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National Parks Trail Challenge – Updates!

The Slow Ways National Parks Trail Challenge is underway! This summer we're trying to collectively walk every step of the 4,000km of our trail connecting Britain's National Park and National Park City. You can read...

Celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways Routes

Today we’re celebrating our community having shared over 10,000 Slow Ways routes with the release of some new and very special maps. We're so grateful to everyone who's been part of the Slow Ways...

“To return to a place” is decolonising work in practice

Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent artistic 'walkshop' in Ecclesall Wood helped forge an embodied connection with nature at a mycorrhizal level resulting in a sensory woodland exhibition

“Blisters the size of cats”: a zine on walking from Leeds to Hull

A group of friends walk from Leeds to Hull and capture their experiences through the co-creation of a zine, a small imaginative D.I.Y publication

How does it feel to walk blind?

Gill has been blind since a car accident in her teens. Join her on a walk through West Norfolk in this beautiful film

A tale of two cities: wealth gap neighbourhoods

What is going on when the people at one end of a single route live ten years longer than the people at the other end? Heiba Lamara looks at five Slow Ways that pass...

Our Carlisle to Newcastle walk immortalised in silver talisman rings

What to expect when blazing a new coast-to-coast trail across the North (bog soup!), and how we told the tale in film and silver

I walked through the Cambrian Mountains in the footsteps of a Victorian snob

Author and 'extreme rambler' Ursula Martin compares her walk to George Borrow's 170 years ago. Will she be rude about redheads too?