Monmouthshire Walking Festival 2010

Welcome to the first Monmouthshire Walking Festival

Walking Festival
22 October - 31 October 2010
First Steps...that's what Monmouthshire's first countryside Walking Festival are. Details of Monmouthshire's first full-length walking festival have been released and will continue to be updated, so find updates on our website.

The county's long-distance footpaths, including Offa's Dyke Path and the Wye Valley Walk will form a central part of the ten-day festival, which takes place from 22nd-31st Oct 2010, with six day-long hikes following Monmouthshire's boundary from Magor in the south to Llanthony in the north.

The county's perimeter displays an amazing breadth of landscape, from the coastal flats of the Severn Estuary to the Wye Valley Gorge; across the hills to the Black Mountains, and through the pastoral surroundings of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

Other highlights will include the Usk Valley Walk (in three stages) and the two stage Three Castles Walk, which explores the three border castles of Grosmont, Skenfrith and White Castle, as well as lesser known routes around Wentwood and The Hendre.

Around thirty walks all over Monmouthshire are expected to be offered, with all ages and abilities catered for, whilst suggestions for evening entertainment will also be provided to walkers staying overnight.

In a further bid to emphasise the beauty of Monmouthshire's green countryside, festival organisers will be encouraging walkers to leave their cars at home and to arrive by public transport. Pick ups and luggage transfers will be available for staying visitors who arrive and depart by train, whilst the walks programme will be geographically arranged so that those visitors can take full advantage of the range of walks available.