Find hiking trails and picnic spots across South Africa
Difficulty, distance, entry fees, dog policy and safety notes for every route. No accounts, no apps, just the trail.
Hiking spots near me
Hiking spots near me on Hikeza is the Find list: 114 sourced trails, reserves and picnic spots you can sort by your location. It is not AllTrails and not a GPS track. Open hiking spots near me and tap Use my location — the sort is straight-line kilometres in the browser.
Hikes and trails near me
Hikes and trails near me is the same directory. Filter to trails only if you want picnic lawns hidden, or pick a region if you already know the city. Picnic-only searches belong on picnic spots near me.
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Hiking trails in Cape Town
From Table Mountain's contour paths to coastal walks along the Atlantic seaboard, Cape Town has the highest co…
Hiking trails in the West Coast
SANParks trails around Langebaan Lagoon: short Geelbek and Bakoor day walks, plus the August–September Postber…
Hiking trails in the Winelands
Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl mountain trails combine vineyard views with proper elevation gain, from ge…
Hiking trails in the Overberg
Fynbos coastal trails and mountain passes from Betty's Bay to the whale-watching cliffs of Hermanus and De Hoo…
Hiking trails in the Garden Route
Coastal forest and cliff trails from Plettenberg Bay through Tsitsikamma: Robberg, the Storms River mouth walk…
Hiking trails in the Cederberg
CapeNature wilderness three hours north of Cape Town: sandstone day hikes to the Wolfberg Arch and Maltese Cro…
Hiking trails in Johannesburg
Hiking spots in Johannesburg sit on municipal ridges and nature reserves within an hour of the city: Melville …
Walking trails in Pretoria
Walking trails in Pretoria sit on Tshwane reserves and Magaliesberg day hikes: Rietvlei, Groenkloof, Faerie Gl…
Hikes in Durban
Hikes in Durban sit on coastal forest, the Valley of a Thousand Hills and the South Coast: Krantzkloof in Kloo…
Hiking trails in the Drakensberg
The Drakensberg's accessible day walks — Royal Natal's easy trails, Cathedral Peak's gentler routes and Kamber…
Guides for common trail searches
Official distances and booking rules for each route, not one combined hike.
- Table Mountain hike
- Lion's Head hike
- Platteklip Gorge
- Robberg Nature Reserve
- Otter Trail
- Hiking trails in Pretoria
- Hiking trails in Johannesburg
- Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden
- Hermanus Cliff Path
- Whale Trail
- West Coast National Park
- Jonkershoek hiking trails
- Elephant's Eye hike
- Chapman's Peak hike
- Kogelberg hiking trails
- Picnic spots in Stellenbosch
- Picnic spots in Cape Town
- Hiking permits
- Newlands Forest
- Tokai Forest
- Cecilia Forest
- Silvermine hiking
- Constantia Nek hike
- Oudekraal picnic
- Kloofendal Nature Reserve
- Delta Park
- All hiking guides
Find a trail without creating an account
Hikeza exists because most trail information in South Africa is scattered across reserve websites, Facebook groups and out-of-date PDFs. We pull the practical details — distance, difficulty, entry fee, dog policy and safety notes — onto one page per trail, sourced from the reserve or operator that manages the land, and link back to them for booking or current conditions.
There's no account to create and no app to install. 114 trails and picnic spots are listed across 10 regions so far, from Table Mountain and the Garden Route to Johannesburg and the Drakensberg, and it's free to browse and get in touch with a listed operator. Featured placements are paid and always labelled as such, and we link out to the source for anything that changes with the seasons, like permits or opening dates.