page_title: Czech Hiking Markers System
section_title: Czech Markers around the world
hierarchical_section_title: Czech Hiking Markers System / Czech Markers around the world
caption_attribution_description: English: Signs of three hiking trails on a tree near river Vydra, Bohemian Forest Čeština: Tři turistické značky na stromě u řeky Vydry na Šumavě
context_page_description: The Czech Hiking Markers Standard is an international system of hiking markers for tourist trails, used in more countries than any competing standard. The signs and markers can be used in both wilderness and cities.
context_section_description: Due to the relative ease of use and low cost, the system has spread to many other countries, often by Czech people. Originally used in the Czech Republic, the system spread through Central Europe and Eastern Europe and even to countries outside Europe. Nearly identical systems exist in the neighbouring countries of Austria and Poland.
  Austria's standard is almost identical, with red-white-red stripes used instead of white-red-white The same colours are used in the Czech Republic for cycling trails.
  Azerbaijan.
  Brazil.
  Bosnia - Maglić Mountain
  Bulgaria
  Croatia especially on the island of Krk, with a map available in local tourist centers. The Czech Tourist Club marked a network of historical goat trails that can now be used by tourists hiking in the mountains.
  Czech Republic - fully covered with marked trails and detailed maps and the densest trail network in the world
  Georgia - Caucasus trails marked by Czech volunteers, particularly the mountain border between Georgia, Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.
  Hungary
  Israel - trail markers are larger (approximately 20x15 cm) but based on the same three stripe scheme. Long trails replace one of the white stripes with purple (regional) or orange (national).
  Peru
  Philippines - Three new trails were marked to showcase the system on Mt. Kanlaon Volcano, Negros Island, with the trail marked by Czech volunteers from Mendel University, in cooperation with the Czech Embassy. Additional new and more extensive trails have been marked in 2017;
  Poland - these markers are especially common on trails near the Czech and Slovak borders. The system is a slight expansion of the Czech model, adding black to the four colors used in the Czech markers.
  Romania - 300-400 km of trails marked by the Czech Tourist Club in the Banat region, as well as a 360 km mountain trail leading from Slovakia across Ukraine to Romania.
  Slovakia fully covered with marked trails and detailed maps
  Switzerland uses a modified form with blue marking Alpine trails, which are more difficult than red trails
  Ukraine especially in Subcarpathian Ukraine and Crimea with some 700 km of trails marked in 2011 in Subcarpathia and continuing efforts by Czech, Ukraininan and Polish volunteers to mark additional routes with part of the program sponsored by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Maps of the trails are available.
caption: Several trails marked together before they split in different directions
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