
• Rheinburgenweg Trail from Bingen to Koblenz to Rüdesheim am Rhein
• Rheinhöhenweg Trail from Bonn to Alsheim/Wiesbaden (530km)
• Rheinsteig from Bonn to Wiesbaden (320 km)
• Westweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg West) from Pforzheim to Basel (279km)
• Mittelweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg Mittel) from Pforzheim to Waldshut (233km)
• Ostweg (Schwarzwald Höhenweg Ost) from Pforzheim to Schaffhausen (238km)
• Schwarzwald Nordrandweg from Mühlacker to Karlsruhe (71km)
• Schwarzwald-Querweg Freiburg-Bodensee from Freiburg to Konstanz (183km)

[edit] Greece

• European walking route E4 (Florina to Agios Nikolaos)
• European walking route E6 (Igoumenitsa to Alexandroupoli)

[edit] Hungary

• Countrywide Blue Tour in Hungary (part of European long-distance footpath E4)

[edit] Italy

• Grand Italian Trail (Sentiero Italia): nation-wide trail of more than 6.000 km length
• Dolomites:
  • Dolomites Classical High Route (no.1) from Braies Lake to Belluno
  • Dolomites High Route of the Legends (no.2) from Bressanone 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
• 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
• Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) - 55 days in the Alps of Piemonte

[edit] Norway

• Jotunheimen Trail (Norwegian: "Jotunheimstien"), 320 kilometres from downtown Oslo to Lake Gjende in Jotunheimen

[edit] Poland

• Główny Szlak Sudecki (Main Sudety Trail) - 350 km in Sudetes Mountains from Świeradów Zdrój to Prudnik
• Główny Szlak Beskidzki (Main Beskidy Trail) - 519 km in Beskids Mountains, from Wołosate to Ustroń^[2], the longest public trail in Poland
• Polish - Czech Friendship Trail - trail along the Polish and czech border in Sudetes

[edit] Republic of Ireland

• Long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland

[edit] Slovakia

• The Slovak National Uprising Heroes Trail 750km from east to west (Dukla - Bradlo) across mountainous regions of Slovakia

[edit] Sweden

• Kungsleden, 425 km from the northern extremity of the country

[edit] Switzerland

See: Hiking trails in Switzerland

[edit] United Kingdom

• Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom

[edit] Scotland

• Long Distance Routes
• other long-distance footpaths

[edit] Turkey

• Lycian Way
• Saint Paul Trail

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Australia

See: List of long-distance hiking tracks in Australia

[edit] New Zealand

• New Zealand tramping tracks

[edit] References

1. ^ KOM-EMINE from Walkingworld
2. ^ [http://www.czerwonyszlak.republika.pl/opis_trasy.htm Główny Szlak Beskidzki - opis trasy

[edit] External links

• Walks and Trails in Hong Kong