Hiking in Czechia is set to get safer and easier this season

Hiking in Czechia is set to get safer and easier this season

Scandinavia
2023
Hiking in Czechia is set to get safer and easier this season
The Czech Tourist Club, which oversees thousands of kilometers of trails, steps into spring with its Walking for Health project.

The Czech Tourist Club (KČT), which manages the trails, this year celebrates its 135 anniversary.

Thanks to the Walking for Health (Pěšky pro zdraví) project, safer and more comfortable tourist routes will be created in Czechia.

The first routes will begin to be marked this year, and in the future there will be at least 2,000 kilometers of them. The routes must allow comfortable walking on the natural surface of the road, must not include roads with motorized and bicycle traffic, must be interesting, well-marked according to the KČT marking system.

The route distance will range from four to 25 km for one-day sections. Multi-day routes would have a combination of at least two consecutive one-day routes with the possibility of an overnight stay at the end and beginning of each of them.

The idea for certifying hiking trails began in 1999 by the German Tourist Institute at the University of Marburg. Hikers there said that they did not like walking on asphalt, dangerous sections on main roads, and boring routes without tourist attractions.