Join us over ten glorious days of midsummer and let’s see how many Slow Ways we can check together
Calling everyone who loves walking, running and wheeling!
We are busy creating a hugely ambitious national walking network that joins up every town and city in Great Britain.
If this sounds good to you, please accept our invitation to be part of our Great Summer Waycheck! We’d love your company!
The Waycheck is our big annual midsummer mission to collectively walk, run, wheel and review as many Slow Ways routes as we can. Last year was FUN. Over the ten glorious days of midsummer, we collectively reviewed hundreds of routes, in groups, in ones and twos, and all over the country. So we’re doing it again! Please put these dates in your diary:
Friday 14th to Sunday 23rd of June
It could be your chance to combine with a holiday and do some walks in a new part of the country, try our routing or journey planner to make yourself a bespoke multi-day trail, or re-check your old favourites and make sure they still get through.
We want to make sure Slow Ways across Great Britain are open and ready to be enjoyed… and we’re looking for thousands of people to join up and check part of the country.
New to Slow Ways or need a refresher before the Waycheck? Join a welcome talk on the 22nd of May (11am-12pm) or the 11th of June (1-2pm), ask any questions you have, and let us help you get started.
It’s a mission that matters
You’ll be helping to create a network not just for walking and wheeling, but for joy, health, love, ideas, creativity, relationships, communities, tackling the climate crisis, connecting to nature and more.
It’ll be fun too. Some people will walk multiple routes on their own, others will form teams to check all of their town’s routes in a single day before having a celebratory get-together.
To be part of the Slow Ways Summer Waycheck, simply travel and check as many Slow Ways as you can between June 14th and 23rd. We’ll have daily check-ins, a tracker for our collective distance, and we’ll broadcast the progress on social media.
What you can do
- Join the Big Slow Ways 2024 Challenge too, and gather really cool pin badges as you pass milestones!
- Share your plans and journeys with us on social media… #SlowWays
- Tell us your plans in the comments on this page
- Sign-up to the newsletter to stay updated
Not sure where to walk? Check out our network progress map here to see how the network is progressing in your area. All of those purple routes and triple-approved, or more! And every blue line has been walked and reviewed once or twice. Incredible progress – but we still need more! Help us out in the glorious long days of midsummer, and let’s purple the map a bit more!
You can take part on your own, in a group, with an organisation, as a community or as part of a guided walk. You can walk, run, wheel, bimble or yomp – it all counts.
Up for it? Tell us who you are and what you’ve got planned by commenting on this page!
