Hik­ing hol­i­days in North Rhine-West­phalia

Hikers in North Rhine-West­phalia have qual­ity be­neath their feet: an in­creas­ing num­ber of trails are be­ing awar­ded the ‘Qual­ity hik­ing trail’ seal un­der the Ger­man Hik­ing As­so­ci­ation’s ‘Wanderbares Deutsch­land’ pro­gramme. NRW has something of a tra­di­tion here, be­ing present right from the start: the old­est and most suc­cess­ful hik­ing trail un­der the cer­ti­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ure is the Eggeweg in the Teuto­burg Forest.