Hiking routes around Wigan

No national or international trail comes within 15 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. GM Ringway passes through Wigan: 20 sections with 325 km mapped in all, 58 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Salford Trail, 39 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 61 of the 68 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 4 local routes are short walks: 4 of them are under 10 km.

• GM RingwayRegional · 20 sections58 km within 15 km · 325 km in all
• Rainford Linear ParkLocal3.5 km within 15 km
• Adlington Circular WalkLocal2.6 km within 15 km
• Salford TrailRegional2.6 km within 15 km · 39 km in all
• Rotary WayLocal0.9 km within 15 km
• Wigan WayLocal0.1 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Hiking routes