Distance
Plan for the youngest
10 – 15 km is the family sweet spot. It sounds short; it isn't when there's a beach halfway. Ask us for a short-cut option on any stage — most trails have a taxi-friendly midpoint.
Who's coming · Family
A long walk
with the kids.
Short stages, beaches and Roman forts, a pub garden for lunch, and beds in towns big enough to have an ice cream at the end of every day.
Walking as a family
The trick is picking
a trail the kids
actually like.
Family long-distance walking is a genuinely good holiday, and it's much easier than it looks. The only trick — the whole trick — is picking a trail where the days are short enough, the ground is easy enough, and there's something at the end of the afternoon that isn't just another field.
The trails on this page are all coastal, riverside or historic — beaches, Roman forts, viaducts, seals, villages with ice cream. Day lengths are 10 – 18 km with the option to shorten further, waymarking is bulletproof, and every overnight is in a town or village with real food and real beds.
We handle the bookings, we move the bags, and we build the day lengths around the youngest walker. Ages roughly seven and up manage these trips well; younger with a short-cut day here and there. Ask us for a family variant on any of them.
Trails for families
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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 nowScotland
Fife Coastal Path
137 km · 4–6 days
Beaches, harbours, seals off the rocks and fish and chips in every village. The gentlest of our long walks — a natural first family week.
Book nowEngland
Hadrian's Wall Path
135 km · 6–8 days
A Roman fort every afternoon and the wall itself for ninety miles — one of the very best long walks to do with children old enough to enjoy the history.
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Dales Way South
65 km · 2–3 days
A long weekend up Wharfedale — flat riverside paths, stepping stones, and a train home from Ribblehead station under the great viaduct.
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Cumbria Way Experience
70 km · 3–4 days
The best of the Lake District in a long weekend — Coniston, Great Langdale and Borrowdale — with cake stops and paddling spots along the way.
Book nowWales
Anglesey Coastal Path
200 km · 9–12 days
A full loop of Ynys Môn with hidden coves and rock-pool beaches. Split into short family stages, or pick a favourite few days as a highlight trip.
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South Downs Way Experience
54 km · 2–3 days
A weekend on the chalk ridge — Ditchling Beacon to Eastbourne across the Seven Sisters cliffs. Big views, kite-flying wind and a beach finish.
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Cotswold Way
164 km · 7–10 days
Honey-stone villages every few miles, pub gardens for lunch, and short escarpment days that suit family pacing. Pick a section or walk the lot.
Book nowMallorca, Spain
GR221 Experience
53 km · 3–4 days
A warm long weekend in Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana. Village hotels, orange trees, and a swim in the Med at the end of most days.
Trails that work with kids
Coastal, historic,
never too far
between beds.
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How to walk one as a family
Little rules that
keep the whole
week fun.
Snacks
One more than you think
Nothing derails a walking day faster than a hungry seven-year-old. Second breakfast, morning break, lunch, cake stop, ice cream. Every trail in this list is planned around that rhythm.
Kit
Waterproofs that actually fit
Adult jackets on kids don't work. A proper waterproof jacket and over-trousers each, sized this year — plus a spare fleece in a dry bag. That's most of the misery gone.
Beds
Family rooms, not bunkhouses
We book you into small hotels and inns that have proper family rooms — two, three or four beds, en-suite, cooked breakfast. Not hostels, unless you specifically ask.
From the journal
Notes for family walkers.
Fife Coastal Path
Finding quiet in the East Neuk
A slow afternoon between Elie and Crail, where the wind drops and the coastline lets you catch up with yourself.
12 May 20267 min read
Fife Coastal Path
Why we walk in shoulder season
May and September are the honest months on the Scottish coast. Fewer people, better light, and the weather you were probably going to get anyway.
2 April 20265 min read