Sammiana - Macedonian Endless Trail
Sammiana - Macedonian Endless Trail is part of the national hiking network in OpenStreetMap. The line mapped in OpenStreetMap is 90.3 km long inside Greece (the length of the line, not a walking time). It crosses 4 regional units, most of its length in Pella. OpenStreetMap maps it as 9 separate sections with variants, so no single start and end are named here. No place with a page lies within 1 km of the line. Operator according to OpenStreetMap: AMBT Sammiana.
The route and its length
The length is the sum of the mapped ways of the OpenStreetMap relation, measured along the line and only inside Greece. It is not a walking time and not a difficulty.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Length of the line inside Greece | 90.3 km (OpenStreetMap) |
| Shape | Several sections and variants |
OpenStreetMap maps it as 9 separate sections with variants, so no single start and end are named here.
The highest peak with a page within 2 km is Kajmakčalan (2,528 m, Wikidata). There is no elevation profile: the site has no elevation model fine enough to draw one along the route.
Waymark in OpenStreetMap (osmc:symbol "red:red:white_bar:∞:black"): a red background, a white bar and the text «∞». We do not know whether the marking is on the ground today.
Stages and sections
| Section | Ref | Network | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sammiana I2 | – | national | 79.6 km |
| Sammiana I3 | – | national | 10.7 km |
The table shows the relations that contain no other relation of the group; where two relations share part of the line, that part is counted once in the total but appears in both rows of the table.
Mountains, huts, sights and protected areas
Distances are in a straight line from the mapped line, not walking distances; peaks, huts, sights and lakes are within 2 km. This page does not describe climbs, difficulty or conditions. The length inside a Natura 2000 site was measured on the line thinned to about 100 m.
Peaks
| Peak | Height | Source | Distance from the line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kajmakčalan | 2,528 m | Wikidata | 26 m |
| Kožuf | 2,208 m | Wikidata | 166 m |
| Belo Grotlo | 2,104 m | Wikidata | 381 m |
| Kara Kozia | 1,640 m | Wikidata | 827 m |
Mountain huts and shelters
| Name | Kind | Operator | Distance from the line | Height | Beds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Дудицки Колиби | wilderness hut | – | 3 m | 1,735 m | – |
| Голубец | alpine hut | ZPK Zelen Breg | 12 m | 1,686 m | – |
| Ορειβατικό Καταφύγιο ανάγκης | basic hut | – | 1.4 km | – | – |
A hut on the map does not mean it is open, staffed or available; ask its operator about opening times, bookings and condition.
Ski centres
- Voras Kaimaktsalan Ski Centre6 lifts, 1.9 km from the line
Ski centres with a page within 25 km of the line, in a straight line. It does not mean the trail leads to them or that they are open.
Natura 2000 protected areas
| Site | Code | Line inside the boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Ori Tzena | GR1240002 | 4.0 km |
| Ori Tzena Kai Pinovo | GR1240007 | 4.0 km |
| Koryfes Orous Vora | GR1240001 | 2.2 km |
| Oros Voras | GR1240008 | 2.2 km |
Where it lies
The regional units and municipalities the line passes through, with its length in each (OpenStreetMap boundaries; those with at least 1 km or 5% of the length are listed).
Regional units
Municipalities
- Almopia Municipality65.2 km
- Municipality of Florina14.4 km
- Kilkis Municipality9.3 km
- Sintiki Municipality1.4 km
Daylight
Sunrise and sunset at the middle of the route for the 15th of each month, in Greek time (Europe/Athens). Calculated with the standard solar-geometry formula for a flat horizon; terrain and cloud are not taken into account. In deep gorges or in the shadow of mountains dusk comes earlier.
| Month | Day length | Sunrise | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5 h | 07:54 | 17:25 |
| February | 10.6 h | 07:27 | 18:04 |
| March | 11.9 h | 06:45 | 18:37 |
| April | 13.3 h | 06:53 | 20:09 |
| May | 14.4 h | 06:14 | 20:41 |
| June | 15.1 h | 05:58 | 21:05 |
| July | 14.9 h | 06:11 | 21:03 |
| August | 13.9 h | 06:40 | 20:32 |
| September | 12.5 h | 07:10 | 19:43 |
| October | 11.2 h | 07:41 | 18:52 |
| November | 9.9 h | 07:18 | 17:14 |
| December | 9.2 h | 07:49 | 17:03 |
Trail safety
In an emergency call 112, the European emergency number. For information, training and the mountaineering clubs, the federation is the Hellenic Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (ΕΟΟΑ).
The line of the route was drawn by volunteers in OpenStreetMap and may be incomplete or out of date. We do not know whether the trail is open, waymarked or passable today, or what the conditions are. This page gives no directions for the route or for climbs, no difficulty grade, no walking time and no weather forecast. Ask the operator, a local club or the forest service before you set out.
How the numbers were counted
The trails are the hiking routes (route=hiking) of OpenStreetMap (ODbL, Geofabrik snapshot of 24 Sep 2026). A trail has a page when it has a name or a ref (a route with only a local number and no name needs an operator and a website), at least 4 km of line in Greece, and two of: at least 3 places with a page near the line, a mountain hut, a peak with a page, a Natura 2000 site, a website in the OpenStreetMap tags. Relations that are the same trail in sections (same super-relation, the same E4 or E6 ref, the same name and operator) are joined into one page and a shared stretch is counted once. There are at most 100 pages, ranked by network level (international, national, regional, local), then length, number of places and whether there is a website or operator; at most four trails of one numbered series.
The length is the sum of the lengths of the relation's ways, worked out on the original OpenStreetMap nodes, inside the boundaries of Greek municipalities (a way is split at the vertices of the line thinned to about 100 m). Units and municipalities are decided by the middle of each piece of line. The places, peaks, sights and lakes are pages of this site and the distance is the shortest straight line from their point to the line. Natura 2000 membership is whether the middle of each piece falls inside the Ministry's boundary (YPEN geoportal).
The website is the one OpenStreetMap lists for the route; we link it without having read or checked it. Trails are mapped by volunteers and are not an official trail register; the network (international, national, regional, local) is as the mappers tagged it. No durations, difficulty or elevation profile are shown.
See also
- Almopia Municipalitymunicipality
- Municipality of Florinamunicipality
- Kilkis Municipalitymunicipality
- Sintiki Municipalitymunicipality
- Pellaregional unit
- Florinaregional unit
- Kilkisregional unit
- Serresregional unit
- Central Macedoniaregion
- All trailslist
- Mountains and peakslist
- Natura 2000 siteslist
- Regions of Greecelist
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from the sources below, with the date each was updated.
- OpenStreetMap: hiking trails and routes, with name, network, operator, website and waymarkOpenStreetMap contributors, via a Geofabrik snapshot · Geofabrik snapshot of 24 September 2026 · Date:
- Everyday places, tourism, transport and natureOpenStreetMap contributors, via the Overpass API · Live database at the time of the query · Date:
- OpenStreetMap: peak elevations, mountain huts and hiking routesOpenStreetMap contributors, via a Geofabrik snapshot · Geofabrik snapshot of 24 September 2026 · Date:
- Wikidata: mountains and peaks, heights, prominence and mountain rangesWikidata contributors · Live SPARQL query snapshot, taken 9 October 2026 · Date:
- Natura 2000 protected sitesMinistry for Environment and Energy: YPEN geoportal · Current national Natura 2000 network · Date:
- OpenStreetMap: ski lifts, pistes and winter-sports areasOpenStreetMap contributors, via a Geofabrik snapshot · Geofabrik snapshot of 24 September 2026 · Date:
- This route's item in Wikidata (link only)Wikidata contributors, CC0
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