Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking

WikiProject Backpacking
	Kit for carrying home and hearth
Shortcuts	WP:BPCK, WP:PACK
Categories	Backpacking, WikiProject Backpacking articles
Wikimedia Commons	Category:Backpacking
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Backpacking}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Backpacking}}
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Assessment
Popular pages	Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Popular pages
	Improving the encyclopedia when we are not walking in the wild and sleeping under the sky

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Welcome to WikiProject Backpacking. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Hiking and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, inquire on the talk page, watch this page, and see the to-do list, below.

Scope

Hiking, hiking trails, hiking equipment, hiking techniques, organizations that support hikers and hiking trail, the hiking community, authors, and their books. To cover hiking and backpacking by its many names; e.g. trekking, hill walking, tramping, rambling, snowshoeing, and more.

Goals

To improve hiking, backpacking, and trail related articles to Good Article Status
To organize and categorize articles related to hiking, backpacking, and trail articles
To provide a consistent layout for hiking, backpacking, and trail articles where applicable
auditing articles (tagging, classifying, and setting importance level) in categories hiking, hiking trails, backpacking, and camping
identifying and categorizing articles about organizations that support hikers, trails, backpackers and related activities

Articles

Recognized content

Good articles

Former featured articles

Beverage-can stove

Former good articles

Level 4 vital articles

List

Period: 2026-05-01 to 2026-05-31

Total views: 1,182,239

Updated: 00:24, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Rank	Page title	Views	Daily average	Assessment	Importance
1	Camino de Santiago	116,069	3,744	C	Unknown
2	Bear Grylls	99,556	3,211	B	Unknown
3	Chris McCandless	68,782	2,218	B	Unknown
4	Desire path	32,087	1,035	C	Unknown
5	Appalachian Trail	28,839	930	C	Unknown
6	Patagonia, Inc.	23,472	757	C	Unknown
7	Wild (2014 film)	22,572	728	C	Unknown
8	Bill Bryson	20,417	658	B	Unknown
9	Pacific Crest Trail	17,874	576	B	Unknown
10	National Park Service	17,627	568	B	Unknown
11	The Way (2010 film)	17,543	565	C	Unknown
12	The North Face	16,903	545	Start	Unknown
13	Arc'teryx	16,568	534	C	Unknown
14	Bivouac shelter	13,510	435	Start	Unknown
15	Great Smoky Mountains National Park	12,531	404	B	Unknown
16	Bartram Trail	11,987	386	C	Unknown
17	Mountaineering	11,670	376	B	Unknown
18	Tarpaulin	11,358	366	Start	Unknown
19	Grand Canyon National Park	11,284	364	C	Unknown
20	REI	10,396	335	C	Unknown
21	Hiking	9,260	298	B	Unknown
22	Via Francigena	8,882	286	C	Unknown
23	Freedom to roam	8,349	269	C	Unknown
24	Sierra Club	8,107	261	B	Unknown
25	Ice axe	7,946	256	C	Unknown
26	Topographic map	7,816	252	C	Unknown
27	First aid	7,590	244	C	Unknown
28	Continental Divide Trail	7,582	244	B	Unknown
29	Katahdin	7,557	243	C	Unknown
30	Columbia Sportswear	7,344	236	Start	Unknown
31	Backpack	7,230	233	C	Unknown
32	Bothy	7,164	231	C	Unknown
33	Tour du Mont Blanc	7,154	230	C	Unknown
34	Grandma Gatewood	6,959	224	Start	Unknown
35	A Walk in the Woods (film)	6,866	221	C	Unknown
36	Bureau of Land Management	6,772	218	B	Unknown
37	Wild (memoir)	6,515	210	B	Unknown
38	Pocketknife	6,496	209	B	Unknown
39	Hammock	6,195	199	C	Unknown
40	Lycian Way	6,109	197	B	Unknown
41	South West Coast Path	6,024	194	B	Unknown
42	The Ridgeway	5,774	186	C	Unknown
43	West Highland Way	5,534	178	C	Unknown
44	Lean-to	5,528	178	Stub	Unknown
45	Fjällräven	5,434	175	B	Unknown
46	The Nature Conservancy	5,319	171	B	Unknown
47	Gaiters	4,791	154	C	Unknown
48	Wilderness	4,687	151	B	Unknown
49	John Muir Trail	4,623	149	B	Unknown
50	Scrambling	4,379	141	C	Unknown
51	Alfred Wainwright	4,218	136	C	Unknown
52	Nordic walking	4,152	133	C	Unknown
53	JanSport	3,853	124	Start	Unknown
54	European long-distance paths	3,726	120	List	Unknown
55	Canada Goose Inc.	3,708	119	C	Unknown
56	Kokoda Track	3,696	119	C	Unknown
57	Outdoor recreation	3,696	119	C	Unknown
58	Insect repellent	3,694	119	B	Unknown
59	Tent	3,681	118	C	Unknown
60	Fire making	3,662	118	C	Unknown
61	Coleman (brand)	3,576	115	Start	Unknown
62	Survival skills	3,481	112	C	Unknown
63	North Country Trail	3,469	111	C	Unknown
64	Rail trail	3,438	110	B	Unknown
65	Pennine Way	3,397	109	C	Unknown
66	Coast to Coast Walk	3,364	108	C	Unknown
67	Triple Crown of Hiking	3,364	108	Stub	Unknown
68	Quechua (brand)	3,327	107	Stub	Unknown
69	Death of Vance Rodriguez	3,311	106	Start	Unknown
70	National Trails System	3,186	102	Fl	Unknown
71	A Walk in the Woods (book)	3,169	102	C	Unknown
72	Trail	2,988	96	B	Unknown
73	Backpacking (hiking)	2,948	95	C	Unknown
74	King Charles III England Coast Path	2,931	94	B	Unknown
75	International Appalachian Trail	2,925	94	C	Unknown
76	Thru-hiking	2,919	94	C	Unknown
77	List of long-distance trails in the United States	2,890	93	List	Unknown
78	Lillian Alling	2,758	88	Start	Unknown
79	Climbing	2,689	86	List	Unknown
80	American Discovery Trail	2,687	86	Start	Unknown
81	Dyneema Composite Fabric	2,665	85	Start	Unknown
82	List of wilderness areas of the United States	2,635	85	List	Unknown
83	GR footpath	2,627	84	C	Unknown
84	Green Mountains	2,597	83	Start	Unknown
85	List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom	2,514	81	List	Unknown
86	Karrimor	2,474	79	B	Unknown
87	National Wilderness Preservation System	2,468	79	C	Unknown
88	Jack Wolfskin	2,456	79	Start	Unknown
89	Rab (company)	2,445	78	Stub	Unknown
90	Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest	2,433	78	Start	Unknown
91	Appalachian Trail by state	2,425	78	C	Unknown
92	Chilkoot Pass	2,301	74	B	Unknown
93	Trans Canada Trail	2,248	72	C	Unknown
94	Great Allegheny Passage	2,197	70	C	Unknown
95	Snowshoe	2,194	70	C	Unknown
96	Leave No Trace	2,151	69	C	Unknown
97	Campsite	2,114	68	C	Unknown
98	Pilgrims' Way	2,096	67	B	Unknown
99	Fire pit	2,077	67	Start	Unknown
100	Shelter-half	2,061	66	Start	Unknown

Source page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Popular pages

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Article assessment

The project is using standard and extended class/importance as described in content assessment. See also assessing articles.

Priority/importance

Articles that need prioritization

Top: Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field
High: Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent
Mid: Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area
Low: Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article

When reviewing the importance of an article to the project, consider this guidance. Your judgment as an editor will always trump this guidance.

The U.S. National Scenic Trails, or another nations equivalent, and many subjects related to hiking upon them should probably be High priority.
The Ten essentials and individual articles about the use of the essential or skills need to use it effectively should be High priority.
Other equipment critical to a safe and comfortable backpacking trip should be Mid priority unless it is more—or less—notable for another reason.
Organizations that support long-distance hikers or the trails they use should be Mid priority.
Hiking trails shorter that ten miles (16 km) may not belong to this project at all unless they are of notable interest to backpackers.
Hiking trails longer than ten miles (16 km) should be Low priority unless they are of significant interest to backpackers.
Manufacturers or brands of equipment used by backpackers should be Low priority unless they are essential to backpackers for an important reason.

Content quality grading

Articles that need grading

Standard classes

We use these classes as defined further in Wikipedia:Content assessment. Here is the relative Part of that document.

Stub-Class: A very basic description of the topic. Can be well-written, but may also have significant content issues.

The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; but, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category. Although Stub-class articles are the lowest class of the normal classes, they are adequate enough to be an accepted article, though they do have risks of being dropped from being an article altogether.

Start-Class: An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources.

The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style compliance non-existent. The article should satisfy fundamental content policies, such as Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Frequently, the referencing is inadequate, although enough sources are usually provided to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.

C-Class: The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup.

The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.

B-Class: The article is mostly complete and without major problems but requires some further work to reach good article standards.

The article meets the six B-Class criteria:

The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional.
The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing.
The article has a defined structure.Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind.
The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it does not need to be "brilliant". The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously.
The article contains supporting materials where appropriate.Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infoboxetc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.

GA-Class: The article has attained good article status, having been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations.

The article meets the good article criteria:

A good article is:

Well written:
1. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
2. it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
Verifiable with no original research:
1. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
2. all inline citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines;
3. it contains no original research; and
4. it contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism.
Broad in its coverage:
1. it addresses the main aspectsof the topic; and
2. it stays focused on the topicwithout going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
1. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
2. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

FA-Class: The article has attained featured articlestatus by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates.

The article meets the featured article criteria:

A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.

It is:
1. well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard;
2. comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
3. well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiableagainst high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate;
4. neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and
5. stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process.
It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of:
1. a lead: a concise lead sectionthat summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
2. appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and
3. consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes (<ref>Smith 2007, p. 1</ref>) or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1)—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required.
Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style.

Other classes

These are used for project maintenance.

List-Class: Any list page falls under this class
Disambig-Class: Any disambiguation page falls under this class
Category-Class: Any category falls under this class
Draft-Class: Any draft falls under this class. These are typically found in the Draft namespace, but may also be in the User namespace
Project-Class: Any project page falls under this class; may also include help pages
Template-Class: Any template falls under this class; may also include modules or userboxes

Statistics

Backpacking articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA		2		5			7
B	3	10	9	48			70
C	2	21	20	152			195
Start		16	16	204		1	237
Stub		3	4	103			110
List		5	5	24			34
Category					78		78
Disambig					8		8
Project					4		4
Template					12		12
Other					1		1
Assessed	5	57	54	536	103	1	756
Total	5	57	54	536	103	1	756

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FA-Class: 0
A-Class: 0
GA-Class: 0
B-Class: 0
C-Class: 0
Start-Class: 0
Stub-Class: 0
FL-Class: 0
List-Class: 0

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Top-importance: 0
High-importance: 0
Mid-importance: 0
Low-importance: 0
Bottom-importance: 0
NA-importance: 0
Unknown-importance: 0

Participants

Our member list can be found below and in the category: Category:WikiProject Backpacking participants

If you would like to declare yourself as a member of WikiProject Backpacking:

add yourself to the member list below, and optionally,
add any or all of the following to your user page:
- category indicator, {{ucat|WikiProject Backpacking participants}}
- userbox, {{User WikiProject Backpacking}}, in shortcut form {{WPBUBX}}
- topicon, {{Backpacking topicon}}

Members

Watchers

Project watchers

Former Members

This WikiProject was established on March 11, 2007 and was worked by these and other, unnamed, editors. We thank them and salute them for the path they started and upon which we follow.

Open tasks

Templates

wiki markup: {{WikiProject Backpacking}}, shortcut {{WPBBanner}}
Used to tag, grade, and prioritize the articles by applying to the talk pages of backpacking related articles
the banner looks like this:

Backpacking (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Backpacking, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.BackpackingWikipedia:WikiProject BackpackingTemplate:WikiProject BackpackingBackpacking

Invite

wiki markup: {{WikiProject Backpacking invitation}}, shortcut {{WPBInvite}}
used to invite editors to the backpacking project by using it in a message on the editor's talk page
the invitation looks like this:

You're invited to be a part of WikiProject Backpacking, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to backpacking. To accept this invitation, click here!

Userbox

wiki markup: {{User WikiProject Backpacking}}, shortcut {{WPBUBX}}
the userbox looks like this:

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Backpacking

There is also a user topicon, {{Backpacking topicon}}

Barnstar

wiki markup: {{The Backpacking Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}
the barnstar look like:

		The Backpacking Barnstar
		for all the edits when you could have been in the wilderness

{{subst:The Backpacking Barnstar|1=message ~~~~|2=alt}}

		The Backpacking Barnstar
		message ~~~~

Stubs

{{Backpacking-stub}}

This backpacking related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

{{Trail-stub}}

This trail or long-distance path-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

Other project pages

In this wikipediaspace:

Wikipedia:

WikiProject Backpacking

Wikipedia talk: