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Best Hiking Subreddits (November 2026)

Looking for the right hiking community on Reddit? Here is the lay of the land. We checked the communities Reddit returns for “hiking” and “backpacking”, kept the public, safe-for-work ones with at least 25,000 members that are still posting, and ranked the 5 that remain by size. Together they have 10.2M members.

How the hiking communities compare

A few giants dominate — r/backpacking, r/CampingandHiking and r/WildernessBackpacking together account for 89% of the combined membership. The oldest is r/CampingandHiking, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.

The 5 biggest hiking subreddits

  1. r/backpacking 5,529,249 members

    A subreddit for traveling backpacking and wilderness backpacking, not restricted to one or the other. All posts must be flaired "Travel" or "Wilderness"

  2. r/CampingandHiking 2,806,078 members · +1.1K since Oct 26 · since 2008

    For Backpackers who Hike with Camping Gear in their Backpack. Tips, trip reports, back-country gear reviews, safety and news

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    r/WildernessBackpacking ↗ 741,482 members · since 2014

    A subreddit dedicated to backpacking in the wild places on earth - where people are few, cell signal is nil, and Mother Nature still reigns. Backpacking defined as multi-day trips into the wild, unpopulated, areas of the world.

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    r/Ultralight ↗ 699,178 members · since 2010

    r/Ultralight is the largest online Ultralight Backcountry Backpacking community! This sub is about overnight backcountry backpacking, with a focus on moving efficiently, packing light, generally aiming at a sub 10 pound base weig…

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    r/trailrunning ↗ 416,401 members · since 2010

    The fun begins where the road ends.

What these communities upvoted this week

This week's best-received posts from a few of the communities above — a quick way to get a feel for each one.

  1. Tent crushed by tentr/backpacking · Oct 27
  2. Vintage Gear overnight in New Mexicor/CampingandHiking · Oct 27
  3. A week in Olympic National Parkr/backpacking · Oct 30
  4. Is there a "durable" active mid layer that is more packable than fleece?r/CampingandHiking · Oct 31

Choosing where to post

Before posting, sort a subreddit by “Top” for the past month: it shows in a minute what that community rewards. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.

Frequently asked questions

What is the biggest hiking subreddit?

r/backpacking is the largest, with 5,529,249 members, followed by r/CampingandHiking (2.8M) and r/WildernessBackpacking (741.5K).

How many hiking subreddits are there?

We list 5 active, safe-for-work hiking communities with at least 25,000 members each, 10.2M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.

What is the oldest hiking subreddit?

r/CampingandHiking, created on Dec 30, 2008.

Are these hiking subreddits safe for work?

Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.

Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Nov 6, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.