Picking a caption can be tricky, but with hiking-themed pics, there are a bunch of good options. You can use a quote from some of the best nature-inclined thinkers and writers or you could always go for a hilarious hiking pun! Keep reading for 100 hiking Instagram captions.
100 Hiking Instagram Captions
- “I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild.” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild 2. “Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.” —Earl Shafferckies 3. Never take hiking for granite. 4. VIEWS.
- “Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better."—Albert Einstein 6. Mountain-ing my distance. 7. Two’s a company, trees a crowd. 8. Go where you feel most alive.
- I love camping—it’s in-tents. 10. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” —John Muir 11. Adventure awaits. 12. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” —John Muir 13.Leaf all your worries behind. 14. “Young and wild and free.” —“Young, Wild and Free” by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, feat. Bruno Mars 15. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Lao Tzu 16. Don’t peak. 17. Feeling peaky. 18. The mountain of youth? It’s hiking. 19. “Adventure is out there.” —Up
- “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” —Henry David Thoreau 21. To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.” —Tenzing Norga 22. Hike more, worry less. 23. Slow down! Don’t you Everest? 24. Sky above, Earth below, peace within.
- “Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; you have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits."—Cindy Ross
- Actions peak louder than words. 27. Eyes on the rise. 28. Do what feels good for your soul. 29. “It’s the climb.” —“The Climb” by Miley Cyrus
- “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild 31. Come hill or high water. 32. Life is better in hiking boots. 33. Wild is my favorite way to be. 34. Heels < Hiking boots 35. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau 36. I’ve been around the rock a few times. 37. Feeling pine. 38. Roam. 39. If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain. 40. Climb mountains, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world! 41. At times hike these, you just gotta get out. 42. Hiking with my birches. 43. “Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.” —Carrie Latet 44. Mountain conquerer. 45. Out of the woods. 46. Amongst the trees. 47. The trees are the bee’s knees. 48. Hike a balance. 49. The biggest wall you’ve got to climb is the one you’ve built in your mind. 50. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” —John Muir 51. I be-leaf in me. 52. Never stop exploring. 53. Women move mountains.
- “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity."—John Muir 55. Nature is cheaper than therapy. 56. All good things are wild and free. 57. Nothing to lose and a whole world to see. 58. A whole new world. 59. Moving mountains.
- “I’d finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild 61. There’s no such thing as too much fresh air.
- “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” –Hermann Buhl 63. Nobody ever complained about getting too much fresh air. 64. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” —Sir Edmund Hillary 65. “The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters. –Conrad Anker 66. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods.” —Unknown 67. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” —Jeffrey Rasley 68. “The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” —Rich Ridgeway 69. For the sake of your own soul, venture out. 70. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” —Frank A. Clark 71. Trailing behind. 72. It’s all downhill from here. 73. One step ahead. 74. Summit up nicely. 75. Keep calm and rock climb. 76. “Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” —Walt Whitman 77. Felt woodsy, might delete later. 78. You are not in the mountains; the mountains are in you. 79. “Come on skinny love, just last the year.” —“Skinny Love” by Bon Iver
- “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."—John Muir 81. The mountains are calling. 82. The mountains are my happy place. 83. The best views come after the hardest climb. 84. Take a hike. 85. “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.” —Edward Abbey 86. Always take the scenic route. 87. Bear with me. 88. Over the hill. 89. Left a trail behind me.
- “I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild 91. Never stop wandering. 92. Main-stream 93. Wonder, wander, just go. 94. Feeling woodsy. 95. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” —Aristotle 96. Keep going. 97. Wander where the Wi-Fi is weak. 98. “The earth has music for those who listen.” —George Santayana
- “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain."—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 100. Move the body, still the mind. Now that you’ve got that caption ready, check out the 50+ best hiking trails throughout the U.S.!
