Edinburgh

Hiking routes around Edinburgh

34 waymarked hiking routes run within 19 km of Edinburgh: 2 international, 4 national, 4 regional and 24 local.

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Around Edinburgh

6 national and international routes pass within 19 km, among them Fife Coastal Path (187 km) and Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath (102 km). John Muir Way passes through Edinburgh: 14 sections with 214 km mapped in all, 55 km of them within 19 km. European long distance path E2 north passes through Edinburgh: 37 sections with 680 km mapped in all, 51 km of them within 19 km. Core Paths has more of its length here than any other route: 97 km within 19 km. Most of the 24 local routes are short walks: 17 of them are under 10 km. Operators named on the routes listed here include ERA-FERP-EWV, Fife Coast and Countryside Trust and Friends of the Pentlands.

The routes with most of their length within 19 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 19 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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