A-Z of WALKS and CATEGORIES
Walking Portals
‘AllTrails is your guide to the outdoors! Whether you are using alltrails.com or the AllTrails app, you can easily find trails near you. With over 75,000+ hand curated trail maps, along with trail reviews and photos crowdsourced from a community of outdoor enthusiasts just like you, AllTrails makes exploring the outdoors a breeze.‘ (iFootpath, some walks of which have been referenced in Open Paths and Trails, is now part of AllTrails.)
Backpacking in Britain Featured
'As well as the popular National Parks, we describe routes in seldom trodden wild areas where we have walked for days and seen nobody at all, and there is plenty of inspiration to take ...
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'This Site is about backpacking mainly in mountainous and remote regions of England, Wales and Scotland, but also covers a few low-level routes and day walks. The backpack routes are mostly self-designed and exclusively wild-camped. The Trips&Photos section lists all the routes by date and area.'
'Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to ...
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‘The Association was established in 2003 to provide a national geocaching organisation and serve as a UK point of contact for geocachers, landowners, the media and others with an interest in geocaching.’
go4awalk.com Featured
'Whether you want to walk alone, with friends or with your partner & chlidren in The Lake District, The Yorkshire Dales, The Peak District or Snowdonia in North Wales, Ramble with a Pub ...
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'Brilliant Walks and Walk Ideas ... conceived, researched and described by walking experts to make sure you have a really fantastic day on Britain's hills, fells and mountains.'
GPS Cycle & Walking Routes Featured
Sections include: Walking Routes in England; Walking Routes in Scotland; Walking Routes in Wales; Walking Maps; National Trails; Rail Trails; Canal Walks; Walking Links.
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Detailed coverage of about 1,000 walks 'including descriptions, elevation profiles, interactive maps and GPS downloads'.
Walking 'The ultimate outdoor activity: You can walk almost anywhere at any time, discover new places and keep fit'
'RouteYou is all about recreational routes (walks, hikes, cycling tours, motor routes,....) ... RouteYou allows everybody to be creative with routes, make them, share them, promote them on RouteYou or any other site or blog. This means that as well professionals as semi-professionals as amateurs can make these routes ... RouteYou is not a creator of routes, but a facilitator to do so: a platform to allow authors and organisations to create, present, share and maintain their routes. And a lot of authors and organisations are making use of this. There are more than 4 million routes available on the platform.'
'Shepherds Walks was set up in 1999 by Jon Monks, who at that time was a full time Hill Shepherd in Northumberland. More used to looking after sheep he started shepherding people ...
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'Walker's Store ... Self Led Walking Guides ... Courses & Guided Walks ... Events ... Holidays ... Blog ... Education ... News' ... Northumberland, with some offerings in Cumbria and The Borders.
'Based in North Yorkshire, UK, 'timeoutdoors' aims to provide the most comprehensive resource for outdoor sports and activities enthusiasts in the UK. The business was founded in May 2000 and i ...
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'Aims to make it easy to get into outdoor activities and sports by bringing events, charity challenges, activities & holidays, clubs, expert advice, online shops, local shops, local specialists and accommodation all together under one roof.'
'A "Treasure Trail" is an imaginative way to explore somewhere new. An easy to follow route will enable you to crack the clues whilst taking in some of the most fascinating sights along the way ...
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'Treasure Trails create fun and unique ways for you to get outside and explore. We currently have over 1,100 Treasure Trails throughout the UK and are writing more every day.'
Walkhighlands Featured
'Walkhighlands is the busiest walking routes site in the UK and far and away the busiest outdoors website in Scotland, with 16,000 visitors each day viewing over 6 million pages of informa ...
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'Walkhighlands' misson is to encourage the enjoyment of walking through being the best information source and social network for walkers in Scotland. In doing so we also aim to help the small, local tourism businesses so vital to Scotland's rural economy through providing low-cost, highly-targetted advertising.'
Walking Britain Featured
'The concept of Walking Britain was formed during the summer of 1997. After a couple of false starts, an embryo site was constructed and uploaded to the web using free web space. A ...
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'With nearly 15,000 pages of walking information, including many walk descriptions, "Walking Britain" is dedicated to the footpaths that cross the landscape ... The aim is to make this the best walking site in Britain with a wide variety of walks and your input is always welcome ...'
Link to the Wikipedia Category listing six Subcategories and twenty-seven Pages. (Individually named paths, trails and related walks are referenced here under their name.)
Walking Pages Featured
'Our team are enthusiastic walkers like yourself who share your love of the countryside and, most importantly, believe in putting customer service and satisfaction first and foremost. We wi ...
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'Here at Walking Pages our mission is to provide a user friendly information resource for people who enjoy recreational walking in the countryside. We hope to give you ideas for places to go for a walk either locally or, if you are planning a holiday, anywhere in the British Isles.'
'Walking Places includes the following: JOURNALS: This section of the site is home to the hosted journals which members have asked us to publish ...; MICROSITES: The main portal page for a ...
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'Walking Places is your place on the web to store and publish your walking journals, diaries and guides. Whether you keep a record of the walks you do with the dog or write a daily diary of your long distance walks, we want you to tell the world about it, through the medium of Walking Places.'
ALERT 'Due to external time pressures, Walking Places, has had to close its doors to new journals, at least for the time being. This was not an easy decision to make, and apologies to anyone hoping to share their experiences. Hopefully this situation will change in the not too distant future ... [18 March 2020]
Main Boards include: Long Distance Walks Pennine Way, Coast to Coast, West Highland Way, etc.; Regions - Trip reports, destination advice, recommended routes, ...
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'Hello and welcome to the forum. Feel free to discuss any issues relating to walking and hiking in the UK here. Remember to bookmark this site and come back often to help make this a lively community and great resource for all ... Please do not advertise or promote your products or website on the boards (although you can put a link to your walking related site in your sig). Active members are welcome to include a link to their walking related website in our Links section where we'd normally expect a reciprocal link in return ...'
Walkingworld Featured
'The walks come in a unique format making them very easy to follow, with photographs to illustrate every important decision point and a proper Ordnance Survey map. An annual subscription of ...
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'On Walkingworld you can find over 7500 routes, contributed by more than 400 walk authors. This huge library of carefully prepared guides means you can find a selection of walks, of varying lengths and grades, pretty well anywhere in the country. The walks come in a unique format making them very easy to follow, with photographs to illustrate every important decision point and a proper OS 1:25,000 Explorer map.'
WalkNI.com Featured
Website produced by Outscape: 'A not-for-profit organisation working across the island of Ireland ... Since our establishment in 1999 we’ve been passionate about shaping the outdoors to im ...
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'Your Definitive Guide to Walking in Northern Ireland': Walks; Top Walking Destinations; Festivals; Accommodation; Clubs & Groups; and so on ...
'Access to our main website ... is free - and will always be free - as we want everyone to have access to our walks to be able to go and do them. Throughout the website, there are adverts for p ...
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Companion Website to the TV Series Walks Around Britain, first broadcast in January 2016: 'Each season is based on sharing our passion for short walks - with seven programmes each featuring two short walks from around Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.'
'Each WalkScene route provides a summary telling you its distance, the time it's likely to take, plus a difficulty rating. A handy "Getting there" feature will even help you find the w ...
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'Whether you’re a weekend rambler, like to walk once a month or a group planning its next charity hike, WalkScene is the website for you. We’re continually adding to our a growing list of detailed walking routes from around the country and further afield.'
'Welcome to Scotland, land of the brave and fearless. It is also land for the adventurous walker, camper and intrepid explorer. www.walkscotland.com is a comprehensive list of walking tours, mounta ...
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I have walked each one of the nearly 500 walks on the website since January 2010, some were familiar to me, others not. As well as devising what I believe is the best route I have taken the photogr ...
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'Where2Walk presents the best walks in the Yorkshire Dales, the best walks in the North York Moors , the best walks in the Lake District and where best to stay to fully enjoy them ... Each walk is FREE to use, to follow and download ... '
'Here you will find 1000's of UK web pages detailing on-line walking routes, hiking trails, route directions, route maps, GPS Routes, GPX routes etc. Some may have a theme, e.g. dog walks, pub walks, river walks, city walks, railway walks, canal walks, circular walks etc. The numbers in parenthesis, after each county or area name, indicate the number of links within that area.'
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