Starting with the splotchy rhyolite mountains of Landmannalaugar, as colorful as an artist’s paint palette, Iceland’s fabled Laugavegur Trail doesn’t slouch on the scenery for the entire route southward.
Laugavegur Trail, Iceland The author, left, and friend hiking the Laugavegur Trail (Photo: Courtesy Emily Pennington) One thing’s for certain-every one of these 13 trips is a bucket-list-worthy escape.
Here are the most stunning, with accommodations that range from rustic guesthouses run by locals to high-altitude refugios to backcountry bunkhouses set amid scenery that will soothe your soul. has several well-known and well-regarded hut systems, I’ve hiked a handful of the world’s most famous hut-to-hut trails and can tell you that some trekking systems abroad are worth traveling for. The merits of hut-to-hut hiking are many: it’s one of the most accessible ways to tackle a multiday outdoor adventure, offers the benefits of backcountry camping-crowd-free sunrise vistas, deep wilderness immersion, and long, glorious days on the trail-and promises the creature comforts of home, notably running water, toilet facilities and a warm, dry place to sleep.
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