🥾Keningau
#13 Hiking Trails in Malaysia · 2026
Mount Trusmadi
🌺🌺🌺 Highly Recommended · 🥾 Hiking Trails
Why go
Sabah's second tallest peak at 2,642m, with a steeper, wilder trail than Kinabalu.
⭐ Don't miss: Summit sunrise
- Entry fee
- Sabah Forestry Department climb permit and licensed forestry guide mandatory (no solo climbs); usually booked as operator packages, roughly RM1,900+ per person in 2026
- Opening hours
- By advance booking only; overnight stay required; 4WD access to trailheads (check before you go)
- Best time to go
- Mar to Sept
- Time needed
- 3-4 days
- How to get there
- Guided via operator; 4 hours drive.
- Address
- Mount Trusmadi, 89008 Keningau, Sabah
- Area
- Sinua, Keningau, Sabah
- Facilities
- 🧭 guided tours
- Muslim-friendly
- No surau confirmed on site
Surau/halal options not confirmed by JAKIM at the trailhead; check locally. - Accessibility
- Not accessible
- Kids
- Not suitable
☪️ Halal status changes. For food, look for a valid JAKIM certificate (check at myehalal.halal.gov.my). Hotels and venues we have not verified are described as "pork-free", not halal.
⚠️ Safety & weather
- Guide and permit mandatory
- very steep