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Hiking Trails and Trips in Ontario. Walking festivals Ireland. Tanya Sweeney – Published 26 April 2014 02:30 AM The Cavan Walking Festival (May 2-11) is a must-do for fans of themed walks, rambles and hikes.
Local guides bring their wealth of knowledge to the weekend, as participants choose from a number of different activities. There are night walks (including an atmospheric dusk walk in the Jampa Ling Buddhist Centre), nature walks and even treks with an archaeology theme. There is also a historical ramble around the grounds of the Castle Saunderson Estate (castlesaunderson.com) on the programme, while experienced walkers can tackle Cuilcagh Mountain or hike up Slieve Rushen. See thisiscavan.ie Elsewhere, set your compass north for the Dungloe Walking Weekend, (May 2-5) in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht. See dungloe.info Over in Galway, meanwhile, it's possible to tackle a mountain climb during the Leenane Mountain Walking Festival (May 2-4).
See leenanevillage.com/events See loophead.ie/ events See slievebloom.ie See trailkilkenny.ie. Travel to the Peak District for food, walks and great ales. Now is the right time to visit the Peak District, before the summer rush, to enjoy festivals and crowd-free hikes.
Ramble on Need to brush up on your map-reading skills before you stride out for the hills? Mark Reid, mountain leader and author of The Inn Way guidebooks, is offering bespoke map-reading weekends in and around the Peak District this spring and summer. Reid teaches the skills you need to plan and follow your own walks in the countryside. These include route planning and weather forecasting as well as map, compass and navigation skills. Reid says: ‘For me, knowing how to read a map and then using it to navigate is a key life skill. Tideswell Food Festival If there’s one thing better than a healthy hike, it’s the ale-soaked feast afterwards.
Why walk? Walking Tours and Trips. Hiking along a glacier in Patagonia, discovering secret side streets in a tiny French village, walking down a rain forest path to a Costa Rican waterfall ... some of the world's most memorable experiences can happen only on foot.
Walking is one of the purest pleasures of traveling, offering exercise, fresh air and a fresh perspective on the world. Urban or rural, easy or challenging, guided or independent -- somewhere out there is a walking tour to suit your interests and abilities. Sample tour notes. Quebec%20Itinerary%202014. How build walking holidays in rural. Shepherdswalks co.
Bringing the countryside to your classroom.
All our educational programmes are tailored to meet the individual needs of each school and year group that we visit. Shepherds Walks will take full responsibility for planning and delivering the programme. Please do contact us and we can discuss everything in more detail and show you some of the projects and activities we have done with schools. With all our educational work we first meet with the school and discuss your requirements. Ontario Trails Council. Towns and Villages with something special to offer walkers.
Walkable_communities_web1. Healthy U - How Walkable Communities are Created. Across Alberta and Canada, people are adding life to their communities by turning them into “walkable” communities.
This article addresses a wide range of topics, including: The more walkable a community is, the more likely that people will walk more often and experience improved health and wellness. After all, walking is good for you – it’s a natural, healthy, physical activity that everyone can enjoy! Walkable Communities Are Good to Go!
In a walkable community, it’s possible to walk safely and easily to places that are important in our daily lives, such as the grocery store, schools, workplaces and community services or facilities. Walk On walkability tool kit. Canada WALKS. Walkable cities planned for and by people: Jane’s Walk coming to a neighbourhood near you May 4th and 5th. M.good. When a city is more walkable—supporting pedestrians with narrower streets, wide sidewalks, and nearby recreational outlets—shops are frequented more often and do far better than those in less walkable areas.
A report issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that “businesses appear to do better in a walkable commercial areas than in areas attracting mainly drive-to patronage.” Collecting case studies from five cities across the United States—cities that have invested in public transportation or sawed off portions of street lanes for foot traffic—the report also discovered that “walkable retail areas have the potential to attract many people beyond the immediate walking radius.”
Those smaller, walkable centers often mean stronger small businesses, as well. Among the top 20 cities where small businesses saw the most growth in 2012, at least half feature significant pedestrian infrastructure. On average, Americans spend 25.5 minutes commuting one-way to work.