Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain.

The trail avoids civilization, and covers scenic and pristine mountainous terrain with few roads.

The Lyngen peninsula is a very scenic and mountainous area, known as the Lyngen Alps, with the highest peaks in Troms county.

The mountainous Aizu region has scenic lakes, lush forests, and snowy winters.

The district is characterised by a mountainous landscape with scenic valleys, including glacial valleys above in the Polis Mountains.

The Kiskiminetas-Conemaugh river basin flows through a scenic mountainous country that forms the heart of the historic coal-producing areas of western Pennsylvania.

The river flows through scenic mountainous areas but is considered severely degraded by abandoned mine drainage – most notably, the Hughes bore hole – from the long exploitation of the region's coal resources.

Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in the Republic of South Africa.

Located along the border of France and Spain is a scenic and mountainous landscape offering a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, skiing, mountain climbing and observing wildlife.

It drains a scenic mountainous area of the Columbia Plateau on the east side of the Cascade Range southeast of Mount Hood.

Between the county line and Interstate 15, State Route 138 traverses very mountainous and scenic terrain and it connects with State Route 2 that leads to winter resort areas in the San Gabriel Mountains used largely by residents of greater Los Angeles and greater San Diego.

It drains a scenic mountainous area of the Cascade Range north of Redding and is a tributary of the Sacramento River.

The town is situated at the head of a scenic harbour and at the base of a vast mountainous tract extending northward.

The mountainous terrain around the city affords scenic views such as that from the mountain Sabga over the Ndop plain.

It runs through a scenic, mountainous area of western New Hampshire.

It runs through the scenic, mountainous area connecting Warren and Piermont.

The road winds through the scenic, mountainous country of New Hampshire north of the White Mountain National Forest.

The highway winds across the state, connecting Bath to Conway via the scenic and mountainous area of the White Mountain National Forest.

Vulgaria is a scenic, mountainous region similar to Austria, Switzerland or southern Germany.

The Rota Romântica ( Romantic Route ) is a scenic tourist route that runs through 13 municipalities located in the mountainous Serra Gaúcha region of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

However, the growing influence of Latin began to drive Basque out from the less mountainous portions of the region.

Hungary has three major geographic regions ( which are subdivided to seven smaller ones ): the Great Alföld, lying east of the Danube River ; the Transdanubia, a hilly region lying west of the Danube and extending to the Austrian foothills of the Alps ; and the North Hungarian Mountains, which is a mountainous and hilly country beyond the northern boundary of the Great Hungarian Plain.

The mountainous region of northern Iraq receives appreciably more precipitation than the central or southern desert region.

The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns.

The region is mainly flat and hilly, with small mountainous areas in the most eastern and southern districts.

In contrast, the Oaxacan region is known for its savory tamales, celebratory moles, and simple tlayudas, while the mountainous regions of the West ( Jalisco, etc.

Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

The mountainous region is sparsely populated above, but in central and western Nepal ethnic Tibetans inhabit even higher semi-arid valleys north of the Himalaya.

The Kingdom of Asturias was located in the Cantabrian Mountains, a wet and mountainous region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

The terrain of the two republics is extremely varied, with much of Serbia comprising plains and low hills ( except in the more mountainous region of Kosovo and Metohija ) and much of Montenegro consisting of high mountains.

During the 17th century, Muslim Fula from the Upper Niger and Senegal rivers moved into an area called Futa Jalon in the mountainous region north of present-day Sierra Leone.

Samaria (), or the Shomron (, ; ;, or, – also known as, ) is a mountainous region in the northern part of the geographical area to the west of the Jordan River, roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank.

The Aksai Chin region is a desert of salt flats around 5, 000 metres above sea level, and Arunachal Pradesh is mountainous with a number of peaks exceeding 7000 metres.

In the south and east the Amazon rainforest region has limited cross-border transport ; in the west, there is a mountainous border of over shared with Colombia.

The abundance of spices produced by central Vietnam ’ s mountainous terrain makes this region ’ s cuisine notable for its spicy food, which sets it apart from the two other regions of Vietnam where foods are mostly non-spicy.

Ethnic minorities in the mountainous region near the China – Vietnam border also adopted some foods from China.

A rugged and mountainous region, Epirus lay on the periphery of the ancient Greek world.

Epirus is a predominantly rugged and mountainous region.

It was complicated by the mountainous region in which the community was situated.

It is mainly a mountainous region.

The climate is influenced by the mountainous and hilly relief of the region: cold in the area of Monte Pollino, temperate with a very limited temperature range in the area of Aspromonte, while the Sila and Serre massifs ensure greater humidity on the Tyrrhenian coast and a drier climate on the Ionian coast.