All walking routes
Every published route, newest first, with the terrain, length and climb for each. Routes are released a few at a time; the ones not yet published are not listed here.
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Shinjuku Gyoen Lawn Loop
Shinjuku Gyoen, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Shinjuku Gyoen is 58 hectares in the middle of the densest part of Tokyo, and the loop around the lawns and ponds is about 3.5 km. Start at the Shinju…
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Time
- 70 min
- Climb
- 10 m
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12
Yakushima Moss Corridor — Arakawa Headwater Trail
Arakawa trailhead, Yakushima, Kagoshima, Japan
Start early. The trailhead fills by eight in the morning, and the first kilometre is shared with everyone who arrived on the same bus. Walk that stret…
- Distance
- 3.1 km
- Time
- 95 min
- Climb
- 180 m
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11
Edinburgh Old Town — Closes and the Castle Descent
Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Edinburgh's Old Town sits on a ridge running from the castle down to Holyrood, with the Royal Mile along its spine and around seventy closes — narrow …
- Distance
- 3 km
- Time
- 75 min
- Climb
- 85 m
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10
Copenhagen Harbour — Islands Brygge to Kalvebod Bølge
Copenhagen Harbour, Denmark
This route runs about 3.9 km along the inner harbour from the Islands Brygge baths to the Kalvebod Bølge bridge and back along the opposite quay. Cope…
- Distance
- 3.9 km
- Time
- 80 min
- Climb
- 10 m
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9
Central Park Ramble — Woodland Tangle
The Ramble, Central Park, New York City, United States
The Ramble is 15 hectares of deliberately tangled woodland inside Central Park, with about 3 km of paths, none of which run in a straight line. Freder…
- Distance
- 3.3 km
- Time
- 75 min
- Climb
- 15 m
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8
Lisbon Alfama — Escadinhas to Miradouro
Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal
Alfama is the oldest surviving quarter of Lisbon, built on the slope between the castle and the river. It survived the 1755 earthquake because it sits…
- Distance
- 2.4 km
- Time
- 80 min
- Climb
- 95 m
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7
Zurichsee Promenade — Quaibrücke to Tiefenbrunnen
Lake Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
The Quaibrücke to Tiefenbrunnen promenade is about 4.4 km along the eastern shore of the lake, flat apart from a gentle rise at the Zürichhorn headlan…
- Distance
- 4.4 km
- Time
- 85 min
- Climb
- 18 m
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6
Tiergarten Diagonal — Spree to Landwehrkanal
Tiergarten, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Start at the Spree end and walk south-east along the main diagonal. The first thing to accept is that this will not be quiet. Tiergarten has a motorwa…
- Distance
- 5.2 km
- Time
- 90 min
- Climb
- 12 m
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5
Valletta — Collachio Steps to Hastings Garden
Valletta, Malta
Valletta was built from scratch by the Knights of St John after the 1565 siege, on a peninsula with a ridge down the middle and steep ground falling a…
- Distance
- 2.1 km
- Time
- 70 min
- Climb
- 80 m
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4
Yanaka Backstreets — Cemetery Terrace to SCAI the Bathhouse
Yanaka, Taito Ward, Tokyo, Japan
Yanaka is a low-rise neighbourhood on a terrace above the Tokyo plain, and its lanes survived both the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 bombing. That is r…
- Distance
- 2.7 km
- Time
- 75 min
- Climb
- 25 m
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3
Lake Bled Shoreline Path
Lake Bled, Gorenjska, Slovenia
The lakeside path runs about 3.8 km around the water, with a short climb behind the castle at the north end. Start from the rowing centre on the weste…
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Time
- 90 min
- Climb
- 40 m
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2
Kyoto Imperial Park Gravel Circuit
Kyoto Gyoen, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan
Enter from the north gate at Karasuma and go anticlockwise. In the early morning the circuit is used by runners going the other way, and walking again…
- Distance
- 4 km
- Time
- 85 min
- Climb
- 8 m
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1
Nikko Cedar Avenue — Imaichi Segment
Nikko Kaido, Imaichi, Tochigi, Japan
Park at the Imaichi end and walk in rather than starting under the densest trees. The first three minutes are for the ordinary business of arriving: f…
- Distance
- 2.6 km
- Time
- 65 min
- Climb
- 22 m
Numbers are estimates for the pace named above; the ground decides the rest.