Trail Almanac is a data-driven guide to the best multi-day hiking trails. It’s built to help you find the right trail for you.
Trail data is scattered across blogs, apps, maps, guidebooks, and bothy visitor books. Lots of websites give you a wall of text and a difficulty rating that means nothing until you’re halfway up your first climb. I break trails down into the factors that actually decide whether a hike is right for you: distance, elevation, difficulty, best season, scenery, crowd levels, accessibility, and a ton more. You can compare trails side by side knowing you’re comparing apples with apples, and sort and filter the trail options by the factors that matter most to you.
Maybe you’ve got a week off in April and want a mountain route but you know the Alps is out because you’re not a winter mountaineer. Perhaps you want a beginner-friendly coast walk but you need to be outside the Schengen zone because you’ve maxed your quota. That’s the kind of question I want to help you answer.
This seems like a ridiculous amount of work. Why bother?
Trail Almanac is at heart a personal project, born of frustration and disorganisation and the need to collate my own notes into something I can easily find again rather than googling the same query for the umpteenth time because I can’t recall when the Kungsleden huts close for the season. I’ve got a Dropbox and a Google Drive chock full of outdated PDF guides and maps to trails I know I’ll need to double check again when I get round to finally tackling them.
It’s an independent project, not a tour operator or booking platform. The goal is simply to make finding your next great hike faster, clearer, and more fun.
How the data works
Trail information is compiled from a mix of public trail data, official land-management sources, and on-the-ground detail, then standardised so every trail is scored the same way. It’s a living project with trails constantly added and refined, and corrections and suggestions from the community are always welcome.
Get in touch
Spotted an error, want to suggest a trail, or just want to say hello? Head to the Contact page. I read every message and reply to all except the most offensive.