Pace
15 – 22 km a day
The classic week-long stage length. Enough to feel like you've moved, short enough that you're never chasing daylight into the last accommodation.
Duration · A week
One trail,
one week,
bag moved daily.
The sweet spot of long-distance walking. Six or seven days on one trail — long enough for the head to clear and the legs to settle, short enough to book with a normal amount of annual leave.
The classic week
A week is the length
a long walk was
meant to be.
By day three you stop looking at your watch. By day five you're a walker, not somebody on holiday. That's the week-long trip in a nutshell — long enough for the format to actually work, short enough to fit around the rest of your life.
Every trail on this page is the classic one-week self-guided long walk. Six or seven days, five to seven overnights, bag moved from bed to bed each morning, daily notes in your pocket. Start on a Saturday, finish the following Friday or Saturday, home in time for Sunday lunch.
Trails to walk in a week
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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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Fife Coastal Path
137 km · 4–6 days
The gentlest of our long walks. Almost no ascent, a village at the end of every stage, seafood pubs the whole way.
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West Highland Way
154 km · 6–8 days
The classic Scottish long walk. Loch Lomond, Rannoch Moor, Glen Coe — a hard week you'll talk about for years.
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Great Glen Way
127 km · 5–7 days
Flat towpaths beside Loch Ness or a higher ridge line above it. Choose your own difficulty over six easy days.
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Rob Roy Way
126 km · 5–7 days
The quietest of the Scottish classics. Old drove roads, loch shores and small hotels — a proper reset week.
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Cotswold Way
164 km · 7–10 days
The Cotswold escarpment end to end. Honey-stone villages, beech hangers, and the long view over the Severn.
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Hadrian's Wall Path
135 km · 6–8 days
The northern edge of the Roman Empire, coast to coast. Milecastles, whin sill crags, and the wall for ninety miles.
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Dales Way
130 km · 5–8 days
Yorkshire Dales into the Lake District along river valleys — the archetypal English week on the trail.
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Cumbria Way
116 km · 5–7 days
The Lake District south to north. Coniston, Langdale, Borrowdale, Skiddaw — the fells at their most concentrated.
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The Ridgeway
139 km · 6–8 days
Britain's oldest road. Five thousand years of feet on chalk downland, Iron Age hillforts and long southern skies.
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South Downs Way
162 km · 4–8 days
100 miles of chalk ridge from Winchester Cathedral to the Seven Sisters — one of the best first weeks anywhere.
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GR221 Dry Stone Route
138 km · 6–8 days
The Serra de Tramuntana end to end. Mule paths, Moorish terraces, and mountain refuges above the Mediterranean.
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Camí de Cavalls
184 km · 7–8 days
A full loop of Menorca's coast — turquoise coves, prehistoric sites and whitewashed fishing villages.
Where to spend a week
One trail,
one week,
one country.
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Making the week work
The bits that
separate a good week
from a great one.
Rest day
Consider a mid-week zero
A day off in the right village — a boat trip, a distillery, a long lunch — turns a good week into a great one. We can build one into any of these trails.
Feet
Same boots, same socks
A week is where new kit fails. Wear your boots and your socks on three long days at home first. Leukotape on the arch of each foot from day one.
Bags
Bag transfer every morning
Standard on every itinerary. Your main luggage moves from bed to bed each morning; you walk with a 20-litre daypack.
From the journal
Notes for a week on the trail.
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
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