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: 2025-04-01 to 2025-04-30

Total views: 1,274,547

Updated: 21:39, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Rank	Page title	Views	Daily average	Assessment	Importance
1	Camino de Santiago	143,768	4,792	Unknown	Unknown
2	Chris McCandless	74,997	2,499	Unknown	Unknown
3	Bear Grylls	70,675	2,355	Unknown	Unknown
4	Appalachian Trail	29,916	997	Unknown	Unknown
5	Wild (2014 film)	23,286	776	Unknown	Unknown
6	The North Face	22,607	753	Unknown	Unknown
7	Bill Bryson	20,454	681	Unknown	Unknown
8	Pacific Crest Trail	20,259	675	Unknown	Unknown
9	Arc'teryx	20,212	673	Unknown	Unknown
10	Patagonia, Inc.	18,821	627	Unknown	Unknown
11	National Park Service	18,447	614	Unknown	Unknown
12	The Way (2010 film)	17,831	594	Unknown	Unknown
13	First aid	14,289	476	Unknown	Unknown
14	Bivouac shelter	13,559	451	Unknown	Unknown
15	Grand Canyon National Park	13,059	435	Unknown	Unknown
16	Mountaineering	12,766	425	Unknown	Unknown
17	Great Smoky Mountains National Park	12,118	403	Unknown	Unknown
18	Tarpaulin	11,336	377	Unknown	Unknown
19	Hiking	11,196	373	Unknown	Unknown
20	Freedom to roam	10,916	363	Unknown	Unknown
21	United States Forest Service	10,646	354	Unknown	Unknown
22	Bureau of Land Management	10,362	345	Unknown	Unknown
23	Topographic map	10,360	345	Unknown	Unknown
24	Via Francigena	10,079	335	Unknown	Unknown
25	Columbia Sportswear	9,874	329	Unknown	Unknown
26	Mount Katahdin	9,616	320	Unknown	Unknown
27	REI	9,456	315	Unknown	Unknown
28	Lean-to	9,185	306	Unknown	Unknown
29	Backpack	9,048	301	Unknown	Unknown
30	Desire path	8,318	277	Unknown	Unknown
31	Sierra Club	8,204	273	Unknown	Unknown
32	Ice axe	7,887	262	Unknown	Unknown
33	Continental Divide Trail	7,822	260	Unknown	Unknown
34	Bothy	7,409	246	Unknown	Unknown
35	Tour du Mont Blanc	6,867	228	Unknown	Unknown
36	Grandma Gatewood	6,811	227	Unknown	Unknown
37	A Walk in the Woods (film)	6,664	222	Unknown	Unknown
38	Outdoor recreation	6,604	220	Unknown	Unknown
39	Pocketknife	6,542	218	Unknown	Unknown
40	Camping	6,508	216	Unknown	Unknown
41	Pennine Way	6,440	214	Unknown	Unknown
42	Lycian Way	6,332	211	Unknown	Unknown
43	Nordic walking	6,300	210	Unknown	Unknown
44	Fjällräven	6,257	208	Unknown	Unknown
45	Wild (memoir)	6,216	207	Unknown	Unknown
46	South West Coast Path	5,728	190	Unknown	Unknown
47	The Nature Conservancy	5,679	189	Unknown	Unknown
48	Wilderness	5,402	180	Unknown	Unknown
49	Canada Goose (clothing)	5,378	179	Unknown	Unknown
50	Hammock	5,206	173	Unknown	Unknown
51	JanSport	5,126	170	Unknown	Unknown
52	Gaiters	5,089	169	Unknown	Unknown
53	West Highland Way	4,982	166	Unknown	Unknown
54	Jack Wolfskin	4,904	163	Unknown	Unknown
55	Kokoda Track	4,849	161	Unknown	Unknown
56	The Ridgeway	4,639	154	Unknown	Unknown
57	Quechua (brand)	4,544	151	Unknown	Unknown
58	Tent	4,481	149	Unknown	Unknown
59	Survival skills	4,436	147	Unknown	Unknown
60	Alfred Wainwright	4,422	147	Unknown	Unknown
61	John Muir Trail	4,287	142	Unknown	Unknown
62	European long-distance paths	4,260	142	Unknown	Unknown
63	Triple Crown of Hiking	4,255	141	Unknown	Unknown
64	Scrambling	4,168	138	Unknown	Unknown
65	List of long-distance trails in the United States	4,117	137	Unknown	Unknown
66	Insect repellent	4,078	135	Unknown	Unknown
67	Fire making	4,043	134	Unknown	Unknown
68	Coleman (brand)	3,956	131	Unknown	Unknown
69	Coast to Coast Walk	3,913	130	Unknown	Unknown
70	Backpacking (hiking)	3,876	129	Unknown	Unknown
71	Climbing	3,824	127	Unknown	Unknown
72	Hexamine fuel tablet	3,659	121	Unknown	Unknown
73	A Walk in the Woods (book)	3,551	118	Unknown	Unknown
74	Thru-hiking	3,475	115	Unknown	Unknown
75	National Trails System	3,369	112	Unknown	Unknown
76	Dyneema Composite Fabric	3,356	111	Unknown	Unknown
77	Trail	3,290	109	Unknown	Unknown
78	Karrimor	3,254	108	Unknown	Unknown
79	Hadrian's Wall Path	3,150	105	Unknown	Unknown
80	Rail trail	3,117	103	Unknown	Unknown
81	International Appalachian Trail	3,092	103	Unknown	Unknown
82	Pilgrims' Way	2,934	97	Unknown	Unknown
83	Regatta (clothing)	2,912	97	Unknown	Unknown
84	GR footpath	2,852	95	Unknown	Unknown
85	Green Mountains	2,827	94	Unknown	Unknown
86	List of wilderness areas of the United States	2,814	93	Unknown	Unknown
87	Snowshoe	2,717	90	Unknown	Unknown
88	Mountain Equipment Co-op	2,709	90	Unknown	Unknown
89	Campsite	2,684	89	Unknown	Unknown
90	Portable stove	2,579	85	Unknown	Unknown
91	Appalachian Trail by state	2,579	85	Unknown	Unknown
92	Mountain hut	2,576	85	Unknown	Unknown
93	Canoeing	2,551	85	Unknown	Unknown
94	Rab (company)	2,540	84	Unknown	Unknown
95	List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom	2,502	83	Unknown	Unknown
96	The Places in Between	2,482	82	Unknown	Unknown
97	Marmot (company)	2,475	82	Unknown	Unknown
98	Trans Canada Trail	2,461	82	Unknown	Unknown
99	Guide book	2,386	79	Unknown	Unknown
100	Tongariro Alpine Crossing	2,345	78	Unknown	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

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 expanding it.

{{Trail-stub}}

This trail or long-distance path-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Other project pages

In this wikipediaspace:

Wikipedia:

WikiProject Backpacking

Wikipedia talk: