Jeju Olle Trail

The Jeju Olle Trail (Jeju Olle) is a long-distance walking network on Jeju Island, built as 21 connected numbered main routes plus six sub-routes and a short airport connector. The full circuit is about 437 km and is designed to be walked in sections rather than as one single push.

The routes are mostly coastal-facing, running past beaches, fishing villages, and pockets of indigenous forest, with frequent detours to offshore islets. Trail alignments and exact lengths shift over time as sections are modified or re-routed.

The main route difficulty is managed stage-to-stage; the overall experience is built for long, slow walking across varied ground types—dirt paths, boardwalks, beaches, rocky coastline, and paved roads through towns.

For wayfinding, the trail uses ribbon-and-marker guidance: blue and orange ribbons, plus arrows that indicate the walking direction. A common approach is to follow the numbered stages sequentially around the island, looping back to the starting area across multiple days.

Jeju Olle has a structured progress system. Walkers collect stamps from start/middle/end points (at wooden, pony-shaped stamp boxes) using a passport purchased for this purpose; completion is handled at the Jeju Olle HQ in Seogwipo.

This trail is oriented for year-round hiking, with the usual heat advisory expectation in midsummer (July–August). Routes and logistics often change with weather, so offshore-islet sections are typically planned with flexibility.

More information: Wikipedia, Jeju Olle Trail: Routes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7-1 - Going the Whole Hogg, Trails and Tangerines: Thru-Hiking Across Jeju Island, South ...