User:Irmgard/Hiking in Switzerland

Hiking is one of the most popular sports among the Swiss. Switzerland is covered by a dense net of marked hiking trails totalling 62,000 km and comprising about 21,000 km of mountain trails.

In Switzerland, hiking trails are marked by a standardized system. A federal law of 1987 puts maintenance of hiking trails in the responsibility of the cantons, which delegate it to the local section of the Schweizer Wanderwege, the Swiss hiking trail association.