The Best Hiking Music to Listen to While Hiking
Here you will find the best hiking music to listen to and playlists to play while climbing your favorite mountains and trails. Hiking is one of my favorite activities to do in my free time. I truly believe being in nature heals people and reminds us just how beautiful and lucky we are to live here on Earth. In addition, to being in nature, music is another way I heal and get into a good mood. Thus, these two things together are how I relax and release a lot of stress.
In this post, you will see and hopefully be introduced to a lot of new hiking music, songs, hiking music playlist, hiking music artists, best hiking music, hiking music for Instagram, hiking music speaker, healing music radio, and more.
This post is all about hiking music.
Hiking Music:
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When hiking on the steep parts, I like to listen to pump up music. However, on the the flat parts, I like to listen to more calm/chill music. This hiking music playlist or list of song recommendations has a lot of pump on and chill music mixed in together. In my opinion, here is the best hiking music.
- Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
- Send Me On May – Rusted Root
- I Know & Not Ready to Wake Up- Aly & AJ
- Kings- Years & Years
- Slow Dancing (Hazel English Remix)- Aly & AJ
- John Deere Green – Hixtape, Joe Diffie, Post Malone, Morgan Wallen
- Chasin’ You & Thought You Should Know – Morgan
- Light Me Up- Birdy
- The Sound & About You – The 1975
- Big Lie & On the Road – Post Malone
- She Calls Me Back – Noah Kahan & Kacey Musgraves
- Time is Dancing – Ben Howard
- Easy – LVAN, Maybealice
- One Horse Town- Blackberry Smoke
- Farrah Fawcett Hair- The Capital Cities
- Daphne Blues- The Band CAMINO
- Levii’s Jeans – Beyoncé, Post Malone
- Sound of My Ceremony – Nipsey Hussle
- Two Pumps Texaco- Diamond Rio
- E^st- Life Goes
- Agora Hills – Doja Cat
- Vultures – John Mayer
- Cowboy Take Me Away – Sarah Darling
- Falling – Chase Atlantic
- High and Low- Empire of the Sun
- Cocoon- Catfish and the Bottlemen
- High – Stephen Sanchez
- The Spins – Mac Miller & Empire of the Sun
- Wasted – Chase Atlantic
- Purple Hat – Sofi Tukker
- Radio – Lana Del Rey
- Her Way (Sped Up) – PARTYNEXTDOOR
- White Horse – Chris Stapleton
- Face Like Thunder- The Japanese House
- Oh, What a World- Kacey Musgraves
- On My Mama – Victoria Monét
- The Tower – Future Islands
- We Got History – Mitchell Tenpenny
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings – Father John Misty
- Better- Khalid
- Scared to Live Without You – Morgan Wallen
- You – Wiz Khalifa & Ty Dolla $ign
- Holy- King Princess
- Surrender – RÜFÜS DU SOL & Curtis Harding
- Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
- Forever Young – Bob Dylan
- Reflections – Louis Cato
- Can’t Stop – One Republic
- Riverside – America
- Old Pine & Keep Your Head Up – Ben Howard
- Someone Like You – Van Morrison
- Things A Man Oughta Know – Lainey Wilson
- Boogie Shoes – KC & The Sunshine Band
- Wings – Birdy
- Groceries- Mallrat
- Lighthouse – Kygo, Zak Abel
- Man Down & Not the 1975 – Knox
- Simple Times – Kacey Musgraves
- One Life & Something to Someone – Dermot Kennedy
- Wish on An Eyelash Pt. 2 – Mallrat & The Chainsmokers
- Bliss- OTR
- Fire – Kate Hudson
- Everything – Switch Disco
- Mariposa- Peach Tree Rascals
- Sunset Lover- Petit Biscuit
- Garden – Nahko And Medicine For The People
- Alligator – Of Monster & Men
- Cowboy Gangster Politician – Goldie Boutilier
- No Man’s Land – Miranda Lambert
- Revival- Sigala
- The Middle – Emilee Moore
- Tequila Does – Remix & Tin Man – Miranda Lambert
- Honky Tonk Disco Nights (Dbv Remix) – Elle King, Nile Rogers, Audio Chateau & Del Boca Vista
- Whiskey on You – Nate Smith
- The Emperor’s Soundtrack – Lupe Fiasco
- Call on Me – Radio Mix – Eric Prydz
- Drifter – Morgin Madison & Dominique
- Burns Like Her – Randall King
- Relapse – Warren Zeiders
- Main One – Mario, Lil Wayne & Tyga
- Ecstacy (slowed) – Suicidal-idol
- Electricity – Silk City, Dua Lipa, Diplo & Mark Ronson
- Free Fallin’ & In Your Atmosphere – John Mayor
- Stronger Than a Storm – Dylan Gossett
- Tear Us Apart – Sam Barber
- Let Me Rock – Marc E. Bassy
- Rock the Casbah – The Clash
- I Feel Good – Pink Sweat$
- Sunshine – Lavern
- You Found Yours – Luke Combs
- Spin You Around – Morgan Wallen
- Dirt Road Anthem – Jason Aldean
- Wasted Time- Vance Joy, Lost Kings Remix
- Mr. Washington – Nahko And Medicine For The People
- Say Yes to Heaven – Lana Del Ray
- Chemtrails Over the Country Club – Lana Del Rey
- Thinking ‘Bout Love – Wild Rivers & Wrabel
- On My Love – Zara Larsson & David Guetta
- Leave & Party – King George
- Still Sleeping- Jai Wolf
- Firestone (feat. Conard Sewell)- Kygo
- Heart of Gold – Neil Young
- Jade Green & Sway – Kacey Musgraves
- The Business, Pt. II – Tiësto & Ty Dolla $ign
- Bops Goin Brazy – Tyga
- I’m A Believer – AFTERHOURS
- Home – Daughtry
- We Found Love (Acoustic Cover) – Calvin Harris, Rihanna & Gregory Aigersson
- Nothing to Be Scared Of – Kacey Musgraves
Hiking Music Artists
There are a lot of different artists and bands I like to listen to while hiking, however, I do have some favorites, that are relatively more chill than a lot of the artists listed above. Here are some of my favorite artists to listen to while hiking.
- Lumineers
- Nahko And Medicine For The People
- Dylan Gossett
- Leon Bridges
- Birdy
- Tyler Childers
- Maggie Rogers
- Of Monster & Men
- Miranda Lambert
- Chris Stapleton
- Kacey Musgraves
- Ben Howard
- The 1975
- Morgan Wallen
- Father John Misty
- Wild Rivers
- Hozier
- Noah Kahan
Healing Music Radio
If you have Spotify, they offer many different radios with healing music and music with no words, if you prefer that. Some great radios are Healing Mix, Healing Music Therapy, Healing + Cleansing Frequencies, Music for Healing, Healing Songs, and many more if you type into Spotify, healing music. Also, I recommend Time is Dancing Radio and I also like to look at the different mixes that Spotify has made for me. Some that I recommend are the Happy Mix, Chill Mix, 2010s Mix, or any mixes that pop up for you on your Spotify or Apple Music that sound like the vibe you want for the day.
Hiking Music Speaker
Lots of people like to listen to a speaker while hiking, which I do recommend. Now, I don’t recommend blasting the speaker and being that annoyingly loud person on the trail, but I do think it’s a good idea, especially if you’re hiking by yourself, to make some kind of noise. That being said, I would keep your music at a nice medium level or podcast, podcasts are great to listen to while hiking as well.
Especially when you’re hiking by yourself, PLEASE don’t hike with headphones in, if anything happens, you won’t know, because you can’t hear it. By making some kind of noise, you are warning/scaring off nearby animals, while also warning other hikers that you are close by. I recommend getting a speaker that can easily clip to your hiking bag, so it’s easy to carry. You don’t want a speaker that’s super heavy or big because that will just add more weight to your pack. Which is why I recommend different speakers that have clips. Here are some other nice, small speakers that I would use.
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Best Hiking Songs for Instagram Reels
Now, when I post on social media, specifically Instagram (hiking reel music), I vary from using music with lyrics to only instrumental music. Now, if you are making a reel with words, or you have yourself talking, then I would recommend using instrumental music. Yo-Yo Ma has some great instrumental music that you could use, as well as, George Winston and Yiruma. They have great piano solos.
Now, if you’re not talking in your reel, then I recommend any of the songs already listed above for hiking music for Instagram. You could also use this for Instagram stories. Now, for youtube hiking videos, you could use nocopyrightsounds (free) or Epidemic Sound (have to pay for). As far as other social media goes, like TikTok, I would use the same songs that I use for Instagram.
And that concludes this article about the different hiking music to listen to while exploring nature. I hope you find some new songs to play while climbing your favorite and new mountains. Thank you so much for reading and take care.
