r/WildernessBackpacking

Updated 2026-10-24

r/WildernessBackpacking is a Travel & Places community on Reddit with 807,174 members, ranking #29 of 1,085 in Travel & Places. A subreddit dedicated to backpacking in the wild places on earth - where people are few, cell signal is nil, and Mother Nature still reigns. Backpacking defined as multi-day trips into the wild, unpopulated, areas of the world.

807,174 membersTravel & Places#29 in category
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How big is r/WildernessBackpacking?

Created in 2014, r/WildernessBackpacking has had over a decade to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Travel & Places it ranks #29 of 1,085 communities we track — the top 2.7% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 785× the median Travel & Places subreddit, which has 1,028 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.

For scale, the largest Travel & Places community we track is r/travel with 14,363,834 members — roughly 18 times the size of r/WildernessBackpacking. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2014 sits in the middle wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/WildernessBackpacking on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.

Members807,174
CategoryTravel & Places
Rank in category#29 of 1,085
Created2014
Category median size1,028 members
Content ratingWork-safe (SFW)

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