As summer turns to autumn and accessible tracks for walking and cycling shift to shades of orange and red, now’s the time to staycation in the Great Scottish Outdoors. A haven of hundreds of hikes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zimbabwean-born adventurer Nick Ray, 61, has completed a 1,600km walk between the four cardinal corners of Scotland. Ray arrived ...

A hiking trip in Scotland, however, requires a minor linguistic adjustment, although English is the official language. Lakes are quite famously referred to as lochs, valleys as glens, and wide valleys ...

Scotland has more than two dozen official long-distance trails through moors, peat bogs and forests. We chose one of the most popular, the West Highland Way. As first-time walkers in Scotland, my ...

Graeme, the duty manager at the YHA hostel in Crianlarich, raises an eyebrow as I dump my dripping pack by the door. It’s been dark for several hours already, it’s raining heavily, and he clearly wasn ...

Ridge walking is surging in popularity across the UK, with searches for ridge walks rising by 180 per cent in the past year. This form of hiking, which follows the crest or spine of a mountain or hill ...

I wasn’t a serious hiker until, 20 years ago in my late 30s, I moved with my family to Connecticut and began to discover our Fairfield and Litchfield County trails. Hikes all over New England and New ...

Walking Scotland have launched a local consultation to better understand the walking and wheeling habits of residents in Calderwood, St Leonards and wider eastern East Kilbride. The charity-led ...