Bochum

Hiking routes around Bochum

At least 198 waymarked hiking routes run within 17 km of Bochum: 9 national, 26 regional and 163 local. Parts of the area hold more than Waymarked Trails lists at once.

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Around Bochum

9 national and international routes pass within 17 km, among them GeoRoute Ruhr (131 km), Emscherparkweg XE (131 km) and Jakobs-Pilgerweg Dortmund - Aachen (185 km). [XR] Ruhrhöhenweg passes through Bochum: 6 sections with 246 km mapped in all, 66 km of them within 17 km. X17 Harkortweg passes through Bochum: 4 sections with 142 km mapped in all, 36 km of them within 17 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is WestfalenWanderWeg, 216 km from Hattingen to Altenbeken. At least 116 local routes here are under 10 km. Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein looks after 4 of the 12 routes listed here.

The routes with most of their length within 17 km

  • GeoRoute RuhrNational · GR83 km within 17 km · 131 km in all · Mülheim, Landesgartenschaugelände to Schwerte "Nord", FreischützRegionalverband Ruhr
  • [XR] RuhrhöhenwegNational · XR · 6 sections66 km within 17 km · 246 km in all · Winterberg to DuisburgSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • (B) Rund um BochumLocal · (BO)64 km within 17 km
  • (W) Rund um WittenLocal · (W)57 km within 17 km
  • Emscherparkweg XENational · XE51 km within 17 km · 131 km in all · Duisburg to KamenSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • (H) Rund um HattingenLocal · (H)49 km within 17 km · about 61 km in all
  • Jakobs-Pilgerweg Dortmund - AachenNational · JW46 km within 17 km · 185 km in all
  • Pilgerweg Meinerzhagen-ERegional · PwE43 km within 17 km · 106 km in allBistum Essen
  • Rhein-Ruhr-EmscherwegRegional · <>942 km within 17 km · 90 km in allSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • Rund um Dortmund DRegional · (D)40 km within 17 km · 102 km in allSauerländischer Gebirgsverein Bezirk Dortmund Ardey
  • WestfalenWanderWegNational · Xw37 km within 17 km · 216 km in all · Hattingen to AltenbekenSauerländischer Gebirgsverein (SGV);Eggegebirgsverein e.V.
  • X17 HarkortwegRegional · X17 · 4 sections36 km within 17 km · 142 km in allSauerländischer Gebirgsverein

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Waymarked Trails lists at most 100 routes for an area at once, and parts of this one hold more, so local routes late in the alphabet are missing from the counts and the list.
  • Lengths within 17 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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