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

Did you know? articles

Former featured articles

Beverage-can stove

Former good articles

Level 4 vital articles

Level 5 vital articles

Source page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Recognized content

List

Period: 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-30

Total views: 1,047,466

Updated: 00:39, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Rank	Page title	Views	Daily average	Assessment	Importance
1	Camino de Santiago	94,531	3,151	C	Unknown
2	Bear Grylls	72,980	2,432	B	Unknown
3	Chris McCandless	59,999	1,999	B	Unknown
4	Appalachian Trail	26,229	874	C	Unknown
5	Wild (2014 film)	24,609	820	C	Unknown
6	Hiking	21,223	707	B	Unknown
7	The Way (2010 film)	20,445	681	C	Unknown
8	Bill Bryson	19,676	655	B	Unknown
9	Patagonia, Inc.	18,283	609	C	Unknown
10	National Park Service	16,320	544	B	Unknown
11	Pacific Crest Trail	15,778	525	B	Unknown
12	The North Face	13,491	449	Start	Unknown
13	Great Smoky Mountains National Park	13,358	445	B	Unknown
14	Arc'teryx	13,065	435	C	Unknown
15	Tarpaulin	12,689	422	Start	Unknown
16	Bivouac shelter	12,508	416	Start	Unknown
17	Bartram Trail	12,102	403	C	Unknown
18	Mountaineering	10,636	354	B	Unknown
19	Grand Canyon National Park	9,160	305	C	Unknown
20	Tour du Mont Blanc	8,861	295	C	Unknown
21	Katahdin	8,687	289	C	Unknown
22	REI	7,951	265	C	Unknown
23	Via Francigena	7,797	259	C	Unknown
24	Desire path	7,751	258	C	Unknown
25	Backpack	7,318	243	C	Unknown
26	Ice axe	7,265	242	C	Unknown
27	Columbia Sportswear	6,927	230	Start	Unknown
28	Sierra Club	6,904	230	B	Unknown
29	Topographic map	6,852	228	C	Unknown
30	First aid	6,704	223	C	Unknown
31	A Walk in the Woods (film)	6,691	223	C	Unknown
32	Continental Divide Trail	6,572	219	B	Unknown
33	Freedom to roam	6,422	214	C	Unknown
34	Bothy	6,387	212	C	Unknown
35	Hammock	6,010	200	C	Unknown
36	Pocketknife	5,954	198	B	Unknown
37	Bureau of Land Management	5,693	189	B	Unknown
38	The Ridgeway	5,631	187	C	Unknown
39	Grandma Gatewood	5,456	181	Start	Unknown
40	Lean-to	5,384	179	Stub	Unknown
41	Wild (memoir)	5,278	175	B	Unknown
42	Lycian Way	5,067	168	B	Unknown
43	John Muir Trail	5,048	168	B	Unknown
44	South West Coast Path	4,861	162	B	Unknown
45	Fjällräven	4,837	161	B	Unknown
46	Death of Vance Rodriguez	4,772	159	Start	Unknown
47	West Highland Way	4,491	149	C	Unknown
48	Scrambling	4,380	146	C	Unknown
49	Nordic walking	4,353	145	C	Unknown
50	Gaiters	4,255	141	C	Unknown
51	The Nature Conservancy	4,195	139	B	Unknown
52	Insect repellent	4,167	138	B	Unknown
53	Wilderness	4,046	134	B	Unknown
54	Coleman (brand)	3,930	131	Start	Unknown
55	A Walk in the Woods (book)	3,709	123	C	Unknown
56	Kokoda Track	3,664	122	C	Unknown
57	JanSport	3,613	120	Start	Unknown
58	Pennine Way	3,556	118	C	Unknown
59	Alfred Wainwright	3,489	116	C	Unknown
60	Tent	3,442	114	C	Unknown
61	Outdoor recreation	3,387	112	C	Unknown
62	Canada Goose Inc.	3,372	112	C	Unknown
63	Triple Crown of Hiking	3,302	110	Stub	Unknown
64	Fire making	3,241	108	C	Unknown
65	Survival skills	3,234	107	C	Unknown
66	Quechua (brand)	3,175	105	Stub	Unknown
67	European long-distance paths	3,114	103	List	Unknown
68	Rail trail	3,107	103	B	Unknown
69	National Trails System	3,033	101	Fl	Unknown
70	Coast to Coast Walk	2,940	98	C	Unknown
71	Thru-hiking	2,849	94	C	Unknown
72	Backpacking (hiking)	2,769	92	C	Unknown
73	List of long-distance trails in the United States	2,687	89	List	Unknown
74	Green Mountains	2,654	88	Start	Unknown
75	Trail	2,622	87	B	Unknown
76	Appalachian Trail by state	2,596	86	C	Unknown
77	American Discovery Trail	2,568	85	Start	Unknown
78	International Appalachian Trail	2,540	84	C	Unknown
79	Dyneema Composite Fabric	2,415	80	Start	Unknown
80	Climbing	2,400	80	C	Unknown
81	List of wilderness areas of the United States	2,375	79	List	Unknown
82	Karrimor	2,361	78	B	Unknown
83	Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest	2,295	76	Start	Unknown
84	North Country Trail	2,265	75	C	Unknown
85	Trans Canada Trail	2,230	74	C	Unknown
86	Lillian Alling	2,207	73	Start	Unknown
87	Jack Wolfskin	2,205	73	Start	Unknown
88	Canoeing	2,143	71	Start	Unknown
89	GR footpath	2,138	71	C	Unknown
90	Cotswold Way	2,133	71	Start	Unknown
91	Mountain hut	2,114	70	Start	Unknown
92	Campsite	2,083	69	C	Unknown
93	King Charles III England Coast Path	2,082	69	B	Unknown
94	Pilgrims' Way	2,063	68	B	Unknown
95	Mountain Equipment Co-op	2,054	68	B	Unknown
96	Chilkoot Pass	2,052	68	B	Unknown
97	List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom	2,034	67	List	Unknown
98	Rab (company)	2,030	67	Stub	Unknown
99	Guide book	2,010	67	C	Unknown
100	Fire pit	1,988	66	Start	Unknown

Source page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Popular pages

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Other

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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 (defunct)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Backpacking, a project which is currently considered to be defunct.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: