The tracker
Pocket-sized, all week
A small GPS unit — about the size of a matchbox — that lives in the top of your pack. Charge it once at the start; it lasts the trip. It pings your position every few minutes over the mobile network.
Adventure · Solo-Friendly
Walk it on your own.
Never truly alone.
A short-list of trails we're happy sending solo walkers on — with our live tracking service in the background so somebody is always keeping an eye on where you are.
Why we track you
Somebody is
watching the dot
move.
Walking a long trail on your own is one of the best things you can do. The days are quieter, the evenings are your own, and the head clears in a way it just doesn't when you're travelling with somebody else. It's also the bit that puts a lot of first-timers off — the not-knowing-what-happens-if.
Every solo booking on this list comes with our live tracking service. You carry a small GPS tracker that pings your position every few minutes for the whole trip. We watch it from the office. If you stop moving where you shouldn't be stopped — off-route, off-schedule, in the wrong weather — we notice, and we get on the phone. If everything is fine, you never hear from us. That's the point.
One of our customers walked the Coast to Coast on her own this year and told us afterwards that the biggest thing wasn't the tracker itself — it was knowing somebody was looking out for her while she was away, on a trail she'd never walked before. That's the shape of the service. Not a safety net you have to think about, just one that's there.
Every trail on this page is one we're confident sending a solo walker on. Well-signed underfoot, sensible day lengths, accommodation in the right villages, and — if you want it — a tracker in your pack.
Solo-friendly 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.
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Coast to Coast
309 km · 12–16 days
Wainwright's line across northern England — Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors. The one our customer walked on her own this year.
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Dales Way
130 km · 5–8 days
River valleys the whole way from Ilkley to Windermere. Gentle, well-signed and full of pubs — an ideal first solo long walk.
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West Highland Way
154 km · 6–8 days
Britain's busiest long-distance path — which is exactly what makes it a good solo choice. You're never far from other walkers or a warm bar.
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Cotswold Way
164 km · 7–10 days
The escarpment end to end — honey-stone villages every few miles, a country pub for lunch, and beds in market towns each night.
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The Ridgeway
139 km · 6–8 days
Open chalk downland with a view for miles. Easy navigation, easy underfoot, and quiet enough for a proper reset week on your own.
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Great Glen Way
127 km · 5–7 days
Fort William to Inverness beside Loch Ness. Towpath-flat if you want it, higher line if you don't — either way, a sociable solo trip.
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Rob Roy Way
126 km · 5–7 days
The quietest of the Scottish classics. Drove roads, loch shores and small hotels — a solo walk with plenty of head-space.
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Cumbria Way
116 km · 5–7 days
The Lake District south to north through the valleys — the fells at their most concentrated, but on well-trodden paths between villages.
Where you can walk solo
Eight trails we're
happy sending you
on your own.
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Lines follow each trail's waypoints — live trail pages draw the full GPX route. Tap a line to see the trail.
How the tracking works
A quiet safety net,
on a trail you'll walk
at your own pace.
The watching
We keep an eye, you don't have to
The dot appears on our map in the office from the moment you set off in the morning to the moment you check in at night. If you stop moving where you shouldn't, or drift off route, we notice — and we call.
Sharing
Send the link home
You can share the live map with anyone — a partner, a parent, a friend. They see the same dot we do, updating through the day. It's the bit families tend to appreciate most.
If something goes wrong
A phone call, then a plan
The tracker has an SOS button, but most of the time it doesn't need one. We spot the anomaly, ring you, and — if you need it — talk to the accommodation, the taxi, or mountain rescue on your behalf. You keep walking, or you stop; whichever is right.
From the journal
Notes for solo walkers.
West Highland Way
Someone Has to Carry the Bottles Out
Richard Newsome has been looking after bothies on the West Highland Way for 12 years. This once meant carrying 42 glass bottles four and a half miles back to his car. He moved to Scotland because of the West Highland Way and has never once walked into a bothy and thought about quitting.
12 May 20266 min read
West Highland Way
He Couldn't Kneel on the Rocks
Sara and Marco walked the West Highland Way in June — their first long trail, seven days, almost nobody else around. On day two, by a quiet stretch of Loch Lomond, Marco said he couldn't really kneel on the rocks, and showed her the ring anyway.
12 May 20266 min read
Dales Way
Past the M6
Jessica Mather walked the Dales Way in four days last summer. She's still thinking about a man fishing in his eighties and a seventeen-year-old with a sketchbook.
1 May 20264 min read