Slow Ways
Making routes
Taking Slow Ways to the next level
On our fifth anniversary, here's founder and CEO Dan Raven-Ellison on why it's time to step up and connect millions more people and places
Tales from a Slow Way
One tender song combatting social isolation in “the sacred heart of Birmingham”
Diverse members of the South Birmingham community come together to create a song, My Backyard, inspired by interviews and walks through local green spaces
Art
Bloom-scrolling! I work for a botanical charity, and here is every species I saw on an 81-mile Slow Ways trip
If you don't know what there is, how can you protect it? Sarah Woods guides us through a walk in flowers
I walked the 81 miles from Sanquhar to Carlisle in the middle of July – the perfect season...
Article
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...
Trails
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
Article
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?
Nature
“For people of colour, our migration is often met with suspicion”
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent 'walkshop' along the Rivelin Valley Trail helped articulate an embodied response to liberation
Journeys
“Wild like the end of the world, or the start of something”
One of us is going through a bad situation. After we’d raked through the hows and whens and whys, I asked what she was going to do now. “I want to walk. I just want to walk myself through it.”