The European Ramblers’ Association (ERA) was founded in Germany in 1969. Today, this umbrella organisation comprises more than 60 walking organisations from more than 30 European countries. These organisations have a total of 3 million individual members.
Most of the member organisations have long experience in organising and creating conditions to facilitate walking (waymarking, construction of huts etc.) and in arranging activities for the members. Some of them have been in existence for more than one hundred years (the oldest for more than 150 years).