Festival of Winter Walks
26 December 2007 - 2 January 2008

The Festival of Winter Walks is the Ramblers’ Association’s annual festival of walks open to everyone, with many hundreds of walks happening across England, Scotland and Wales.

While promising a healthy alternative to yet another mince pie over the festive period, our family and health walks also offer an opportunity to kick-start a programme of exercise to restore health and vitality in the New Year.

With routes ranging from three to ten miles, all with experienced walk leaders, it is easy to make regular walking a New Year resolution.

Everyone is welcome and you do not have to be a member of the Ramblers to take part. And if you decide to join after the festival walk, you can take advantage of a 20% discount so don't forget to ask a walk leader for a joining form.

Festival walks in your area

Enter the name of a city, town or village, a postcode
or a grid reference (eg 'NY3630').

Search using our map of festival walks

Or see the full list of walks

Further information

For local Ramblers walks please visit the Group Walks Finder.

• Walking events
• Walking for everyone

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Celebrities Top Winter Walks

• Bionic Woman, Michelle Ryan, comments that her ideal walk is in: “A local meadow, with my family and chocolate labrador, Buddy”

• Alan Titchmarsh would prefer a “walk up on Tennyson Down on the Isle of Wight with my wife and daughters – fab views and a breeze to blow the cobwebs away.”

• Couch potato Terry Wogan (Radio 2) will be supporting the festival….from the comfort of his armchair this Boxing Day, with his favourite walk: “Between the sitting room and the dining room.” When pressed, he replied that his favourite part of the ‘great outdoors’ is “Getting home to a roaring fire”.

• Patrick Stewart (Star Trek, Next Generation) can be found walking the Yorkshire Dales’ 3 Peaks and Louise Goodman (Formula 1) strolling the Millenium Trail in Hampshire, this Boxing Day.

• Ramblers’ Association Vice President, Janet Street Porter, likes a walk with a “clear blue sky” and “snow underfoot” around the reservoirs and quarries of Upper Nidderdale, Yorkshire. She comments: “Having walked off enough calories, I can go home and continue my Christmas feasting!”