The Ruhrhöhenweg is a long-distance hiking trail that accompanies the Ruhr from its source at Winterberg in the Hochsauerland to its confluence with the Rhine at the Rhine Orange sculpture in Duisburg. The 219km long Ruhr is the king of the rivers in North Rhine-Westphalia, not only because the Ruhrgebiet, the largest industrial region in Europe, developed along the Ruhr, to which Germany owes a lot of prosperity, but also because the Ruhr represents more like hardly any other river the diversity of the North Rhine-Westphalian landscapes.

Startpunkt ist die Saalburg, das einzige vollständig rekonstruierte Römerkastell am UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe Limes. Der Rundweg führt vom Limes zum Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark und zurück. Von der Saalburg aus geht es über den mittleren Hangweg in Richtung Hessenpark. Zur Orientierung dient das Symbol "Braunes Ahornblatt".

The Boundary Waters Traverse links the two main trails through the heart of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: The Border Route Trail and the Kekekabic Trail into one roughly 110 mile journey through the heart of the Boundary Waters.