Who's coming · Your dog
Trails without a stile every field, accommodation that's genuinely pleased to see them, days sized to their legs, and their food, bed and accessories carried from stay to stay with the luggage. One clear supplement, no hidden charges.
Walking with your dog
Most people who walk with a dog do the planning twice: once for themselves, and then again — harder, later, at midnight — for the dog. Which stiles are ladder stiles. Which pub has one room that takes dogs, already booked. Whether 26 km is fair on a nine-year-old spaniel. How on earth you carry a week of food, a bed and everything else.
So we do that part. Your dog goes on the booking as a named member of the party, with their breed and their age, because those two facts change the shape of the week more than anything else. We then pick the ground and the stages to suit them, and book stays where dogs are welcomed as part of the family rather than tolerated for a surcharge on arrival.
The £35 per dog per night supplement covers everything — accommodation, any dog charges and moving their bag from stay to stay. Their food, bed and other accessories travel with the luggage transfer, so you're not hauling dog kit over the hills. And the day lengths are a guide, not a rule: you know your dog. Tell us they'd happily do more and we'll stretch the stages.
What changes when the dog comes
Your dog goes on the trip with a name, a breed and an age. Everything we send you — and everything we send the places you're staying — knows who's coming.
Dog-friendly is a low bar. We book stays that welcome dogs as part of the family, so arriving after a long day feels like arriving somewhere that expected you both.
Breed and age shape the week. Tell us both and we'll suggest a distance range, then plan the stages around it — stretched or shortened on your say-so.
Food, bed, towels, toys — the kit that makes a week away possible. Pack it with your luggage and the transfer takes it from stay to stay, so you're not hauling dog gear over the hills.
Pick a trail above and add your dog in the planner — you'll see the day-length guidance and the £35 per night fee before you go anywhere near a payment page. That supplement covers their stay and moving their bag; there are no hidden charges when you arrive.
One thing to know: dogs come on the trails above, where we've lined up stays and transfers that welcome them. On other trips they can only join if we've agreed it with you in writing first — ask us and we'll tell you honestly whether it works. Assistance dogs are welcome on every trip.
Before you set off
We plan the week around your dog. The day itself is yours to judge — these are the four things that catch people out most.
Most of these trails cross working farmland. Dogs must be on a lead around livestock, through fields and wherever local signage says so — and recall alone isn't enough near sheep, especially at lambing time.
Access rights differ by country and by season. We flag the stretches where a lead is required, but the call on the ground is yours.
Dogs overheat long before people do. In warm weather, start early, take the shaded stages, and be willing to cut a day short or take a transfer — we'd far rather rearrange a day than have you push on.
Carry water and a bowl for them as well as you. Streams can't be relied on in summer, and some upland sections have no drinkable water for hours.
Your dog's welfare, behaviour and compliance with local access rules remain your responsibility throughout the trip, as set out in our Booking Conditions.
Trails that work with a dog
Every trail is walked and re-walked before we open it. We'd rather do four brilliantly than forty badly.
Booking nowScotland
137 km · 4–6 days
Beach after beach, level walking, and fishing villages where dogs sit under the table at teatime. Sea to swim in at the end of every stage.
Booking nowScotland
127 km · 3 days
Towpath and forest track most of the way — kind underfoot, gate rather than stile, and Loch Ness alongside you for two days.
Booking nowScotland
126 km · 3 days
Old railway lines, drove roads and lochside forest between Highland Perthshire villages. Wide, soft tracks and easy water stops.
Booking nowScotland
80 km · 2 days
The best of the West Highland Way in a long weekend — a first trip to see how your dog takes to a walking holiday.
Booking nowScotland → England
100 km · 2–3 days
Border country to the Northumberland coast. Short, manageable stages and a finish on the sands at Lindisfarne.
Booking nowNewcastle → Solway Firth
135 km · 6–8 days
Coast to coast on gates and farm tracks with pubs in every village. Sheep country, so it's a lead-on week — easy walking otherwise.
Booking nowIlkley → Bowness-on-Windermere
130 km · 5–8 days
Riverside miles up the Wharfe and down the Dee. Water the whole way, gentle gradients, and Dales inns used to walkers and their dogs.
Booking nowUlverston → Carlisle
116 km · 5–7 days
Through the middle of the Lakes on valley paths rather than ridges — big days without scrambling, and lakes to swim in each afternoon.
Booking nowWinchester → Eastbourne
162 km · 4–8 days
Chalk ridge walking on wide, dry tracks with gates rather than stiles. Bring water — the tops are open and there's little shade.
Booking nowWessex Downs → Chilterns
139 km · 6–8 days
Britain's oldest road: broad byways and beech woods, quiet enough to walk much of it off the lead outside lambing season.
Where you'll walk
Lines follow each trail's waypoints — live trail pages draw the full GPX route. Tap a line to see the trail.
How it works
Named on the trip
You tell us their name, breed and age at checkout, and that's how we refer to them from then on — in your confirmation, in the notes we send your accommodation, in your trail book. The £35 per dog per night fee covers their stay and any dog charges, so there's nothing extra to pay when you arrive.
Accommodation
Every stay on a dog trip is somewhere we know is pleased to see dogs — the sort of place that keeps a towel by the door and knows where the water bowl lives. No arriving to discover the policy changed, no surcharge sprung at check-in.
Day lengths
Breed and age change what a fair day looks like — a four-year-old pointer and a ten-year-old cavalier want very different weeks. The planner suggests a distance range for your dog. It's a guide: you know them, so tell us if they'd do more.
Luggage transfer
Dog food, bed, towels, toys — the bulky kit that makes a week away possible. Pack it with your luggage and it moves from stay to stay with your bags, so you're not carrying it over the hills. You carry the day's essentials and nothing more.
