Routes tagged
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155 routes
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Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelAgamon Hula — The Cranes of the Hula Valley
A flat circuit of the restored lake in the Hula Valley, one of the great bottlenecks of the Europe–Africa flyway, where tens of thousands of common cranes spend the winter within metres of a covered hide.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CambodiaAngkor Small Circuit: Sunrise Temples in a Day
The classic one-day loop of Angkor — sunrise at Angkor Wat, the smiling faces of the Bayon in Angkor Thom, and the jungle-swallowed ruins of Ta Prohm.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 17 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Omer berner · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelBeit She'an: Walking Roman Scythopolis
The most complete Roman-Byzantine city in Israel — a colonnaded main street, a theatre for about 7,000, two bathhouses, and columns still lying where an earthquake threw them in 749.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Naotake Murayama · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainBilbao: Guggenheim to Casco Viejo Along the Nervión
A flat, easy day tracing Bilbao's reinvention — from Gehry's titanium museum along the river to the seven medieval streets and the pintxo bars of Plaza Nueva.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Fabio Ciminelli · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyBologna Porticoes Walk: Piazza Maggiore, the Two Towers and San Luca
An easy day through the red-brick heart of Bologna — a great medieval square, two leaning towers, a food market, the oldest university in the Western world, and the longest portico on earth.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ingfbruno · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk USABoston's Freedom Trail: Following the Red Line
A single day tracing the red line of the Freedom Trail, from Boston Common through the old town to the North End and across to Bunker Hill and USS Constitution.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The original uploader was אסף.צ at Hebrew Wikipedia. · Public domainCity walk IsraelCaesarea Maritima: Herod's Roman Port by the Sea
One easy day through a Roman capital on the Mediterranean — theatre, seaside palace, chariot track, Crusader harbour and a great aqueduct on the beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Kristoferb · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek FranceChamonix, the Mer de Glace and the Grand Balcon Nord
A day combining a rack railway, France's largest glacier and its ice cave, a high balcony path under the Chamonix aiguilles, and the cable car to the Aiguille du Midi.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Josh Hallett · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk FranceClassic Paris on Foot: Notre-Dame to the Arc de Triomphe
A single day walking the grand axis of Paris, from the island where the city was born, past the Louvre and through the Tuileries, up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Pkvan · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaCN Tower
Toronto's 553-metre icon from the inside: a glass-fronted elevator to the 346-metre observation level, the Glass Floor, The Top at 446.5 metres, the revolving 360 Restaurant and the open-air EdgeWalk.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.1 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainCórdoba: The Mezquita, the River and the Judería
An easy day across the old heart of Córdoba — a great mosque with a cathedral inside it, a Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir, a medieval Jewish quarter, a royal fortress and the flower-filled patios of San Basilio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Andrew Colin · CC BY 2.0City walk United KingdomEdinburgh: The Royal Mile and Arthur's Seat
One day from the castle on its volcanic rock, straight down the Royal Mile to Holyrood, then up an extinct volcano for the whole city at your feet.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hanan epstein · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelEin Avdat: The White Canyon of Zin
A short, vertical day in the Negev — a white chalk gorge with a 15-metre waterfall, spring-fed pools, Byzantine monks' caves and a ladder climb out onto the rim above the Wilderness of Zin.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Jan Helebrant · CC0Trek IsraelEin Gedi Nature Reserve: Nahal David and the David Waterfall
A short, water-rich hike up a desert canyon to the David Waterfall, then higher to a hidden cave, a spring and a 5,000-year-old temple above the Dead Sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Gfgbeach · CC0Attraction USAEpic Universe: Five Worlds Through the Portals
Universal's newest Orlando park — a garden hub world with four themed universes opening off it through portals: wizarding Paris, Super Nintendo World, the Isle of Berk and the monsters of Dark Universe.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Davidbena · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelGamla: The Fallen City, the Vultures and the Waterfall
One full day in the central Golan linking three separate trails — a besieged Roman-era city on a camel-hump ridge, a cliff lookout over Israel's largest griffon vulture colony, and the country's highest waterfall.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Canaan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainGaudí to the Gothic Quarter: A Barcelona Day on Foot
One easy day walking the length of Barcelona — from the rising towers of the Sagrada Família down the Modernista boulevards to the medieval lanes of the Barri Gòtic.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jebulon · CC0City walk SpainGranada on Foot: the Alhambra, the Albaicín and Sacromonte
One full day walking from the Nasrid palaces and the Generalife gardens down into the whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín, ending with sunset at San Nicolás and the cave quarter of Sacromonte.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arash Hashemi · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk IsraelHaifa: The Baháʼí Terraces, the German Colony and Wadi Nisnas
One downhill day across Mount Carmel — nineteen garden terraces, a golden shrine, a Templer boulevard, an Arab market quarter, and a cable car back to the sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Asaf T. · Public domainCity walk IsraelHerodium: Herod's Cone-Shaped Palace-Fortress
A single day at the mountain Herod the Great raised for himself in the desert — the climb up the artificial cone, the round towers, the theatre with its royal box, the Bar Kokhba tunnels and the tomb.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Nickaura (Nick Sevarg) · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk JapanHida-Takayama: Old Town, Morning Markets and the Higashiyama Course
A day through a mountain town the modern world mostly passed by — dark wooden merchant streets, riverside markets at dawn, a shogun's government house, and a temple walk into the hills.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Nikos Kitsakis · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk JapanHimeji Castle: the White Heron and its garden
A gentle half-day around Japan's finest original castle — the straight approach, the great white keep, the defensive maze, Princess Sen's corridor, and the walled garden next door.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Edmund Gall · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelJerusalem: A Walk Through the Old City's Four Quarters
One day on foot through a single square kilometre that is holy to half the world — the Armenian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Quarters, the Western Wall, the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Fg2 · Public domainCity walk JapanKamakura: The Great Buddha and the Daibutsu Hiking Trail
A day that starts at Japan's most famous bronze Buddha, climbs a wooded ridge trail behind the town, and comes down at a money-washing cave shrine and the old capital's greatest shrine.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jordy Meow · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk JapanKyoto Higashiyama: Kiyomizu-dera to the Philosopher's Path
The classic day through old Kyoto — hillside temples, preserved stone lanes, a geisha district and a canal-side walk under the cherry trees.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Lionel Terray · CC0Trek ArgentinaLaguna de los Tres — the Fitz Roy Viewpoint
Patagonia's most famous day hike: about 20 km out and back from El Chaltén, ending with a savage 400-metre climb to a glacial lagoon directly beneath the granite spire of Fitz Roy.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 20 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Aldg692VX · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceLyon on Foot: Renaissance Traboules to the Silk Weavers' Hill
One day across two hills and a peninsula — the Renaissance lanes of Vieux Lyon, Roman Fourvière, and the workshops of Croix-Rousse.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zarateman · CC0City walk SpainMadrid Historic Walk: From the Royal Palace to the Retiro
One easy day on foot across the old center of the Spanish capital — royal palace, arcaded squares, a literary quarter, the Prado, and a park that used to belong to kings.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: TheWanderingTraders · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USAMagic Kingdom: The Castle Park, Done Properly
One full day through all six lands of the most-visited theme park in the world — from the rope drop on Main Street to fireworks over Cinderella Castle.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Emilio García from Parla, Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelMahane Yehuda and Nachlaot: The Shuk by Day and by Night
Jerusalem's market at full volume, the courtyard lanes of Nachlaot behind it, and the shutter portraits that only appear after closing time.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Dansnguyen · CC0City walk USAManhattan on Foot: The High Line to the Brooklyn Bridge
One long, flat day across the best of downtown — an elevated park on an old freight line, Village squares, cast-iron SoHo, and a walk over the East River into DUMBO.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMasada Snake Path: Sunrise Ascent to the Desert Fortress
A pre-dawn climb up the winding Snake Path from the Dead Sea shore to reach Herod's cliff-top fortress just as the sun breaks over the desert.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Amaustan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceMont-Saint-Michel — Up Through the Village to the Abbey
A short but steep climb through a walled medieval island town, up the Grande Rue and the ramparts to the great abbey crowning the rock, ringed by one of Europe's biggest tidal bays.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Josep Renalias · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek SpainMontserrat: the Abbey and the Walk to Sant Jeroni
A day on the serrated mountain outside Barcelona — rack railway or cable car to the Benedictine abbey and the Black Madonna, then the funicular and a ridge walk to the summit of Sant Jeroni.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Yuvalr · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelMount Arbel: The Cliff Above the Sea of Galilee
A short, spectacular day above the Kinneret — the best lookout in the Galilee, a steep cliff descent on iron handholds, the rebel caves of Qal'at Ibn Ma'an, and out through Wadi Hamam.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: BenAveling · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek ItalyMount Etna from the South — Rifugio Sapienza to the Summit Craters
A single big day on Europe's most active volcano: lava cones at the road head, a cable car into the ash desert, and a guided walk to the steaming summit craters above the Valle del Bove.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: 663highland · CC BY 2.5Trek JapanMount Kōya: Okunoin, the Garan and a night in a temple
A day on the sacred mountain of Shingon Buddhism — the great cemetery avenue to Kōbō Daishi's mausoleum, the founder's temple complex, the head temple, and a night in a monks' lodging.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Noamdahary · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMount Tabor: The Dome Above the Jezreel Valley
A half-day climb up the switchbacks of the Galilee's most distinctive hill, to a summit shared by a Franciscan basilica, a Greek Orthodox monastery and one of the great views in Israel.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Pacman · Public domainTrek IsraelNahal Amud — Springs, Canyon and the Pillar Rock
A descent through the shaded canyon of the Amud Stream in the Upper Galilee, past year-round springs and pools to the tall pillar of rock that gave the stream its name, on down toward the Sea of Galilee.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Pacman · Public domainTrek IsraelNahal Kziv and Montfort Castle
A full day in the Galilee's greenest canyon — running water in every season, plane trees and oleander along the streambed, and a ruined Crusader castle on the spur above.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Hanay · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelNahal Yehudiya — The Canyon, the Ladder and the Swim
A hard water route down a basalt canyon in the central Golan: an iron ladder bolted to the cliff drops you into a pool you can only cross by swimming, then the trail runs on past the falls and the hexagonal columns.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Chris Litherland · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk USANew Orleans: The French Quarter and the Garden District
A day on foot through the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, then a streetcar ride to the mansions and above-ground tombs of the Garden District.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Thomaswm · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaNiagara Falls Day Trip from Toronto
The Horseshoe Falls from the brink, the boat and the tunnels behind them, then north along the Niagara Parkway to Niagara-on-the-Lake: the classic day out from Toronto, done properly.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceNice: The Promenade and the Old Town
A single easy day on foot along the seafront and through the sunlit lanes of Vieux Nice, from the Promenade des Anglais to a Russian cathedral.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: CarmelH1 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelNimrod Fortress: A Muslim Stronghold on the Slopes of Hermon
A walk through the largest medieval fortress in Israel — the keep, a hidden staircase down to a secret cistern, the great towers and their Arabic inscriptions, strung along a knife-edge ridge with the Hula Valley spread out below.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: israeltourism from Israel · CC BY 2.0City walk IsraelOld City of Acre: Crusaders, Khans and the Sea Walls
One easy day inside a walled port city where a Crusader fortress hides underground beneath an Ottoman capital, ringed by sea walls that stopped Napoleon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: User Gjm130 on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaOld Montreal on Foot: From Place d'Armes to the Clock Tower
A compact half-day through the city's founding streets: the Notre-Dame Basilica, the ruins under Pointe-à-Callière, cobbled Rue Saint-Paul, Place Jacques-Cartier, the sailors' chapel and the river at the Old Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Israel_photo_gallery · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelOld Nazareth on Foot: Basilica, Souk and the Living Village
A gentle day threading the Old City — from the vast Basilica of the Annunciation through the covered souk to the recreated first-century village on the hillside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Xavier Fournier-Blais · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CanadaOld Quebec on Foot: The Walls, the Château and the Lower Town
A five-kilometre loop through the only walled city north of Mexico: along the ramparts, across the Château Frontenac's terrace, down the Breakneck Stairs to Place Royale, and back up the hill.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Akonnchiroll · CC0City walk JapanOld Tokyo on Foot: Asakusa Temples to Ueno Park
A single easy day linking Tokyo's oldest temple to its grandest park — from the lanterns of Sensō-ji through kitchen-town backstreets to the museums and cherry trees of Ueno.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Azurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek JordanPetra on Foot: The Siq, the Treasury and the Monastery
A long, rewarding day walking into the Nabataean rose-red city — through the Siq to the Treasury, past the Royal Tombs, and up 800 steps to the Monastery.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 deCity walk ItalyPisa & Lucca: Two Tuscan Towns in a Day
The Leaning Tower and its marble square in Pisa, then a short train ride to Lucca to walk the Renaissance walls, the oval piazza and a tower crowned with oak trees.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CroatiaPlitvice Lakes: The Full Traverse
One day walking the length of Croatia's oldest national park on boardwalks laid across sixteen terraced turquoise lakes, with an electric boat over Kozjak and the 78-metre Veliki Slap at the end.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyPompeii & Vesuvius: The Buried City and the Volcano That Buried It
A single big day that pairs the excavated streets of Pompeii — Forum, House of the Faun, Villa of the Mysteries, the casts of the dead — with the crater rim of the volcano responsible.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Moyan Brenn from Italy · CC BY 2.0City walk Czech RepublicPrague on Foot: Old Town Square to Prague Castle
The classic royal route across the Vltava — from the Astronomical Clock over Charles Bridge and up through the Lesser Town to the castle and St Vitus Cathedral.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Tamarah · CC BY-SA 2.5City walk IsraelQumran: The Settlement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A single day on the marl plateau above the Dead Sea, where the caves gave up the Dead Sea Scrolls — the ruined settlement, the ritual baths, the scriptorium, the water system and the long argument over who lived here.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: FeaturedPics · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyRome Historic Center: Ancient Rome to the Baroque Heart
A single unforgettable day on foot, from the Colosseum through the Forum to the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chmee2 · CC BY 3.0City walk IsraelRosh HaNikra: The Grottoes at the End of the Country
A short, easy visit at Israel's northwestern corner — the steepest cable car in the world down a white chalk cliff, sea-carved grottoes, and a Mandate-era railway tunnel that stops at the Lebanese border.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USASan Francisco Waterfront: Fisherman's Wharf to the Golden Gate
A day along the northern shore — wharf, Embarcadero, one absurd crooked block, and then the long approach to the bridge and a walk across it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 13.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainSeville Historic Walk: Cathedral, Alcázar and Triana
An easy day across the old town of Andalusia's capital — the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, a Mudéjar royal palace, a whitewashed former Jewish quarter, and the river crossing to Triana.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zairon · CC BY 4.0City walk ItalySiena on Foot: The Campo, the Duomo and the Contrade
One easy day through the medieval heart of Siena, from the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo up to the striped cathedral and out into the lanes of the contrade.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Elizaveta Butryn · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceStrasbourg: A Day on the Grande Île
An easy day on foot around the island heart of Strasbourg — from the great sandstone cathedral to the half-timbered canals of La Petite France.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Nick Ang · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk AustraliaSydney's Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk
About six kilometres of clifftop path linking Sydney's most famous beaches — Bondi, Tamarama, Bronte, Clovelly and Coogee — past ocean pools, a cliffside cemetery and sandstone headlands the whole way.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Danie van der Merwe from Cape Town, South Africa · CC BY 2.0Trek South AfricaTable Mountain via Platteklip Gorge
The classic direct ascent of Table Mountain — a steep, sun-baked climb up the great cleft in the cliffs to the flat summit high above Cape Town, with the option to ride the cable car back down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Ynhockey · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelTel Aviv & Jaffa: From the Old Port to the White City
A single day on foot from ancient Jaffa north along the beach promenade through Neve Tzedek, Bauhaus boulevards and the Carmel Market to the Tel Aviv Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hanay · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelTel Dan Nature Reserve: The Jordan's Source and the House of David
A short, shaded walk through the lushest corner of the Galilee — wading the cold Dan Stream, then climbing the tel past the world's oldest arched gate to where the 'House of David' inscription was found.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: gugganij · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelThe Banias: Spring of Pan to the Waterfall
An easy day through the Hermon Stream reserve — from the cave and spring of Pan along a suspended riverside trail past Roman palace ruins to Israel's largest waterfall.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Bruno Rijsman · CC BY-SA 2.0Trek ItalyThe Blue Trail (Sentiero Azzurro) — Five Villages of the Cinque Terre
A coastal footpath threading the five cliff-clinging villages of the Cinque Terre — Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore — above terraced vineyards and the Ligurian Sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Euphoria42 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USAThe Chicago Loop: A Day Inside American Architecture
One day on foot through Chicago's central business district — Millennium Park, the Riverwalk, the Skydeck and the Art Institute, with the skyline overhead the whole way.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceThe Cité de Carcassonne: Double Ramparts and a Contested Restoration
A day inside the most famous walled town in France — 52 towers, the Château Comtal, and an argument about what 'medieval' means.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent · Public domainCity walk FranceThe D-Day Beaches: Omaha to Utah
A day along the Calvados coast, from Omaha Beach and the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer to Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches and Utah Beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Severin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek ChinaThe Great Wall: Jinshanling to Simatai
A classic day-hike along a wild-and-restored stretch of Ming wall, climbing over a ridgeline strung with dozens of watchtowers from Jinshanling toward Simatai.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Luca Casartelli · CC BY-SA 2.0Trek ItalyThe Greenway del Lago di Como — Colonno to Griante
An easy day on foot along the western shore of Lake Como, from Colonno to Griante through lakeside villages, great villas and old mule tracks — finished with a ferry to Bellagio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Bruno Rijsman · CC BY-SA 2.0Trek ItalyThe Path of the Gods — Sentiero degli Dei
A single unforgettable day walking a cliff-top balcony high above the Amalfi Coast, from Bomerano through Nocelle and down the old stone stairs into Positano.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Bönisch · CC BY-SA 2.0 deCity walk ItalyThe Sassi of Matera — Cave City on the Ravine
A day on foot through the two cave districts of Matera — Sasso Barisano and Sasso Caveoso — their rock churches and cave houses, ending at the viewpoint across the Murgia ravine.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Bobanny assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Stanley Park Seawall: Coal Harbour to English Bay on Foot
A flat, ten-kilometre loop around the edge of Vancouver's great forest park, from the marinas of Coal Harbour past totem poles, a lighthouse, the Lions Gate Bridge and a lone sea stack, to the sunset beaches of English Bay.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Eusebius · CC BY 3.0Trek New ZealandThe Tongariro Alpine Crossing
A single spectacular day across an active volcanic landscape — steaming craters, red cinder ridges and the vivid Emerald Lakes — often called New Zealand's finest day walk.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 19.4 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Little Savage · Public domainTrek IsraelTimna Park — Copper, Sandstone and Solomon's Pillars
A full day threading the red sandstone of the southern Negev: the Mushroom, the Arches, ancient Egyptian copper mines and rock carvings, and the towering Solomon's Pillars.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Dmitry Dzhus from London · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainToledo: The City of Three Cultures on Foot
A day inside the walls of the city where Christians, Muslims and Jews built side by side — from the Bisagra gate to the cathedral, two medieval synagogues, and the Tagus gorge.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Boris Dzhingarov · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainValencia: Old Town to the City of Arts and Sciences
An easy day across Valencia — a Gothic cathedral that guards a cup venerated as the Holy Grail, a great medieval city gate, a modernista market and silk exchange, a park in an old riverbed, and Calatrava's white City of Arts and Sciences.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hoppend · CC0City walk ItalyVerona Historic Walk: The Arena, Piazza delle Erbe and the Adige
An easy day on foot through the compact old city of Verona — a Roman amphitheatre still used for opera, medieval market squares, the tombs and castle of the Scaliger lords, and the river bend crossed by the oldest bridge in town.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: MARELBU · CC BY 3.0City walk CanadaVictoria in a day from Vancouver
British Columbia's capital as a long day trip: the ferry through the Gulf Islands, Butchart Gardens, and a walk around the Inner Harbour from the Parliament Buildings and the Empress to the Royal BC Museum and Canada's oldest Chinatown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USAWashington, D.C.: The National Mall on Foot
One free-flowing day across America's front lawn, from the Lincoln Memorial past the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian to the Capitol and a view of the White House.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: ThatsTheBoss · CC0City walk United KingdomWestminster to the Tower: A London City Walk
A single easy day on foot along the Thames, from Big Ben and Whitehall through Trafalgar Square to St Paul's and the Tower of London.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: TFNorman · Public domainTrek USAYosemite's Mist Trail: Vernal & Nevada Falls
One of Yosemite's greatest day hikes — a steep granite staircase drenched in waterfall spray, climbing past Vernal Fall to the top of Nevada Fall and looping back on the John Muir Trail.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Almog · Public domainCity walk IsraelZippori: Mosaics of the Roman Galilee
An easy day among the finest mosaic floors in Israel — the 'Mona Lisa of the Galilee', the Nile House, a Roman theatre, a Crusader keep and a water system cut through solid rock.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Sebastián Saiter V. · CC BY 4.0Attraction USAAquatica Orlando: The Water Park With Dolphins in the Plumbing
SeaWorld's South-Seas water park on the I-Drive corridor — a see-through slide past Commerson's dolphins and leopard sharks, twin wave pools, dueling rivers and one of Orlando's best kids' water fortresses.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: OT Avignon · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceAvignon & the Pont du Gard: Popes, a Broken Bridge and a Roman Aqueduct
One day that runs from the largest Gothic palace in Europe to the best-preserved Roman aqueduct bridge anywhere — about 6 km on foot inside Avignon, plus a short hop out to the Gard.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Diliff · CC BY 2.5City walk United KingdomBath: A Georgian Walk, From Roman Spring to Royal Crescent
One easy day through a honey-coloured city — the Roman Baths, the abbey, the great Georgian set pieces, and a bridge with shops all the way across.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: JZ85 · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USABlizzard Beach: The Ski Resort That Melted
Disney's snow-themed water park — a freak Florida blizzard built a ski resort, the snow melted, and the slopes became slides, with Summit Plummet free-falling off the top.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Markus Säynevirta · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaCapilano Suspension Bridge Park
Vancouver's most famous thrill: a swaying footbridge 137 metres long and 70 metres above the Capilano River, with a treetop walkway through old Douglas firs and a cantilevered cliffside path on the far side of the canyon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Priscilla Jordão from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0Attraction CanadaCasa Loma, the Baldwin Steps and Spadina House
Toronto's Edwardian castle, from the climb up the Baldwin Steps to the Great Hall, secret passages, towers, the tunnel to the stables and the gardens, finishing next door at Spadina House.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2.6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Palacemusic · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek USADelicate Arch — The Classic Half-Day Climb
A short but strenuous out-and-back from Wolfe Ranch, past a Ute petroglyph panel and up an open slickrock slab, to the most photographed arch in the American Southwest.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: NASA · Public domainAttraction USADiscovery Cove: The Day Orlando Slows Down
A reservation-only, all-inclusive swim resort across the road from SeaWorld — snorkel a reef of rays, drift a warm river into a walk-through aviary, and add a dolphin swim if you book it in time.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Antgiant · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USADisney Springs: The Free Evening at Disney World
Disney's open-air shopping, dining and entertainment district on Lake Buena Vista — four waterfront neighborhoods, free admission, free parking, and best from late afternoon into the night.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jedi94 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USADisney's Animal Kingdom: Half Zoo, Half Theme Park, Entirely Its Own Thing
A day in the largest theme park in the world — a real African safari, the floating mountains of Pandora, an Everest coaster and animal trails that reward slowing down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jedi94 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USADisney's Hollywood Studios: Coasters, Star Wars and a Show on the Water
One day through Disney's movie park — the Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, a full afternoon on Batuu in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, and Fantasmic! after dark.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: V. L. · CC0Trek CanadaDon Valley Ravines: Beltline to the Brick Works and Down the Don
A subway-to-subway day through Toronto's ravines: an old railway line, a forested creek valley, the Evergreen Brick Works and its quarry garden, then down the Don River to a skyline lookout.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11.8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No real name given · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaEnglish Bay to Kits Beach: Vancouver's Beach Walk
A summer walk from the laughing bronze figures at English Bay along Sunset Beach, over the Art Deco Burrard Bridge and through the museums of Vanier Park to Kitsilano Beach and the longest outdoor pool in North America.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jedi94 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USAEpcot: Around the World in One Very Long Walk
A figure-8 day through Epcot — headline rides in the front half of the park, then eleven country pavilions around the World Showcase Lagoon, ending with the nighttime show over the water.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Gary Campbell-Hall · CC BY 2.0City walk ItalyFlorence Historic Center: The Renaissance on Foot
One compact day from Brunelleschi's dome across the Arno to the Oltrarno, taking in the Baptistery, the Uffizi and the Ponte Vecchio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caTrek CanadaGaribaldi Lake from Rubble Creek
The big day hike of the Sea-to-Sky: nine kilometres and about 900 metres up through old forest from Rubble Creek to a vast turquoise lake held back by a volcanic lava dam, with glaciers pouring into its far shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Lee Coursey from Decatur, GA · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaGastown to Chinatown: Vancouver's Oldest Streets
A short, dense walk from the white sails of Canada Place through the cobbled saloon town where Vancouver began, past the steam clock and Maple Tree Square, into Canada's largest Chinatown and a Ming-style garden built by craftsmen from Suzhou.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The original uploader was Bobak at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Attraction USAGatorland: Old Florida, Still Biting
The self-styled Alligator Capital of the World, open since 1949 — gator-wrestling kitsch out front, a genuinely wild breeding marsh and bird rookery out back, and a zip line over the whole toothy lot.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaGranville Island and False Creek by Ferry and Foot
Cross False Creek on a bathtub-sized ferry to Granville Island's public market and working studios, then walk the south-shore seawall past the Olympic Village to the geodesic dome of Science World.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA · CC BY 2.0Trek CanadaHigh Park to the Humber: Cherry Blossoms and the Lakeshore
An easy downhill walk from the Bloor Street gate through High Park's gardens, cherry trees and Grenadier Pond, past Colborne Lodge, to the lake and over the Humber Bay Arch Bridge.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7.8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Balon Greyjoy · CC0City walk JapanHiroshima: Peace Memorial Park to Miyajima
A day in two halves — the memorial park and museum in central Hiroshima in the morning, then a short ferry to the island of Itsukushima and its shrine in the afternoon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: JK Liu · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaHockey Hall of Fame: The Cup, the Vault and the Shoot Out
Two hours in Toronto's hockey shrine: shoot on a virtual NHL goalie, walk the history of the game, then climb into a Victorian bank hall where the Stanley Cup stands.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.1 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Kiran891 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USAICON Park: An Evening Above International Drive
The 120-meter observation wheel at the heart of I-Drive, with a wax museum, an aquarium tunnel and a promenade of restaurants underneath it — Orlando's best easy evening.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Robert Linsdell · CC BY 2.0Attraction USAIslands of Adventure: Six Islands Around a Lagoon
A clockwise lap of Universal's ride park — Marvel coasters, Toon Lagoon soakers, the VelociCoaster, Hagrid's motorbikes and Hogwarts castle, ending in the candy-colored calm of Seuss Landing.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Clementp.fr · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaJacques-Cartier National Park: The Les Loups Trail
A day hike from Quebec City into a glacial valley 550 metres deep, climbing the Les Loups trail to two cliff-edge lookouts over the Jacques-Cartier River.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Giuseppe Milo · CC BY 2.0Trek CanadaJoffre Lakes: Three Glacier Lakes Under the Matier Icefield
A five-kilometre climb past three turquoise lakes, each brighter than the last, to Upper Joffre Lake at the foot of a hanging glacier. One of the most photographed hikes in BC, with a pass system and cultural closures you need to plan around.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: 金沢市 · CC BY 2.1 jpCity walk JapanKanazawa: Garden, Castle, Samurai and Geisha Districts
One easy day across the old castle town of the Maeda lords — a famous strolling garden, the castle it once belonged to, two preserved quarters and a covered market.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Kim Shiflett · Public domainAttraction USAKennedy Space Center: A Day at America's Spaceport
A full day on Merritt Island with the real Space Shuttle Atlantis, a genuine Saturn V moon rocket, launch pads on the horizon and astronauts who actually flew — about an hour east of Orlando.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CanadaKensington, Chinatown and Queen West
An afternoon through downtown Toronto's most layered neighbourhoods: Gehry's AGO, Chinatown on Spadina, the lanes of Kensington Market, Graffiti Alley, Queen Street West and sunset in Trinity Bellwoods.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Nathan Forget · CC BY 2.0Attraction USALegoland Florida: A Day Built from Bricks
The kid-scale theme park in Winter Haven, about 45 minutes from Orlando — coasters sized for first-timers, Miniland USA built from millions of bricks, and a historic botanical garden hiding inside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Suavemarimagno · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceLoire Châteaux Circuit: Chambord, Chenonceau, Amboise & Blois
Four of the Loire's greatest châteaux in one day — a driving circuit with roughly 8 km of walking in the grounds, not a continuous trail.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaLynn Canyon: Suspension Bridge, 30 Foot Pool and Twin Falls
A short rainforest loop on the North Shore that locals prefer to Capilano: a free suspension bridge 50 metres above Lynn Creek, a green swimming hole, and a second bridge over Twin Falls, all in about three kilometres.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5Attraction CanadaMontmorency Falls and the Île d'Orléans Loop
An 83-metre waterfall a quarter of an hour from Old Quebec, seen from its base, its cliff-top suspension bridge and its long staircase, then a drive around the farm island across the river.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelMount Herzl and Yad Vashem
A day on the western ridge of Jerusalem: Israel's national cemetery, and the Holocaust memorial that shares the hill with it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainTrek CanadaMount Royal: Olmsted's Road to the Cross, the Lake and the Lookout
A long, gentle loop over the mountain that gave Montreal its name: up Frederick Law Olmsted's switchbacks from the Cartier Monument, past the illuminated cross and Beaver Lake, to the Kondiaronk Belvedere and down the stairs into downtown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Xicotencatl · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaMuseum of Anthropology at UBC, Nitobe Garden and the Wreck Beach Stairs
The finest room in Vancouver, a hall of Northwest Coast totem poles behind a wall of glass, followed by a Japanese garden next door and a few hundred steps down to the wildest beach in the city.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Feri88 · CC BY 3.0City walk JapanNara Park: Kōfuku-ji to Naramachi
Japan's first permanent capital in a single day — a five-storied pagoda, hundreds of free-roaming deer, the Great Buddha in the world's great wooden hall, a lantern-lined shrine approach and an Edo-era merchant quarter.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek USANavajo Loop & Queen's Garden — The Bryce Amphitheater Circuit
The classic half-day combination: drop off the rim at Sunset Point through the Wall Street switchbacks, cross the hoodoo floor of the Bryce Amphitheater, and climb back out through Queen's Garden to Sunrise Point.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Jpatokal · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk JapanNikkō: Shrines of the Shogun and the Kegon Falls
A day pairing Japan's most ornate shrine complex — Ieyasu's mausoleum, the sleeping cat, the three wise monkeys — with a climb into the mountains to a 97-metre waterfall and a crater lake.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Geo Swan stitched by Marku1988 This image was created with Hugin. · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaOld Town Toronto: Union Station to the Distillery District
Toronto's founding blocks on foot: Union Station's Great Hall, the Gooderham Flatiron, St. James Cathedral, St. Lawrence Market and the Victorian whisky town of the Distillery District.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Marc Averette (talk) · CC BY-SA 1.0Attraction USAOrlando Science Center: The City's Rainy-Day Ace
Four floors of hands-on science in Loch Haven Park — indoor alligators, a brilliant under-7 floor, dinosaur digs and Florida's largest public telescope, ten minutes north of downtown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: 663highland · CC BY 2.5City walk JapanOsaka: The Castle, Kuromon Market and Dōtonbori
A day across Osaka's south side — a shogun's castle in its moated park, a covered food market, an old amusement district under a steel tower, and the neon canal that never turns off.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyPalermo Historic Walk: Arab-Norman Palaces and Street Markets
An easy day on foot through the layered heart of Sicily's capital — from the Baroque crossroads at Quattro Canti to golden Norman mosaics, two shouting street markets and Italy's largest opera house.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. LilDice assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Trek CanadaQuarry Rock from Deep Cove
A short, rooty forest climb on the Baden-Powell Trail from the seaside village of Deep Cove to a bare granite outcrop with a sweeping view over Indian Arm, the fjord at the eastern edge of the North Shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: EuroCarGT · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaRipley's Aquarium of Canada
Toronto's aquarium at the foot of the CN Tower: Canada's cold waters, an Indo-Pacific reef, a moving walkway beneath sharks and sawfish in Dangerous Lagoon, touch pools, jellyfish and rays.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.1 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Eddar27 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaRouge National Urban Park: Vista and Mast Trails
Canada's first national urban park on foot: up to the Vista Trail's viewing platform over two river valleys, then the old Mast Trail through Carolinian forest to Glen Rouge and back.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7.2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon) · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaRoyal Ontario Museum
Canada's largest museum in one well-paced visit: Libeskind's Crystal, the First Peoples gallery and crest poles, Gordo the Barosaurus and the dinosaur halls, the Burgess Shale, Chinese temple murals and ancient Egypt.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Paolo Costa Baldi · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction CanadaSaint Joseph's Oratory: Canada's Largest Church, Level by Level
Up the pilgrims' stairs and through the shrine a doorkeeper built: Brother André's first chapel, the candlelit Votive Chapel and his tomb, the crypt church, the great Art Deco basilica under the dome and the Way of the Cross garden on the mountainside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Doug Sim · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek United KingdomScafell Pike from Wasdale Head
The shortest way up England's highest mountain (978 m) — about 900 m of climbing from Wasdale through Lingmell Gill and Hollow Stones onto a summit that is a bare field of boulders.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9.6 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaScarborough Bluffs: Under the White Cliffs to Guild Park
Toronto's lakeside cliffs from below: Bluffer's beach at dawn, down the Doris McCarthy Trail through Gates Gully, then a wild shoreline walk under the Bluffs to the architectural ruins of Guild Park.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9.9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: DarkNight0917 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaSea to Sky Gondola, Shannon Falls and the Chief
An hour north of Vancouver on one of the great coastal highways: a 335-metre waterfall at the roadside, a ten-minute gondola to 885 metres above Howe Sound, a suspension bridge across the void and a straight look at the face of the Stawamus Chief.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 2.0Attraction USASeaWorld Orlando: The Coaster Park That Keeps Whales
One day at Orlando's quiet thrill capital — Mako, Kraken and Manta before the queues build, marine habitats through the midday heat, Sesame Street for the kids, and orcas at the stadiums to finish.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: giggel · CC BY 3.0Attraction CanadaSpace for Life and the Olympic Park: Gardens, Bugs, Ecosystems and Stars
A full day in Montreal's east end: the Botanical Garden and its Chinese and Japanese gardens, the Insectarium, the leaning tower of the 1976 Olympic Stadium, the five ecosystems of the Biodome and a dome show at the Planetarium.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Guillaume Cattiaux · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk CanadaThe Citadelle and the Plains of Abraham: Where Quebec Changed Hands
From the Château Frontenac along the cliff on the Governors' Promenade, into the star-shaped Citadelle, across the battlefield of 1759 and back down Grande Allée to the Parliament Building.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Pburka at English Wikipedia · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Grouse Grind
Vancouver's famous fitness test: 2.5 kilometres and about 800 metres of relentless climbing, much of it on stairs, straight up the face of Grouse Mountain through rainforest to a chalet with a view over the whole city. You ride the gondola down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2.5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Quercus acuta · CC0City walk JapanThe Hakone Loop: switchback railway, volcano and the lake torii
Japan's most enjoyable day of public transport — a switchbacking mountain railway, a cable car, a ropeway over a steaming volcanic valley, a pirate ship across a caldera lake, and a red torii standing in the water with Fuji behind it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USAThe Morse Museum & Winter Park: The Anti-Theme-Park Day
The world's greatest Tiffany collection, a reassembled 1893 chapel, an oak-lined brick main street and a pontoon cruise through lakeside estates — Orlando's grown-up day out.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jon Sullivan · Public domainTrek USAThe Narrows — Bottom-Up Day Hike
A one-day out-and-back wade up the Virgin River from the Temple of Sinawava, through the towering Wall Street slot canyon to Big Spring and back.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainCity walk CanadaThe Plateau and Mile End: Staircases, Smoked Meat and the Bagel Duel
An eating walk through Montreal's most lived-in neighbourhoods: a Victorian square, Parc La Fontaine, streets of twisting outdoor staircases, a smoked-meat sandwich on the Main and a head-to-head of the city's two great bagel bakeries.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek USAThe Upper Geyser Basin Boardwalk Walk
An easy day on the boardwalks of the Upper Geyser Basin — Old Faithful, the Castle, Grand and Riverside geysers, Morning Glory Pool, and a loop through Black Sand Basin.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: JK Liu · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaToronto Islands Loop: Ward's Island to Hanlan's Point
A car-free crossing of Toronto's islands on foot or by bike: ferry to Ward's Island, the lakeshore boardwalk, Centre Island, the oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes and sunset on Hanlan's Point Beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6.4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Mark Bradshaw · CC BY 3.0City walk CanadaToronto Waterfront: Harbourfront to Sherbourne Common
A flat four-kilometre walk along Queens Quay through the parks that won Toronto its lakeshore back: a garden built as a Bach suite, umbrella beaches, Harbourfront Centre and a glowing water channel at the end.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: JZ85 · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USATyphoon Lagoon: Disney's Shipwreck Water Park
Disney's castaway-themed water park, built around one of the largest wave pools in the world — with the shipwrecked Miss Tilly stranded on the mountain above it all.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: NBCUniversal · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USAUniversal Studios Florida: A Day on the Backlot
One day inside Universal's original Orlando park — full-scale movie streets, Diagon Alley hidden behind a London facade, Springfield built brick for brick, and Men in Black to finish.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Iiii I I I · CC BY 4.0Attraction CanadaVancouver Aquarium: The Pacific Coast Under One Roof
A two-to-three-hour loop through Vancouver's aquarium, tucked into the trees of Stanley Park: the cold, strange life of the BC coast first, rescued sea otters and sea lions outside, then a humid detour into the Amazon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyVenice on Foot: San Marco, Rialto and the Ghetto
A single day walking north through Venice — from the basilica and the Doge's Palace over the Rialto to the quiet canals of Cannaregio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: NBCUniversal · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USAVolcano Bay: A Day Under the Volcano
Universal's tropical-island water park — a 200-foot volcano over a wave lagoon, slides from gentle to vertical, and ordinary standby lines that reward an early arrival.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek USAYosemite Valley Floor — The Classic Day
A flat day on the floor of the valley, from the view at Tunnel View to Bridalveil Fall, El Capitan meadow, the base of Yosemite Falls and Cook's Meadow under Half Dome.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 13 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek United KingdomYr Wyddfa (Snowdon) by the Llanberis Path
The longest and most gradual way up the highest mountain in Wales — about 6.8 km of steady climbing beside the mountain railway, past the cliffs of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu to the summit at 1,085 m.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate