Rest days
Every seven days, take one
The single biggest predictor of finishing a long trail is planning rest days in. One in seven is the rule — a proper day off, in a village big enough to sit down and eat properly.
Duration · Epic
The trails you
build a fortnight
— or a summer —
around.
The great long crossings. Ten days at the shortest, three weeks or more at the longest, and every one of them the kind of trip you plan a year ahead and remember for the rest of your life.
The long ones
Trails big enough
to change how
you think about time.
There's a category of trail where the length is the point. Two weeks on the Coast to Coast. Three weeks on the Pennine Way. A full summer on the GR10. The trip stops being a holiday somewhere around day nine and becomes something else — a way of living for a while.
Everything on this page is that scale of walk. We book the accommodation, move the bags, plan rest days into the middle, and — if you want to walk it in sections over several years — build the itinerary that way instead. Whichever way you take them on, these are the trails you'll talk about for the rest of your life.
The great long trails
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Every trail is walked and re-walked before we open it. We'd rather do four brilliantly than forty badly.
Book nowEngland
Coast to Coast
309 km · 12–16 days
Wainwright's line across northern England — Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors. The great English walk.
Book nowEngland
Pennine Way
414 km · 14–22 days
England's oldest National Trail — 268 miles up the spine of the country from Edale to Kirk Yetholm.
Book nowWales
Anglesey Coastal Path
200 km · 9–12 days
A full loop of Ynys Môn with Snowdonia rising across the Menai Strait — sea cliffs, hidden coves and Neolithic burial chambers.
Book nowPortugal
Fisherman's Trail
210 km · 8–12 days
Portugal's Rota Vicentina along the wild south-west Atlantic — cliffs, empty beaches and whitewashed fishing villages.
Book nowWales
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
300 km · 12–15 days
186 miles of the finest coast path in Britain — Amroth to St Dogmaels around the whole of Pembrokeshire.
Book nowEngland
South West Coast Path
1014 km · 45–60 days
630 miles from Minehead to Poole — Britain's longest National Trail, walked in sections or all in one very long summer.
Book nowFrance
GR10 — the full traverse
866 km · 45–55 days
The Pyrenees end to end — Atlantic to Mediterranean across France, in one summer or in eight bookable sections.
The long ones
Trails to build
a fortnight, or
a summer, around.
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How to walk a long one
The rules are
different past
day ten.
In sections
You don't have to do it in one
Every trail on this page can be walked in bookable sections over several years. Coast to Coast in three long weekends. The GR10 in eight sections. The Pennine Way in three. Same planning, same bag transfer, spread out.
Feet
Two pairs, alternated
On a trail longer than two weeks, take two pairs of walking shoes or boots and swap them day to day. It sounds indulgent; it stops the small nagging issues from becoming trip-ending ones.
The trip
One booking, one contact
We book every night's accommodation, every bag transfer, every train link. One itinerary, one point of contact, one number to call if the weather turns and you need to change the plan.
From the journal
Notes for the long trails.
Pennine Way (Winter Spine Race)
Just Keep Moving North
Mel Sykes ran 268 miles along the Pennine Way in January. She ran mostly in the dark, through deep snow, hallucinating tigers. Eighteen months earlier she'd had brain surgery. At Hadrian's Wall, on day three, the sun came out and she knew she was going to finish.
15 May 20266 min read
South West Coast Path
The One Thing I Have
Morgan De Silva walked sections of the South West Coast Path when his mental health needed it most — and found, somewhere near Sidmouth, the most remote place he'd encountered anywhere in the UK.
17 April 20266 min read
Pembrokeshire Coast Path
Keep the Sea on Your Left
Sophie McCarthy walked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path solo. 186 miles, mostly camping, carrying everything on her back. She had one very dramatic fall, told a badger to “go away”, and sat in a public toilet for sixty pence just to get out of the rain. And guess what - she'd do it again in a heartbeat.
26 March 20267 min read