Hiking trails (HT) together with attndance is one of the causes of increased devastation of the high mountain land- scape. The subject of the evaluation is the proper HT and its disturbed surroundings. In establishment of landscape load by HT the main input parameters are: abiotic landscape indices (resistance of rocks, inclination, topographic position), biotic landscape indices (physiognomic-formational landscape types, occurrence of valuable biotopes), socioeconomic landscape indices (infrastructure, high mountain facilities and diffrent sport events, frequency of tourists on the paths), abiotic and technical indices of the proper HT (surface, inclination, length and width of HT) and biotic indices of the disturbed surroundings of HT (vegetation cover, forms of vegetation, vitality of vegetation and dominance of plant species in the surroundings of HT). The outputs are the degrees of landscape load by HT (actual devastation of landscape and potential devastation of HT) and a proposal of measures of reduction of these negative consequences.