Make it yours
Your itinerary, not ours.
Change the pace, distance, dates and duration. We rebuild the stages around what you want to walk, run or fastpack.
See how we plan it →Self-guided walking, trail running & fastpacking
Big trails.
Your way.
The route you've been dreaming of, planned around how you want to do it.
The experience
Planned by people who love the trail.
We handle the logistics so you can focus on the adventure. Planned entirely around how you want to do it.
Trail people
Planned by runners and walkers.
We know the routes because we've walked, run and mapped them — and written the guidebooks to some of them.
Meet the team →
Go it alone
Independent, not unsupported.
Solo travellers get location sharing as they walk, and human support from someone who knows their itinerary.
Explore solo trips →Not every trail.
The right ones.
Booking nowScotland · Glasgow to Fort William
West Highland Way
154 km · 6–8 days
Scotland's original long-distance walk — Loch Lomond, Rannoch Moor, Glen Coe and the shadow of Ben Nevis.
Plan your adventure →Booking nowEngland · Yorkshire Dales
Dales Way
130 km · 5–7 days
Ilkley to Bowness along the rivers Wharfe and Dee. Stone villages, meadow paths, and a gentle way into the Lakes.
Plan your adventure →
Booking nowSpain · Mallorca
GR221 — Serra de Tramuntana
150 km · 7–9 days
The dry-stone route through Mallorca's mountains. Olive terraces, monastery beds, and the Mediterranean below.
Plan your adventure →
Booking nowPortugal · Rota Vicentina
Fisherman's Trail
230 km · 10–13 days
Cliff-top paths above the Atlantic from Porto Covo south to the Algarve. Fishing villages, sand, and salt air.
Plan your adventure →Walk it. Run it. Fastpack it.
Your trail.
Your way.
Every trip is planned by one of us especially for you, so the same trail becomes a different adventure depending on how you want to do it.
Classic
Take your time.
The pace you'd walk on your own, with the logistics all taken care of. Rest days where you want them, days that work with your fitness, accommodation we know by name.
Walking adventures →Fastpacker
Cover more ground each day.
Longer stages, more focused on moving at pace. We stretch the itinerary to match what you can actually do in a day.
Fastpacking →Trail runner
Run the route.
Multi-day routes built around a runner's pace, and accommodation that opens the door at 8pm without looking at their watch. Planned by people who run adventures regularly.
Running adventures →Go it alone
Going solo? Go.
Independent, not unsupported.
Your location is shared automatically as you walk, so we know where you are and the people at home can watch the dot. We know your itinerary, the accommodation is expecting you, and if you need us there's a real person at the end of the phone.
Explore solo adventures →Bring your people
Going with friends? Don't become the treasurer.
Plan the adventure. Don't chase the money.
Create the trip, invite your group, and everyone pays their own way. Each walker puts down their own deposit by card and fills in their own details. No bank transfers to collect, no spreadsheet of who's paid.
Plan a group adventure →Why Big Trail Adventures?
- Trail people, not travel agents.
- We know the routes because we've walked, run and mapped them — and written the guidebooks to some of them.
- Your whole trip in one place.
- Route, accommodation, luggage and your personalised Trail Book — day by day, in your pocket, offline.
From the team
What we've loved recently.
We're out on these trails with our own families and friends. When something sticks with us, we write it down and put it on the shelf.
A note from Rob — Cumbria Way
On the third day, walking the Cumbria Way with my family, we came across a table in the woods with a note on it. The fairies had been making flapjacks, it said, and we should look out for them in the Witches Kitchen. We did exactly that — saved the flapjack for our afternoon stop and ate it with our feet cooling off in the river.
RobCo-founderReal people.
Real trails.
We collect the stories walkers bring back — the wet days, the village pubs, the moment the cloud lifts — and publish them in the journal. The podcast is coming.
West Highland Way
Advice From Other Hikers: The West Highland Way
We asked our Facebook community of West Highland Way finishers one question: what single piece of advice would you give somebody setting off tomorrow?
20 August 20266 min read
Solo adventures
7 Tips for Your First Solo Adventure
Nobody to consult with in tricky moments, nobody to blame when you get lost, nobody else's snacks to share. Elise Downing — who ran 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain, mostly alone — on how to stay safe and get the most out of going it alone.
18 August 20267 min read
The Ridgeway
Two Sticks of Rock
Elise Downing ran the Ridgeway in three days. Two friends tried to walk the same distances. It went about as well as last time.
22 May 20264 min read
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