As a member of the Ramblers, you can join walks organised by any of the Ramblers groups across the country. You can find led walks on the Walk Finder on the national Ramblers website. The Walk Finder also includes lots of routes that you can walk yourself.
Contact details for other local Ramblers Groups are on Avon Ramblers website. Click to see Avon Area Led Walks
The Wessex Wanderers arrange a programme of rail-based walks.
Bristol Ramblers have developed a number of routes:
- the Bristol Triangular City Walk, a way-marked 18 mile walk using parks and green spaces in the city. The walk can easily be broken into bite-sized chunks using public transport;
- the South Bristol Circular Walk, a way-marked 23 mile walk around the edge of the city;
- the Alan Burton Memorial Walk, a way-marked 10 mile walk in the north of the city.
There are also multi-day routes such as:
- the Bristol-Brecon walk;
- the Greater Avon Valley Way;
- the Samaritans Way SW.
If you have walked any of these walks please let us know how you found them. Click to contact us
The Bristol Ring is a walk around Bristol developed jointly by Bristol City Council and Go Jauntly
You can download an app to guide you on the walk.
In April 2026 the Bristol Urban Nature map was issued. This shows green spaces and footpaths in and around the city
There are literally thousands of route descriptions available in walking guides, maps and websites. We have listed the main ones we use in our links page.
You can also, of course, plan your own walks. There are useful online route planning tools such as here where you can plot your route and check distance and ascent/descent. Click for a guide to this tool. Another route planning tool.
Click to find map numbers, post code and latitude and longitude for a particular grid reference
Ramblers Wellbeing Walks
Ramblers Wellbeing Walks make it easier to start walking and stay active.
Slow Ways
The national Slow Ways project aims to identify walking routes linking populations in cities, towns and villages. Visit the Slow Ways website at beta.slowways.org
Suggested and mapped by volunteers, there are currently over 7,000 Slow Ways routes to click on and explore. Initially many of these routes were added by tracking routes on OS maps. The challenge now is to walk, review and verify them all - checking over 100,000km of routes - to make sure they work ‘on the ground’. The aim is to have a nationwide walking network of trusted routes. The map of routes shows all the routes. Those coloured violet have been reviewed by at least three people. Those coloured green still need to be verified. There are still some in the Bristol area that need to be verified.
Last year Slow Ways successfully launched the experimental Make Ways pilot. Contributors can highlight good ways, bad ways and wishes for new ways across the country. Details of how you can help.
