Trail route and destination guides
Walking in the Lake District: a complete planning guide
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...
The John Muir Trail: a complete planning guide
The John Muir Trail (JMT) is one of the world's great long-distance treks and North America's best-known mid-distance wilderness hiking route. Running for 216 miles through the high Sierra Nevada...
Italy's Grande Traversata delle Alpi: a complete planning guide
The Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) is one of the great alpine treks: 809km and over 57,000m of ascent and descent, crossing Italy from the Swiss border in the high...
Walking in the Algarve: a complete planning guide
Portugal's southernmost region is far more than its famous sandy beaches suggest. The Algarve offers 32 graded day walks ranging from 4 to 18km (2 to 11 miles), taking walkers...
Walking on Rum and the Small Isles: a complete planning guide
Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna lie scattered off mainland Scotland's Atlantic coast, overlooked by the crowds drawn to the famously scenic grandeur of neighbouring Skye — and that, for the...
Walking in the Julian Alps of Slovenia: a complete planning guide
Slovenia's Julian Alps are not as high as their western Alpine relations, but they are no less imposing. Limestone peaks plunge into flower meadows, waterfalls cascade from cliffs and then...
Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West — what you need to know
Ange Harker is the author of the Cicerone guidebook to the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West. In her day job, she has been part of Natural England's...
Coastal Walks in Andalucia: a complete planning guide
Just a few hundred metres from Andalucia's famous beaches, the mountains of the Subbetica range rise steeply from the coast to offer some of the finest walking in southern Europe....
Walking the Jurassic Coast: a complete planning guide
The Jurassic Coast between Exmouth in East Devon and Poole Bay in Dorset is the only stretch of coastline in the UK to hold UNESCO Natural World Heritage status —...
Walking in Tuscany: a complete planning guide
Glorious Tuscany is one of the world's most beautiful walking destinations. Gently rolling hills clothed with fields of golden wheat and scarlet poppies, winding lanes lined with pencil-straight cypress trees,...
Camino de Santiago – Camino Francés: a complete planning guide
The Camino Francés is the most legendary, most travelled, and most revered of the Camino de Santiago's many routes. The 'French Way' begins on the French slopes of the Pyrenees...
Walking in the South Downs National Park: a complete planning guide
Walk the South Downs on a clear day and the world opens up. Smooth green ridges stretch roughly 90 miles from the white cliffs of Beachy Head near Eastbourne to...
The GR5 Trail – Benelux and Lorraine: a complete planning guide
The thought that you can step off a ferry on the North Sea coast and follow a single waymarked trail all the way to the Mediterranean is both thrilling and...
The GR5 Trail – Vosges and Jura: a complete planning guide
Imagine a landscape of rolling hills and deeply cut gorges, of ruined castles, villages with half-timbered houses, and a network of footpaths weaving through forests. That is how Les and...
GR5 Vosges and Jura – walking the borderlands of France
By Les Smith and Elizabeth Smith When the time came to update their Cicerone guide, Les and Elizabeth Smith were happy to have an excuse to revisit the Vosges and...
The GR5 Trail – Through the French Alps: a complete planning guide
Trekking across the French Alps between Lake Geneva and Nice sounds daunting even for experienced long-distance walkers. But step back and put it in perspective: well-graded paths, strategic cols between...
Walking in Worcestershire: a complete planning guide
Worcestershire is a county of gentle rolling countryside, winding rivers, and distinctive hill ranges that rise above fertile lowlands. Bordered in part by the Malvern Hills, the Clent Hills, the...
Walking on the Amalfi Coast: a complete planning guide
The Tyrrhenian Sea in southern Italy is an area of dramatic coastal scenery, none more so than in the Gulfs of Naples and Salerno. There is the picture-perfect island of...
Walking in the Yorkshire Dales North and East: a complete planning guide
The Yorkshire Dales is like nowhere else in England. Bestriding the central Pennines, the backbone of the country, this compact upland world of interwoven horizons rewards the walker with something...
Walking in Umbria: a complete planning guide
Landlocked Umbria is Italy's only landlocked region and, as any walker who has been there will tell you, one of its most rewarding. Rolling hills swathed in dense woods, hilltop...
Walking Lake Garda and Iseo: a complete planning guide
At the foot of the Alps in north Italy, the magnificent expanse of Lago di Garda is an irresistible magnet for sport and nature lovers, along with its attractive western...
Walking in the Yorkshire Dales South and West: a complete planning guide
Where the Pennine Way drops south into Craven, the sombre mill valleys give way to something altogether brighter: rolling green hills broken by rugged scars of white limestone, rising to...
Walking in Lancashire: a complete planning guide
Make no mistake: Lancashire is one of the wealthiest counties in England when it comes to natural assets. Two National Landscapes, 160 kilometres of coastline, upland reservoirs, internationally important nature...
Walking in the Cotswolds: a complete planning guide
Quintessential England. Chocolate-box pretty. Gentle, undulating hills. It's almost as if there's a law against describing the Cotswolds without the clichés. But get to know these stout, gutsy hills and...