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 more about the trail in this kick-off post and in this article on the Campaign for National Parks website.
It’s a great challenge that will help develop a trail people will be able to enjoy for years to come. We’d love for you to join in!
Over 200 people have signed up to take part and walk one or more of the 277 legs within this incredible route, with more getting involved organically.
So far as part of the challenge, between June 1 and August 7th 2025 we’ve:
- reviewed 142 of 277 routes
- shared 1,865.3km/1,159.1 miles of reviews
- reviewed 51% of the routes
Our all-time totals are even greater. We’ve:
- reviewed 235 of 277 routes
- shared 3,183km / 1,977 miles of reviews
- reviewed 84% of the routes
- verified 53% of the routes
The following map shows the whole trail. The purple routes are triple-checked and verified, while the green routes still need more reviews.
This map shows a manual snapshot of all routes reviewed as part of the challenge so far. The trail is clearly coming together!
We’d love your help to get the first version of the trail checked and verified!
Not yet signed up? There’s still time to choose a route and walk it before the end of August – you can sign up here or just crack-on in your own time. Not everyone is telling us where they are walking. That’s totally fine, but doing so will help us to coordinate efforts.
We’d love to see photos from your walks. Please tag us on social media and use the hashtags #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail.
Let’s see what we can achieve together!
