How to visit remote mountain trails without a car
Exploring remote mountainous regions without a car is often inconvenient due to a lack of super-existent public transport. This forces travelers to navigate complex logistics, making it difficult to access trails independently.
What the numbers show
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- It goes quiet, then comes back — 3 separate clusters since March 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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How to visit remote mountain trails without a car
- 1renting a car to get aroundDid this help you?
- 2taking buses and cable carsDid this help you?
- 3HitchhikingDid this help you?
- 4Renting a car despite dislike of drivingDid this help you?
- 5Joining guided group toursDid this help you?
- 6Choosing islands like Tenerife that are known to have reliable bus routes to their national parks.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I spent a week solo in the Dolomites back in 2023, traveling and exploring without a car for most of the time, which was quite inconvenient”source ↗
“Got through a lot of West Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other places that don’t have super existent public transport that way”source ↗
“beacause without a car even as a tunisian i struggle to go to some places such as testour , dougga etc”source ↗
“While we understand many on reddit are huge proponents of renting a car, we are not huge fans of driving, hence we'd like to minimize the amount of driving as much as possible. That said, if we were to turn to tour groups for help with getting around, what we've been hearing is that group tours give you an experience that's more touch-and-go.”source ↗
“I'm fine with occasionally annoying public transport, but on Madeira it's more like nonexistent, and definitely so for most of it outside of Funchal. While it has some good hiking, the getting-there part will be a challenge, especially for anything beyond the Funchal area.”source ↗
“For a young solo traveler, who plans to go without a car in late november, which island would you recommend?”source ↗
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