About Explore the Horizon

Explore the Horizon is an independent editorial site about UK National Trails and long-distance walking. It is not a tour operator, luggage-transfer firm, walking holiday company or official trail partnership.

The original domain was registered in 2023 and once carried a general travel blog. It later pointed at a broken parking server and returned a Cloudflare 525 error. This site is a new build, published on 14 November 2026, with a narrower brief: walking routes that are designated and waymarked as National Trails, plus the official access and safety advice that supports a first multi-day walk.

Guides are researched from official pages — mainly GOV.UK guidance from Natural England and Natural Resources Wales, the Countryside Code, rights of way pages, AdventureSmart and the Scottish Outdoor Access Code. Each guide names the pages that were opened and the date they were checked. Where official sources disagree, the guide says so instead of picking a number quietly.

Distances, walking times and prices are taken from official pages, not invented, and the guides do not present first-person accounts of walking a whole trail. If a figure is not on an official page opened for the guide, it is not printed here.

Questions or corrections: hello@explorethehorizon.co.uk.