My adidas TERREX brand review calls out the pros and cons of TERREX hiking footwear for men and women
HIKING FEET BRAND REVIEWS
Reviews of the best hiking footwear brands from a certified brand expert
Learn more about the best hiking boot brands and hiking shoe brands with Hiking Feet's brand reviews. As an outdoor industry professional, I'm a certified brand expert for many of the best brands. (This means I've completed brand training and passed tests on a brand's technologies and latest line of hiking footwear.) Plus, I've hiked 17,000 miles the past 15 years, personally testing hiking footwear from adidas TERREX, Altra, Asolo, Astral, Bedrock, Danner, Chaco, HOKA, KEEN, La Sportiva, Lems, LOWA, Mammut, Meindl, Merrell, Notiv8, Oboz, On, Salewa, Salomon, Scarpa, Tecnica, Teva, Topo Athletic, Vasque—and a few more brands that I'm probably forgetting.
With all my outdoor industry training and personal hiking experience, I know how most brands fit. I also know their pros and cons and how they stack up. Each brand review provides a quick overview of the brand, its best selling points, fitting tips, and recommendations for its best hiking boots, hiking shoes, and/or trail running shoes for hiking.
My goal is to help you find the brand that best fits your feet and best matches the trails you hike.
Testing one of the best brands at White Sands National Park in 2026
Best Hiking Boot Brands & Hiking Shoe Brands
In alphabetical order, the best hiking boot brands and hiking shoe brands are adidas TERREX, Altra, Danner, HOKA, KEEN, La Sportiva, LOWA, Oboz, On, Salewa, Salomon, Scarpa, Tecnica, and Topo Athletic. I've also included brand reviews for Merrell—a popular budget brand—and Vasque, a great brand that went out of business (but still has a few boots and shoes available online). I've personally sold each of these brands when I was a Gearhead at Backcountry and footwear manager at Appalachian Outdoors. In most cases, I've personally hiked in at least three different boots and shoes from a brand before I review it on Hiking Feet.
Learn more about the Best Brands
If you're considering adidas hiking shoes, you may be on to something. I used to have a rule: don't buy hiking shoes from any brand that makes basketball shoes. But then I tested some adidas—or, more accurately, adidas TERREX, which is adidas' outdoor brand. It's the exception to the rule. But the brand isn't for every
The Salomon X Ultra has been one of the world's best hiking shoes and lightweight hiking boots for more than a decade. I should know—I've personally owned eight or nine pairs and literally hiked thousands of miles in them. But Salomon made things confusing a couple of years back by releasing multiple versions of the X
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About Hiking Feet Brand Reviews
Hiking Feet brand reviews are based on my extensive hiking experience (17,000 miles in the past 15 years) and my professional experience in the outdoor industry. As an outdoor industry professional, I
Given all of my hiking experience and outdoor industry experience, I know how each brand fits, who tends to like/not like particular brands, what outdoor industry pros think about each brand, and where each brand sits in the unofficial hierarchy of the best brands for hiking boots, hiking shoes, and trail running shoes.
Hiking Feet does not publish sponsored posts. Every brand review is 100% independent and based on my professional judgment after testing at least three different models from a brand's line up. Each year I personally test and review approximately 20 hiking boots, hiking shoes, and trail running shoes while averaging 1200 hiking miles.
The Hiking Feet Brand Reviews share this expertise to help men and women find the brand(s) that fit their feet, budget, and hiking style.
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