50 Best Country Songs About Hiking
Top Country Tracks for Hiking Adventures
There’s a strange kind of quiet that follows you when you’re miles into a trail. It’s not silence, not exactly peace, but something layered under the crunch of gravel and the push of wind through the trees. Boots get heavy, your shirt sticks, and there’s a song looping in your head that somehow matches the pace. The right track doesn’t smooth it over or try to make it pretty. It sits with the sweat and the blisters, finding that odd rhythm that comes when your thoughts start untangling one by one.
Most hikes are a mix of grit and reward. There’s the awkward start where you’re adjusting straps and trying to find your stride, then the stretch where your breath evens out and the world opens up in pieces. Somewhere along the way a chorus hits that feels like it belongs to the moment, whether it’s a twangy guitar pushing you forward or a mellow verse pulling you into the scenery. You think of those playlists where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs share space, but this one leans into the dust, the wind, the way the trail curves around the next bend.
Not every climb feels like an epic journey. Some are slow, stubborn, and full of moments where you question why you started at all. That’s when the right song drops in and changes the weight of the steps. These are the country tracks that can keep pace with you when the trail gets long and the horizon feels far away. Here are the best country songs for hiking.
Top 10 Hiking Country Songs
1. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
2. 'Mountain Music'—Alabama
3. 'Rocky Mountain High'—John Denver
4. 'Wagon Wheel'—Old Crow Medicine Show
5. 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)'—The Proclaimers
6. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
7. 'On the Road Again'—Willie Nelson
8. 'I'm Just a Country Boy'—Don Williams
9. 'King of the Road'—Roger Miller
10. 'The Road Goes On Forever'—Joe Ely
Country Music for Adventure and Travel #11—20
11. 'I Can Still Make Cheyenne'—George Strait
12. 'Traveller'—Chris Stapleton
13. 'Roll Me Away'—Bob Seger
14. 'Call of the Wild'—Chris LeDoux
15. 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'—John Denver
16. 'Life is a Highway'—Rascal Flatts
17. 'Fishin' in the Dark'—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
18. 'My Tennessee Mountain Home'—Dolly Parton
19. 'A Hundred and Sixty Acres'—Marty Robbins
20. 'Where the Wild Things Are'—Luke Combs
Road Trip and Nature Inspired Country Songs #21—30
21. 'Cowpoke'—Colter Wall
22. 'Take a Back Road'—Rodney Atkins
23. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
24. 'Pass It On Down'—Alabama
25. 'Paradise'—John Prine
26. 'Carolina in the Pines'—Michael Martin Murphey
27. 'Green River'—Creedence Clearwater Revival
28. 'Free'—Zac Brown Band
29. 'I Am the Highway'—Audioslave
30. 'Wicked Twisted Road'—Reckless Kelly
Outdoor Country Songs for Adventure and Escape #31—40
31. 'The Bird Hunters'—Turnpike Troubadours
32. 'Little Foothills Heaven'—Corb Lund
33. 'Wyoming'—Benjamin Tod
34. 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune'—Bob Dylan
35. 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'—Waylon Jennings
36. 'The Highwayman'—The Highwaymen
37. 'Lonesome Fugitive'—Merle Haggard
38. 'Ramblin' Fever'—Merle Haggard
39. 'Where The Rivers Run'—Charles Wesley Godwin
40. 'Humble and Kind'—Tim McGraw
Country Music for Nature and Open Roads #41—50
41. 'Long White Line'—Sturgill Simpson
42. 'Pancho and Lefty'—Townes Van Zandt
43. 'Driving My Life Away'—Eddie Rabbitt
44. 'Take It Easy'—Eagles
45. 'The Road Goes on Forever'—Robert Earl Keen
46. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
47. 'Whiskey'—Trampled by Turtles
48. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
49. 'Days Go By'—Keith Urban
50. 'Wildflowers'—Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
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