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Everyone wants an active lifestyle these days, and that’s why hiking is more popular than ever.
It’s widely accessible, can be adapted to different skill levels, and is excellent for improving one’s general wellbeing.
If you’re offering guided hikes, you’ll want a website that can:
- Make it easy for clients to book a hike
- Share your company’s story
- Show off testimonials from happy clients
- Include gorgeous photographs from past hikes
This is all easily done with one of the hiking WordPress themes below.
Keep reading to find our top picks.
Hiking WordPress themes
There are literally tens of thousands of WordPress themes available, so we hope you appreciate that your selection is narrowed down to just a few.
The themes here all have professional designs, customizable page templates, and are completely mobile-friendly. While the designs featured in the screenshots below are beautiful, you can customize any of these themes to look wildly different from the previews here.
Here are my top picks for best hiking WordPress themes for 2022.
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1. The Mounty by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
The Mounty is a modern WordPress theme that works well for campgrounds, summer camps, and hiking websites. It features a gorgeous and adaptive layout that looks great on all screen sizes.
One reason to choose The Mounty for your site is that it is loaded with pre-made templates that you can drag and drop into your site. While there is a bit of a learning curve to figure out this site-building system, you’ll never have to write code or do anything very technical. This hiking theme includes the WPBakery Page Builder plugin for free, which gives you the ability to build your site with drag and drop.
The Mounty is also fully compatible with popular free and premium WordPress plugins, such as Revolution Slider, Essential Grid, Booked Appointments, Events Calendar, and WooCommerce. This will make it easy for potential clients to book an appointment or even purchase items from an eCommerce store on your site.
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2. Tourimo by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Tourimo is a beautiful and media-rich theme for travel agencies and tour operators. It’s easy to imagine how you could adapt this for a hiking website by looking at the screenshot above. And by the way, if you click the image above, it will take you to the full details of Tourimo including live demos.
It’s also a great choice for companies that want to offer online booking and tour scheduling. Visitors will love that they can quickly sign up for a walking tour, hiking trip, or guided excursion with just a few clicks. There’s also WooCommerce integration for selling tickets to events and tours.
When it comes to customization, there are five creative homepage demos included in Tourimo. It’s designed to work with the free Elementor page builder plugin that lets you drag and drop elements into place and even add complete page templates to your site.
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3. Qwery by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Qwery is one of the most flexible and dynamic WordPress themes ever made. It includes more than 70+ pre-made site designs that you can quickly import and start customizing. This is made possible thanks to the integration with the Elementor plugin, which serves as the backbone for page-building functionality.
Due to all the layouts, you can easily build a custom website for a hiking or tour agency. Not to mention, you could reuse it for dozens more websites if you want. There are also two premium-quality online booking plugins included for giving visitors the option to schedule a guided hike all on their own.
Another excellent quality of this theme is its integration with thousands of free and premium plugins. One of the most important is The Events Calendar plugin, which you can use to publish your hiking schedule the same way a gym might post its class times.
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4. Hello Summer by AxiomThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
The Hello Summer WordPress theme is another awesome choice for anyone building a hiking or outdoor activities website. Its feature-rich design solution includes customizable layouts, color options, custom fonts, and tons of pre-made pages and page elements.
It’s built for summer camps, in particular, but you can imagine how the design could be adapted easily to suit a hiking website. Everything you see in the screenshot above is totally editable. Not only can you swap out the text and images, but you can also change the fonts, colors, and entire layout of the page. These types of customization are made possible by Hello Summer’s integration with the WP Bakery Page Builder plugin, which comes bundled with it for free.
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5. Briny by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
The bold design of Briny makes it a perfect theme for scuba diving, extreme sports, and outdoor events. It’s fully compatible with Elementor, WooCommerce, WPML, and other popular WordPress plugins.
Briny is fully responsive, which means your site will look stunning on all handheld and desktop devices. And that goes for all of the templates included in Briny. In addition to the homepage, the pre-made inner pages will save you a ton of time since you won’t have to create any of your page designs from scratch.
To make your site more visually striking, the theme is loaded with beautiful galleries and portfolio layouts, that are great for showing off photos. You might also appreciate the bundled Instagram plugin for showing off your social feed.
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6. SevenHills by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
SevenHills is a ready-to-go WordPress theme for summer camps and outdoor activities. There are two pre-designed homepages available, so you can quickly decide which one is best for your site and then get to work customizing.
In addition to the pre-built pages, SevenHills is loaded with business tools and bonus plugins to promote your services and communicate with clients. The Online Appointments booking plugin and contact forms make it easy for clients to schedule their first visit and book a hike. And since the design is responsive, they can use these tools whether they’re on a laptop or mobile device. SevenHills also includes WooCommerce compatibility, so you can launch an entire eCommerce store on your site.
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7. DiveIt by AncoraThemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
The modern and purpose-driven design of the DiveIt WordPress theme makes it an excellent choice for outdoor excursions, especially water-based ones, such as snorkeling, kayaking, and scuba diving.
DiveIt includes numerous customization tools and features that will allow you to customize the text, images, and overall layout of every page. This includes the header and footer, as well as the page content. Thus, it can be adapted for many purposes, such as diving schools, travel agencies, cruise lines, winter sports, and summer hikes. Most of the customization options are powered by the drag-and-drop editor, WPBakery Page Builder, which comes bundled for free with DiveIt. This gives you a system for inserting templates into pages and editing them however you want.
Which hiking theme is best for you?
Still struggling to make a choice?
Here are a few final tips to select the perfect theme.
The Mounty has an awesome design and flexible customization tools, making it an all-around great choice for a hiking website.
Qwery might be the best choice for your site if you’re a professional web builder because it can be reused to create completely different site designs.
I hope this collection of the best WordPress themes for guided hikes helped you out today. If you found the perfect template, please consider using the social media buttons below to share this article with someone else.
Ben Sibley
Ben Sibley is a WordPress theme designer & developer, and founder of Compete Themes.