The Alps are covered by an unusually rich English-language web: solo hikers documenting hut-to-hut routes, ski journalists filing snow reports from December to May, expats explaining how a Swiss valley actually works, and local operators who publish genuinely useful trail logistics. This TOP 50 gathers the blogs and websites we keep coming back to when we research a valley, a resort or a mountain hotel. Every entry below was checked to be live and publishing, and each one is described by what it actually covers rather than by a generic label. Use it as a reading list, a planning shortcut, or a way to find the one writer who has already walked the trail you are considering.
Alps-wide travel and hiking blogs
1. Moon & Honey Travel — Run by Sabrina and Kati from Vienna, it is one of the deepest English archives on Alpine hiking: hut-to-hut treks, day-hike round-ups by massif, and separate guides to spa and design hotels in the Alps. moonhoneytravel.com
2. Earth Trekkers — A family travel site with long, well-structured planning guides, including detailed Switzerland and Dolomites itineraries and a Bernese Oberland section built around cogwheel trains and village bases. earthtrekkers.com
3. Full Suitcase — Practical, map-heavy itineraries aimed at first-time visitors; its Dolomites hiking round-ups spell out trailheads, parking and timing rather than just scenery. fullsuitcase.com
4. The Common Wanderer — A photography-led travel blog with substantial Dolomites day-hike guides and summer coverage of South Tyrol, mixing outdoor routes with food and culture. thecommonwanderer.com
5. Adventures of A+K — Adam and Kathryn write stop-by-stop road-trip guides; their Julian Alps piece strings together hikes, viewpoints and activities across Slovenia in one usable loop. adventuresofaplusk.com
6. Salt in Our Hair — A visual, itinerary-first blog with an Austria hub covering top places, hikes and route planning for travellers who want the shots as well as the trail. saltinourhair.com
7. Why Not Walk — Custom "walk the world" guides that treat cities and mountains the same way; the Dolomites guide breaks the range down into six specific hikes in the Italian Alps. whynotwalk.com
8. Journey Era — Jackson Groves' adventure blog, notable in an Alpine context for its very large trail catalogue, including a 50-strong list of the best hikes in Switzerland. journeyera.com
Switzerland
9. Newly Swissed — Founded in 2010 by Dimitri Burkhard, this online magazine covers Swiss culture, design, events, oddities and tourism, and is aimed as much at people settling in Switzerland as at visitors. newlyswissed.com
10. Novo-Monde — A Swiss couple writing in English and French, with a strong backpacking-Switzerland section: transport, budget, and hiking advice from people who live there. novo-monde.com
11. Swiss Family Fun — Tanya Deans has catalogued family-friendly hikes and outings from Zürich since 2005, with the practical detail (pushchair access, timings, transport) that most hiking blogs skip. swissfamilyfun.com
12. Switzerland by Locals — Insider tips on known and lesser-known Swiss spots, written by locals and heavily driven by their own on-the-ground photography. switzerlandbylocals.com
13. Switzerland Insider — Region-by-region travel guides with cultural context, including a full Jungfrau region guide, aimed at people who want to travel Switzerland properly rather than tick off viewpoints. switzerlandinsider.com
14. MyHammockTime — An adventure travel blog based in Zürich, focused on Swiss hidden gems, viewpoints, lakes and hikes, plus notes on living abroad in Switzerland. myhammocktime.com
15. Aplins in the Alps — Built around the idea of travelling Switzerland with confidence, with useful head-to-head posts such as Jungfrau versus Zermatt for travellers who can only pick one. aplinsinthealps.com
16. Dirty Shoes & Epic Views — An outdoor-focused couple's blog whose Swiss work stands out for its complete Jungfrau region guide with maps, village comparisons and hiking options. dirtyshoesandepicviews.com
France and the French Alps
17. Chamonix.net — A long-running English-language visitor site for Chamonix Mont-Blanc, covering the valley across all four seasons plus a running local news section. chamonix.net
18. Planet Chamonix — A locals' guide to Chamonix with news, events, weather and chalet rentals, useful for checking what is actually open and happening in the valley. planetchamonix.com
19. See Chamonix — Chamonix news and reviews curated by resort insiders, alongside booking-oriented pages for activities and accommodation. seechamonix.com
20. AliKats — Morzine chalet hosts who write about the Portes du Soleil from the inside, including day-trip guides such as Lake Annecy and their own low-impact approach to chalet hosting. alikats.eu
21. The La Tania Ski Blog — A resort information and community site running since 1999, with snow reports, webcams, weather and après notes from locals in La Tania and the Three Valleys. latania.co.uk
22. Ski Peak — A catered chalet specialist for Vaujany and Alpe d'Huez whose blog covers resort logistics, ski trip planning and summer holidays in the same corner of the French Alps. skipeak.net
23. Top Snow Travel — A France-only ski holiday specialist publishing resort reviews, hotel picks and planning tips focused on 4- and 5-star stays in the French Alps. topsnowtravel.com
24. Henry's Avalanche Talk — Off-piste and avalanche awareness training run by a team of ski professionals, with a blog aimed at ordinary skiers who want to leave the piste safely. henrysavalanchetalk.com
Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Germany
25. Dolomites Guide — Trail-tested Dolomites itineraries, mountain hut guides and the practical logistics (booking, transport, timing) that independent trekkers actually get stuck on. dolomites-guide.com
26. Dolomites Active Tours — Written by Justin and Lucille, expats living in the Dolomites, with strong explainer content on how rifugi work and why self-guided hiking suits the range. dolomitesactivetours.com
27. Hut to Hut Hiking Dolomites — Dedicated to multi-day hut-to-hut routes across the Italian range, with stage breakdowns and comparisons between the classic traverses. huttohuthikingdolomites.com
28. Throne & Vine — One of the few English sites built specifically around South Tyrol and the Dolomites, with itineraries, insider tips and trip-planning services for the region. throneandvine.com
29. Travel Tyrol — A Tyrol-first travel blog written from a local perspective, covering Innsbruck, the valleys and what to see and do across Austria's western Alps. traveltyrol.com
30. Carly Hulls — Slow travel and life in Austria, with essays and guides spanning Tyrol, Salzburg, Graz and Vienna from someone who has settled there. carlyhulls.com
31. Ready, Steady, Travel — Maria Eckl's blog leans hard into insider tips and off-the-beaten-track routes, including regularly updated picks of the best hikes in Bavaria. ready-steady-travel.com
32. The Always Wanderer — An off-the-beaten-path hiking blog covering Europe and Asia, with an ever-growing list of Bavarian hikes for people basing themselves near Munich. thealwayswanderer.com
33. Exploring Slovenia — Hikes and climbs in the Slovenian mountains: Triglav, the Julian Alps, the Triglav lakes and the Soča Valley, including what the region looks like in winter. exploringslovenia.com
34. Slotrips — A Slovenian local operator whose hiking content is genuinely useful on its own, covering the Julian Alps traverse, the Juliana Trail and how to hike Slovenia independently. slovenia-trips.com
Ski media, snow reports and winter magazines
35. PlanetSKI — A ski and snowboard news site updated year-round, mixing breaking resort news, snow reports and reporting from competitive snowsports. planetski.eu
36. InTheSnow — The free UK winter sports news magazine edited by ski journalist Patrick Thorne, with ski news, gear tests and resort guides. inthesnow.com
37. Welove2ski — Founded in 2007 by UK winter sports writers who between them have skied several hundred resorts; resort guides, snow reports, gear deep-dives and family ski advice. welove2ski.com
38. Fall Line Skiing — A UK ski magazine with a large roster of experienced writers, strongest on backcountry, powder, gear reviews and resort travel. fall-line.co.uk
39. Style Altitude — An independent snowsports magazine covering snow reports and conditions, mountain webcams, ski touring, seasonaire life and gear reviews. stylealtitude.com
40. Skier & Snowboarder Magazine — The UK's original free ski and snowboard magazine, with equipment and fashion reviews, destination reports and racing coverage. skierandsnowboarder.com
41. snowHeads — A long-running UK ski forum where the value is the crowd: impartial conditions reports, resort debates and off-piste discussion from people currently on the hill. snowheads.com
42. Snow-Forecast — Snow forecasts, reports, webcams and live conditions for thousands of resorts, with separate forecasts for top lift, mid-mountain and base elevations. snow-forecast.com
Mountain sport, guiding and alpine stays
43. Alpenwild — Alps hiking specialists publishing route and destination articles alongside their Haute Route, Via Alpina and Swiss rail and culinary trips. alpenwild.com
44. Alpine Hikers — Twenty-plus years of guided and self-guided hiking in Switzerland, France and Italy, with a blog that goes region by region, including bases like Garmisch-Partenkirchen. alpinehikers.com
45. Hut to Hut Hiking Switzerland — Self-guided Swiss trekking with an unusually decision-useful blog, including a straight comparison of the Haute Route and the Tour du Mont Blanc. huttohuthikingswitzerland.com
46. PlanetMountain — An Italian site with a full English edition covering alpinism, climbing, trekking, ski mountaineering and via ferrata, plus a searchable route database from the Dolomites to Mont Blanc. planetmountain.com
47. UKClimbing — The UK climbing community's main hub, with destination forums and articles that are a good place to sanity-check an Alpine objective or a via ferrata plan. ukclimbing.com
48. 57hours — A guided adventure platform whose long-form guides — hiking the Dolomites, the Tour du Mont Blanc hut-to-hut — are written with mountain guides and stand up as research on their own. 57hours.com
49. Ski In Luxury — Founded in 2005 by Andy and Fran Castle, it curates luxury chalets across France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, and its blog is a reliable read on high-end Alpine hotels. skiinluxury.com
50. The Aficionados — A curated guide to design-led boutique hotels, architecture and makers running since 2009, with a dedicated South Tyrol section covering mountain hotels and landmarks. theaficionados.com
How this TOP 50 is built
We select sites that publish substantive, first-hand content about the European Alps in English, that were live and updating when we checked them, and that add something a reader cannot get from a booking engine — local knowledge, tested routes, honest resort reporting or a specific regional focus. The order is editorial and grouped by theme; it is not a ranking of quality, and the list is reviewed and updated continuously as sites appear, change direction or go quiet. If you run an Alpine blog or website you think belongs here, get in touch through the contact details on our about page and tell us what you cover.
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Frequently asked questions
Which blog should I start with if I have never been to the Alps?
Start with a broad planning site to choose a region, then switch to a local one. Moon & Honey Travel and Earth Trekkers are good for narrowing down a valley or massif; once you have picked a destination, a site like Throne & Vine for South Tyrol, Chamonix.net for the Mont Blanc valley or Exploring Slovenia for the Julian Alps will give you far more usable detail.
Are the ski media sites useful outside winter?
Several are. PlanetSKI, InTheSnow and Fall Line Skiing publish year-round on resort investment, lift projects, glacier and summer skiing and season planning, while Snow-Forecast and snowHeads become most valuable from roughly November onwards, when conditions and live reports start driving decisions.
Why are tour operators and guiding companies included alongside personal blogs?
Because in the Alps some of the best free trail and rifugio information is published by people who run the routes every season — hut booking rules, stage lengths, when a col opens. We include them when the editorial content is genuinely useful on its own, and we describe them as what they are so you know the context you are reading in.
Planning an alpine trip yourself? Start with our free Alpine City Guides, or read where to stay in the Dolomites and our Zermatt ski resort guide.