Hiking routes around Smethwick

No national or international trail comes within 15 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. Grand Union Canal Walk passes through Smethwick: 7 sections with 273 km mapped in all, 14 km of them within 15 km. Monarch's Way has more of its length here than any other route: 57 km within 15 km, of 920 km in all. Most of the 113 local routes are short walks: 108 of them are under 10 km. Operators named on the routes listed here include Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Heart of England Way Assosciation and The Monarch's Way Association.

• Monarch's WayRegional · MW57 km within 15 km · 920 km in allThe Monarch's Way Association
• North Worcestershire PathRegional32 km within 15 km · 58 km in all
• Black Country Canals: The Dudley & Stourbridge RingRegional · BCC29 km within 15 km · 55 km in allDudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Beacon WayRegional22 km within 15 km · Sandwell Park Farm, Sandwell Valley Country Park to Chasewater, BurntwoodWalsall Council;Heart of England Way Assosciation
• Birmingham Platinum Jubilee WalkwayLocal · PJW16 km within 15 km
• Grand Union Canal WalkRegional · 7 sections14 km within 15 km · 273 km in all
• Rail Trail: Olton > ShirleyLocal · rtOlt12 km within 15 km · Olton Train Station to Shirley Train Station
• Stourbridge Canal & Glass Quarter Heritage TrailLocal · SCGHT11 km within 15 km
• Walk Tipton Heritage TrailLocal · THT9.1 km within 15 km · Tipton Library, Stockdale Parade to St Mark's Church, Ocker Hill Road
• The Limestone WayLocal · LW8 km within 15 km · Dudley Priory Ruins to Beacon Hill Quarry
• Rail Trail: Marston Green Circular via ElmdonLocal · rtMG7.9 km within 15 km
• The Badger Trail, Clent HillsLocal7.6 km within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• 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 15 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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