Join our Festival of Walking
13th September - 13th October 2024
Enjoy a month of walking from over 50 YHA hostels across England and Wales to boost your health and wellbeing, learn new walking skills, and connect with nature and the outdoors.
- Free-to-join programme of guided social walks for all abilities
- 20% off stays at over 50 YHA hostels
- 180 circular walking routes you can use to plan a self-guided walk
More details coming soon.
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Ways to get out and explore
Plan a self-guided walk
Download free maps and route instructions for walks across England and Wales. All our self-guided walks start and end at a YHA hostel.
Visit one of our hostels
YHA hostels are ready to welcome tentative trekkers and hardened hikers all year round. Where will you go?
Explore accessible routes
Accessible means different things to different people. We have identified a range of accessible routes from and near our hostels.
Prepare for your walk
Want to understand more about our maps or develop your walking skills?
We've created some useful guides to help you prepare for your chosen walk.
Festival partners
British Mountaineering Council
Cotswold Outdoor
Ordnance Survey
The Ramblers
Sport England
Outdoor Citizens opportunities
Thanks to support from The Pilgrim Trust, Cotswold Outdoor and Sport England, over 30 bursary funded walks were organised by members of our Outdoor Citizens community. Our festival partners support us so that we can support more outdoor groups working to break down barriers to the outdoors through this project.