18 articles found
Article · 1 Apr 2025
Wales boasts over 1,200 miles of designated trails, from the peaks of Snowdonia or Pen Y Fan, to the coastal paths of Pembrokeshire. With landscapes ranging from rolling hills to...
Article · 28 Mar 2025
Looking to escape the crowds? This month, we're focussing on alternatives to popular hiking trails. So, if you've completed some classic trails and are looking for a hidden gem,...
Article · 19 Feb 2025
In May 2012, the Wales Coast Path (WCP) officially opened, and since then, outdoor enthusiasts have been running and walking the coastline. As the longest waymarked trail in Britain, the route certainly poses challenges, but it is also a journey of...
Article · 13 Feb 2025
The joys of walking in the Brecon Beacons are endless. Stand atop a windswept peak and take in the sweeping views, or follow a woodland trail where the sound of rushing water...
Article · 6 Sept 2023
Officially opened in 1970, the Pembrokeshire Coast Path offers some of the finest walking in Britain; mile after mile of ever-changing natural beauty, where the juxtaposition of...
Article · 5 Sept 2023
The Snowdonia Way is a fantastic long-distance walking trail that spans the full length of the National Park, offering a journey through diverse landscapes – mountains, valleys,...
Article · 25 Aug 2023
The county of Shropshire has been one of England’s best kept secrets for years. It is England’s most rural county with only two large towns –Telford and Shrewsbury, but it is blessed with some of the best hills and ridges outside the national...
Article · 25 Aug 2023
Are you an adventurous and experienced walker looking to discover Wales in a whole new way? Here's an introduction to the Cambrian Way – a challenging but rewarding long-distance route from Cardiff to Conwy, showcasing some of the best mountainous...
Article · 25 Aug 2023
Glyndŵr’s Way (Llwybr Glyndŵr) is named after the remarkable late-medieval Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr, and is one of three National Trails in Wales. It links at either end – Knighton and Welshpool – with the Offa’s Dyke Path, and this...
Article · 25 Aug 2023
The iconic earthwork of Offa’s Dyke, the longest linear earthwork in Britain, stands as a stunning testament to the determination and skill of its creators, being a defining landscape feature of the Welsh borders.
Feature · 27 Mar 2021
2021 sees the 70th anniversary of the UK’s first national parks. Here, Cicerone's Natalie Simpson takes a look back at the campaign for their creation and the legislation that...
Feature · 3 Jul 2019
North Wales is a landscape that has been hundreds of millions of years in the making. Through volcanoes, moving continents, Ice Ages and the industrialisation and use of the...
Feature · 25 Aug 2018
Richard Barrett thinks the Lôn Las Cymru long-distance cycle route should be on your bucket list, and here’s why.
Article · 2 Sept 2017
One of the benefits of being in a country full of once-glaciated mountains is that they throw up an excellent variety of narrow ridges. Often it is possible to walk two of these mountain arêtes in a day, combining the ridges with the main mountain...
Feature · 5 Sept 2016
Guidebook author John Gillham shares his ten favourite hillwalking spots in Shropshire. Shropshire’s not a place associated with charts or hill lists but these hills deserve to be celebrated.
Article · 21 Jul 2016
A few Welsh words for hillwalkers from author Terry Fletcher. It's always good manners to learn a few new words when you visit a different country and your reception is usually friendlier if you make the effort, even if you don't need to.
Article · 24 May 2016
Fancy a more interesting and more challenging alternative to the 3 peaks? Terry Fletcher, author of the Cicerone guidebook to mountain walking in Snowdonia, introduces the Welsh 3000s - a great challenge for a weekend in Wales.
Feature · 8 May 2016
Looking for a ridge walk in Snowdonia away from the chatter and the chaos of summer crowds? A place only the ravens seem to know of? Terry Fletcher has the answer: the ever quiet, always queue-free Nantlle Ridge, as described in Cicerone's Mountain...