Dortmund

Hiking routes around Dortmund

At least 234 waymarked hiking routes run within 20 km of Dortmund: 10 national, 22 regional and 202 local. Parts of the area hold more than Waymarked Trails lists at once.

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Around Dortmund

10 national and international routes pass within 20 km, among them Emscherparkweg XE (131 km), GeoRoute Ruhr (131 km) and Jakobs-Pilgerweg Osnabrück-Beyenburg (206 km). [XR] Ruhrhöhenweg passes through Dortmund: 6 sections with 246 km mapped in all, 54 km of them within 20 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is WestfalenWanderWeg, 216 km from Hattingen to Altenbeken. At least 140 local routes here are under 10 km. Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein looks after 3 of the 12 routes listed here.

The routes with most of their length within 20 km

  • Rund um Dortmund DRegional · (D)101 km within 20 kmSauerländischer Gebirgsverein Bezirk Dortmund Ardey
  • Emscherparkweg XENational · XE73 km within 20 km · 131 km in all · Duisburg to KamenSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • GeoRoute RuhrNational · GR71 km within 20 km · 131 km in all · Mülheim, Landesgartenschaugelände to Schwerte "Nord", FreischützRegionalverband Ruhr
  • Jakobs-Pilgerweg Osnabrück-BeyenburgNational · JW66 km within 20 km · 206 km in allLandschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe
  • WestfalenWanderWegNational · Xw61 km within 20 km · 216 km in all · Hattingen to AltenbekenSauerländischer Gebirgsverein (SGV);Eggegebirgsverein e.V.
  • [XR] RuhrhöhenwegNational · XR · 6 sections54 km within 20 km · 246 km in all · Winterberg to DuisburgSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • X4 HöhlenwegRegional · X451 km within 20 km · 76 km in allSGV Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • (B) Rund um BochumLocal · (BO)38 km within 20 km · about 64 km in all
  • Universitätswanderweg Dortmund - BochumRegional · U32 km within 20 kmSauerländischer Gebirgsverein
  • Iserlohner RundwegLocal · (IS)32 km within 20 km · about 65 km in all
  • Doppelbalken Witten-UnnaRegional · =32 km within 20 km · Witten to Unna
  • (U) Rundweg UnnaLocal · (U)28 km within 20 km · about 31 km in all

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 20 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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