Routes

Find the perfect peak to climb with your kids in this collection of the UK's best mini mountains.

Follow Trail magazine's step-by-step scrambling guide up the iconic Eastern Summit of Suilven in the North West Highlands.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

On Tryfan, a mountain awash with fab Grade 1 scrambles, this gully combo often goes unnoticed. Well, notice it now – it’s a corker.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

Perhaps the most fun a grown-up can have with clothes on, this Lake District ghyll scramble is best saved for a sunny day because – spoiler alert – you’re going to get wet.

One of the most distinctive mountain ranges in Britain is also home to one of our greatest hillwalks. Join us for a Brecon Beacons masterpiece.

Time to leave behind the more celebrated peaks of the northern Highlands and tackle some shapely, silent summits to the south.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

An easy-going route that ascends over 400m onto the shoulder of the highest ground in England. Everything about Cockly Pike Ridge makes the epic walk-in worth it.

This jagged Lakeland ridge is full of Alpine character. It should be high on the bucket list of anyone who loves airy scrambles and Lake District scenery in equal measure.

The Trail 100 is a hand-picked collection of the 100 peaks every hillwalker...

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

Tucked away around the side of the Carneddau, the Llech Ddu Spur is a classic and spectacularly situated summer scramble. And in winter, it’s even better...

Sandwiched between a trio of Lakeland icons, this sweeping mountain circuit is one of the finest hillwalks in northern England.

Glen Nevis is home to some famous peaks – including one of the UK’s iconic big three – but shy Stob Ban offers a winter outing to rival its noisy neighbours.

This rocky tour of Welsh icons Tryfan and Glyder Fach is right up there with the most exciting and fun mountain routes Britain has to offer.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

Tucked away at the back of Bleaklow where nobody thinks to look, the cascades of Wildboar Clough combine to create one of the best scrambling outings in the Peak District.

Here’s how to stitch together Lakeland’s two most recognisable peaks into what could well be the best mountain route in England.

Here you’ll find all the routes featured in the most recent issue of Trail magazine. You can view the routes on the OS Maps website and, if you’re an OS Maps Premium subscriber, overlay them on 1:25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger leisure mapping.

It may be a relative tiddler, but a summit ridge traverse of this Highland classic is a proper mountain outing to rival almost any.

Narrow knife edges, scrambly towers, epic exposure and phenomenal views, the Forcan Ridge is a Scottish mountain classic with ‘must do’ written all over it.

A good walk in the Lake District always ends with a good pub, right? So if you're after some great food to round off your day in the fells, here’s our top pick of foodie pubs, inns and restaurants where you can also stay the night, and they won’t mind if you stagger in with muddy boots.