Spring 2025 has finally arrived, and like many of you, I'm eager to hit the trails again!

Europe is packed with beautiful, lesser-known hiking spots perfect for a quiet adventure.

I'd love to hear your personal recommendations:

  • Do you have a favorite hidden gem or underrated trail you've explored recently?
  • Any memorable stories or special tips for fellow hikers?
  • Feel free to share — let’s inspire each other!

Looking forward to discovering new spots and experiences through your suggestions! 🌿😊


6 comments

  1. Netherlands: Hiking, that’s something other than walking straight on flat lands, right?

  2. The South West Coast Path of the UK. Hundreds of miles hugging the coast from Minehead to Poole, taking in all of Devon and Cornwall. Beautiful rugged sea views, dipping into little coves, villages, surf spots, tourist towns. It is interesting as it can get rural very quickly, say the other side of St Ives (not that it is super remote in terms of miles). I have done sections of it, I’d love to plan a whole trip camping and tackle it over a few weeks.

  3. I cannot get enough of the customs officers’ path, GR 34 along the coast of Brittany. The coast is incredibly versatile, and even on shorter hikes of a few hours you see so many different kinds of sea, each little bay can be different from the next. You can have finest white sands and crystal clear water, and 15 minutes later red sand, and in the next bay you find huge round boulders and violent waves, and then steep cliffs with lush greenery on top and turquoise water below. Dotted with tiny (or not so tiny) Breton fishing villages. 

    I would recommend a visit in late September to early October. I have never been in summer, but I could imagine it’s pretty crowded then. But if you go in early autumn, you meet other hikers perhaps every 10 or 15 minutes. Or none at all for an hour, depending on where you are. 

  4. The [Jämtlandstriangeln ](https://gapatur.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/C9CBC08F-B87A-407D-AE09-6F208486FC89_1_201_a.jpg)area in Sweden is one I have fond memories of. Sylarna, Helagsfjället area.

    You have lush riversides, rockier peaks, and can choose between sleeping in a tent or a variety of fjell stations, some of which have dinner service and almost hotel-like levels of accommodation.

    Just like many Nordic destinations, instead of it being a hike from point A to point B, people usually buy a map of the area and make their own route utilizing the trail network in the area.

  5. Via Transilvanica, Romania.
    The Couserans – Ariège, France
    I’ll hopefully give more details soon, need to take some rest as I have a broken rib and it hurts like crazy. Cheers

  6. Denmark is flat, as we have no mountains, but hilly with a lot of coastline, so you can find some easy hiking with pretty views. If you like a bit of luxury, you can hike northern Zealand along the coast and sleep at the seaside hotels. It’s also easy to combine with a city trip to Copenhagen, as you could start your hike from Helsingør (Elsinore), and that’s less than one hour by train from CPH.

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