The European Ramblers Association (ERA; ; ) is a network organisation working for promotion of walking, hiking, creating trails, exchange of the know-how over the borders and secure the rights of free access to nature for the walkers. Through this work, ERA also cares for protecting and developing of European cultural heritage and for strengthening of mutual understanding between European citizens.
Already at the beginning of its existence, ERA started creating a network of
European long-distance paths
The European long-distance paths (E-paths) are a network of long-distance footpaths that traverse Europe. While most List of long-distance footpaths, long-distance footpaths on the continent are located in just one country or region, each of th ...
maintained by its member organisations to make it possible to walk all over Europe on foot to strengthen the connection people to people over the borders. From 2017 the network consists of 12
E-paths and covers more than 75.000 km crisscrossing Europe. An E-path is a long-distance path crossing a minimum of three European countries. Marking and maintenance of the path is the responsibility of the member organisations.
ERA also focuses on Leading Quality Trails - Best of Europe and sustainability.
ERA is changing its English name in 2025 to European Hiking Federation with Hiking Europe as the abbreviation. Until further the short abbreviation ERA will continue.
References
Hiking organizations
Hiking governing bodies
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