Planning a hike but tak sure whether kena apply permit? Type the gunung or bukit below — we cover 101 Malaysian mountains, all from our own researched hiking guides.
Full list: permit status by state
Johor
- 🔴 Bukit Selantai — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Arong — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Bekok — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Belumut — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Ledang — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Panti — Permit needed
- ✅ Gunung Lambak — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Gunung Pulai — It's complicated
Kedah
- 🔴 Bukit Hijau — Permit needed
- 🔴 Bukit Perangin — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Baling — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Inas (Kedah) — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Machinchang — Permit needed
- ✅ Gunung Raya — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Gunung Jerai — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Gunung Keriang — It's complicated
Kelantan
- 🔴 Gunung Chamah — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Stong — Permit needed
Kuala Lumpur
- ✅ Bukit Dinding — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Bukit Kiara — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Bukit Sri Bintang — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Taman Tugu — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Bukit Kerinchi — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Ketumbar — It's complicated
Melaka
- 🔴 Bukit Batu Lebah — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Beruang — No permit needed — just go
Negeri Sembilan
- 🔴 Bukit Putus (Gunung Angsi) — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Angsi — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Berembun — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Besar Hantu — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Datuk — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Telapak Buruk — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Batu Putih — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Gunung Tampin — It's complicated
Pahang
- 🔴 Bukit Fraser Pine Tree Trail — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Benom — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Brinchang — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Gap — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Irau — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Rajah — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Tahan — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Tapis — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Panorama — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Gunung Jasar — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Gunung Senyum — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Gunung Ulu Kali — It's complicated
Perak
- 🔴 Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill) — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Bintang — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Bubu — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Gayong — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Korbu — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Liang — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Siku — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Suku — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Yong Belar — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Yong Yap — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Bangkong — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Bukit Kledang — It's complicated
Perlis
- ✅ Bukit Ayer — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Bukit Keteri — No permit needed — just go
Pulau Pinang
- ✅ Bukit Mertajam — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Penang Hill — No permit needed — just go
Sabah
- 🔴 Gunung Kinabalu — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Tambuyukon — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Trus Madi — Permit needed
- 🔴 Maragang Hill — Permit needed
- 🔴 Sosodikon Hill — Permit needed
- ⚠️ Bukit Kokol — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Madei — It's complicated
Sarawak
- 🔴 Bukit Lambir (Lambir Hills National Park) — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Gading — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Mulu — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Santubong — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Serapi — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Sikai — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Gunung Murud — No permit needed — just go
Selangor
- 🔴 Apek Hill (Bukit Apek) — Permit needed
- 🔴 Broga Hill — Permit needed
- 🔴 Bukit Kembara — Permit needed
- 🔴 Bukit Lagong — Permit needed
- 🔴 Bukit Saga — Permit needed
- 🔴 Bukit Tabur — Permit needed
- 🔴 Genting Peres — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Hitam — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Nuang — Permit needed
- 🔴 Gunung Ulu Semangkok — Permit needed
- 🔴 Kota Damansara Community Forest — Permit needed
- 🔴 Sungai Chiling Waterfall — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Gasing — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Bukit Jugra — No permit needed — just go
- ✅ Denai Tiga Puteri — No permit needed — just go
- ⚠️ Bukit Batu Chondong — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Besi — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Sapu Tangan — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Takun — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Tunggul — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Bukit Wawasan — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Gunung Bunga Buah — It's complicated
- ⚠️ Sungai Pisang Waterfall — It's complicated
Terengganu
- 🔴 Gunung Tebu — Permit needed
- ✅ Bukit Maras — No permit needed — just go
Permit requirements change — always check with the local forestry office or park authority before you go. Last updated: 2026-08-14.