Essen

Hiking routes around Essen

At least 245 waymarked hiking routes run within 20 km of Essen: 9 national, 31 regional and 205 local. Parts of the area hold more than Waymarked Trails lists at once.

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Around Essen

9 national and international routes pass within 20 km, among them GeoRoute Ruhr (131 km), Emscherparkweg XE (131 km) and Jakobs-Pilgerweg Dortmund - Aachen (185 km). [XR] Ruhrhöhenweg passes through Essen: 6 sections with 246 km mapped in all, 83 km of them within 20 km. X17 Harkortweg passes through Essen: 4 sections with 142 km mapped in all, 53 km of them within 20 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is neanderland STEIG, 241 km long. At least 158 local routes here are under 10 km. Sauerländischer Gebirgsverein looks after 5 of the 12 routes listed here.

The routes with most of their length within 20 km

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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