🥾 Hiking Project Scraper

❓ What is this scraper?

This scraper extracts structured hiking trail data from Hiking Project — a crowd-sourced platform designed to help people discover and explore trails.

Hiking Project’s mission is to inspire outdoor exploration by providing accurate, community-driven trail information. The platform allows users to contribute trails, photos, ratings, and updates, while ensuring quality through content review.

The extracted data is normalized into a structured format, making it easy to use for analysis, integrations, or storage.

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⚡ Why this scraper?

Hiking Project provides rich, structured information about hiking trails across different regions. This scraper allows you to:

• Discover trails based on search queries and locations
• Build datasets of hiking routes and trail metadata
• Analyze trail difficulty, elevation, and terrain
• Aggregate trail information for apps or mapping platforms
• Track ratings and publicly available trail details at scale

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📥 Input

{
  "maxItems": 5,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/search?q=massachusetts&type=routes"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

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📤 Output

Each trail is returned as a structured JSON object:

{
  "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7118864/cape-cod-rail-trail",
  "title": "Cape Cod Rail Trail",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "summary": "“A trail through six Cape Cod cities. ”",
  "description": "The terrain is very flat and there is little challenge in the trail, and a route from start to end one way takes around three hours.",
  "stats": {
    "distanceMiles": "29.6",
    "trailType": "Point to Point",
    "highElevation": "109'",
    "lowElevation": "4'",
    "elevationGain": "468'",
    "elevationLoss": "456'",
    "avgGrade": "1%",
    "maxGrade": "6%"
  },
  "rating": {
    "value": "5.0",
    "votes": "1",
    "rankInArea": "#2",
    "rankInState": "#80",
    "rankOverall": "#6,515"
  },
  "location": {
    "breadcrumb": [
      "Areas",
      "MA",
      "Cape Cod and the Islands"
    ],
    "latitude": "41.67770625",
    "longitude": "-70.24918947"
  },
  "dogs": "Off-leash",
  "features": "Commonly Backpacked · Views",
  "familyFriendly": "Lots of picnic tables, restaurants, and restrooms near the trail.",
  "landManager": {
    "name": "MA DCR - Nickerson State Park",
    "url": "https://www.mass.gov/locations/nickerson-state-park"
  },
  "sharedBy": {
    "name": "Andrii Rosa",
    "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/user/202133725/andrii-rosa"
  },
  "photos": [],
  "conditions": "Unknown",
  "nearbyRoutes": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7036161/pine-tree-trail",
      "name": "Pine Tree Trail",
      "difficulty": "blue",
      "distanceMiles": "3.7 mi",
      "elevationGain": "216' Up",
      "elevationLoss": "216' Down",
      "thumbnail": "https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7040695_sqsmall_1555094306.jpg?cache=1777111857",
      "location": "Pocasset, MA"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7035931/wellfleet-audobon-loop",
      "name": "Wellfleet Audobon Loop",
      "difficulty": "greenblue",
      "distanceMiles": "1.7 mi",
      "elevationGain": "57' Up",
      "elevationLoss": "58' Down",
      "thumbnail": "https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7036590_sqsmall_1555022636.jpg?cache=1777111667",
      "location": "North E…, MA"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7032322/pamet-loop",
      "name": "Pamet Loop",
      "difficulty": "blueblack",
      "distanceMiles": "5.4 mi",
      "elevationGain": "239' Up",
      "elevationLoss": "239' Down",
      "thumbnail": "https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7033232_sqsmall_1554997521.jpg?cache=1777111517",
      "location": "Truro, MA"
    }
  ]
}

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Image Credit

Image Credit: https://www.hikingproject.com/