502 articles found
Article · 22 Jul 2026
Derbyshire is a county the Victorian critic John Ruskin praised for its compact variety, a landscape small enough to take in at a glance: gritstone edges and moorland giving way...
Article · 22 Jul 2026
Slovenia may be one of Europe's smallest countries, but the Slovene Mountain Trail (Slovenska planinska pot, or Transverzala) packs an extraordinary range of landscape into its...
Article · 21 Jul 2026
Deep in the Austrian Tirol, the Zillertal is a 50km dead-end valley that opens out into one of the Eastern Alps' great hut-to-hut playgrounds, with over a dozen huts strung across...
Article · 20 Jul 2026
The Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest national park in continental Europe, a vast wilderness of glaciated 3000m peaks centred on the Grossglockner, Austria's highest...
Article · 20 Jul 2026
This planning guide covers everything you need to plan walking on the West Pennine Moors, based on Terry Marsh's 30-walk Cicerone guidebook. Marsh knows this landscape intimately:...
Article · 17 Jul 2026
Set between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, the Lune Valley "begs discovery," and this planning guide will help you find the right walk among the 40 circular day walks...
Article · 17 Jul 2026
For generations, the word 'Lancashire' conjured smoky mill towns rather than wild moorland, and Terry Marsh's Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle sets out to correct that...
Article · 16 Jul 2026
This is a region of superlatives: once the world's greatest producer of lead, home to England's most powerful waterfalls, and holder of several records for extreme weather. For...
Article · 14 Jul 2026
The moors of the North York Moors National Park are of no great height, yet they offer a wonderful sense of spaciousness, with extensive views opening out under a big sky. Deep,...
Article · 10 Jul 2026
County Durham is, in Paddy Dillon's words, "a land of change": a richly wooded, ancient landscape running from the high Pennines in the west to a low cliff coast in the east,...
Article · 9 Jul 2026
Every year thousands of cyclists set off from St Jean-Pied-de-Port in the French Pyrenees to follow the Camino Francés, the medieval pilgrim road that has drawn walkers and...
Article · 8 Jul 2026
This planning guide covers everything you need to know before walking on the Uists and Barra, islands that lie on the very edge of Europe, where the approach by air or sea only...
Article · 7 Jul 2026
In September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson set off from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille with a stubborn donkey called Modestine, on a 12-day journey through the Cévennes that would...
Article · 7 Jul 2026
Running along the spine of England from Rochdale to the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and on into Cumbria, the Pennine Bridleway was purpose-built for mountain bikers, and it shows:...
Article · 7 Jul 2026
Tucked away off the Kintyre peninsula, some 80km (50 miles) west of Glasgow as the crow flies, Jura, Islay and Colonsay sit apart from the routes that draw most walkers north to...
Article · 6 Jul 2026
Chamonix to Zermatt, Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn: two of the greatest names in mountaineering linked by 14 days of high alpine travel. The Walker's Haute Route crosses 215km (134...
Article · 6 Jul 2026
Few long-distance trails in Europe deserve the word epic quite like the High Scardus Trail (HST). Running for 314km (195 miles) through the mountainous borderlands of North...
Article · 6 Jul 2026
Getting to Harris and Lewis costs more, and takes longer, than a flight to the guaranteed warmth of southern Europe, and once you're there the weather is unlikely to cooperate for...
Article · 2 Jul 2026
Fifty fells, fifty Great Mountain Days: that is the promise behind Mark Richards' Best Walks in the Lake District. Ranging from a gentle introduction on Lingmoor Fell to the long...
Article · 2 Jul 2026
The Apennines, the rugged spine that runs the length of the Italian peninsula, are without doubt Italy's best-kept walking secret. While the Alps draw the crowds, this elongated...