Trip Tips & Insights
Practical, route-specific advice for the routes we cover — when to go, getting there, gear, water, permits and local know-how.
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Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.08 tips 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: Clemens Stockner · Public domain11 tips ItalyAlta Via 1 — The Classic Dolomites High Route
A six-day rifugio-to-rifugio highlights traverse of the Dolomites, from the emerald water of Lago di Braies over WWI passes and beneath the great walls of Civetta and Pelmo down towards Belluno.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 120 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.03 tips 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: Nancy Collins · CC BY-SA 3.011 tips NepalAnnapurna Base Camp — the Sanctuary Trek
Seven days from terraced Gurung villages up a hidden gorge into the Annapurna Sanctuary, an amphitheatre of 7,000-metre peaks closing a full circle around base camp at 4,130 m.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 90 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Omer berner · CC BY-SA 4.08 tips 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 2.08 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 3.08 tips 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 domain8 tips 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: Josh Hallett · CC BY-SA 2.03 tips 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 4.09 tips 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: Andrew Colin · CC BY 2.03 tips 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: Jan Helebrant · CC03 tips 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 · CC012 tips 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: Rdevany · CC BY-SA 3.011 tips NepalEverest Base Camp Trek: The 8-Day Highlights
An accelerated highlights version of the classic trek through the Khumbu — from the airstrip at Lukla up the Sherpa valleys to the foot of the world's highest mountain at 5,364 m.
- Duration
- 8 days
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Canaan · CC BY-SA 4.03 tips 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 · CC03 tips 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: Lennart Sikkema · CC BY 3.011 tips USAGrand Canyon Rim-to-Rim — North Kaibab to Bright Angel
The classic crossing of the Grand Canyon: down the North Kaibab Trail from the cool, forested North Rim to the Colorado River at Phantom Ranch, then up the Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Distance
- 38 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: אורן פלס · CC BY 2.511 tips IsraelIsrael National Trail: Five-Day Highlights
The most beautiful five days of the 1,100 km Israel National Trail — the Galilee ridges, Mount Carmel, the Wilderness of Zin, the Ramon Crater and the Eilat Mountains down to the Red Sea.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 92 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Sergey Pesterev · CC BY-SA 4.010 tips TanzaniaKilimanjaro: The Machame Route to Uhuru Peak
Six days from rainforest to glaciers on the 'Whiskey Route', the most scenic way up Kilimanjaro, camping from gate to gate and topping out at Uhuru Peak (5,895 m), the roof of Africa.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 62 km
- Difficulty
- Expert
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Photo: Jordy Meow · CC BY-SA 3.03 tips 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: Zarateman · CC03 tips 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 4.012 tips 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: Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.03 tips 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: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.08 tips CanadaMontreal in 3 Days
Three well-paced days: the old town and the Lachine Canal, a day on the mountain ending at Saint Joseph's Oratory, and a market-to-bagels walk through Little Italy, Mile End and the Plateau, with the Olympic Park as the swap for a rainy day.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Distance
- 26 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Suicasmo · CC BY-SA 4.011 tips JapanMount Fuji by the Yoshida Trail
Two days up Japan's sacred volcano on its most popular route, sleeping in a mountain hut near the eighth station to catch the goraiko sunrise from the 3,776 m summit.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 15 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Flickr user: Peter Rivera Stamford, Connecticut https://www.flickr.com/people/riverap1/ · CC BY 2.09 tips USA & CanadaNew York to Toronto by Car: Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes and Niagara in Five Days
About 900 kilometres from Manhattan to Toronto the long way round: sculpture and mountain views in the Hudson Valley, Catskills waterfalls, the gorges of the Finger Lakes, both sides of Niagara Falls and the wine country of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 900 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Thomaswm · CC BY-SA 4.08 tips 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: User Gjm130 on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.09 tips 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: Xavier Fournier-Blais · CC BY-SA 4.09 tips 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: osseous from Oakland Park, U.S.A. · CC BY 2.012 tips USAOrlando in 11 Days
The full sweep at a humane pace: four Disney parks, a real rest day, all three Universal parks including Epic Universe, then SeaWorld, Kennedy Space Center, and a water-park finale.
- Duration
- 11 days
- Distance
- 95 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Gfgbeach · CC012 tips USAOrlando in 14 Days
Two full weeks, nothing skipped: every Disney and Universal park, two water parks, Discovery Cove or SeaWorld, Kennedy Space Center, a kids-or-gators day, and a slow Winter Park finale.
- Duration
- 14 days
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: WillMcC · CC BY-SA 3.012 tips USAOrlando in 7 Days
One tight, well-ordered week: the four Walt Disney World parks first, then Universal's two classic parks, and a slow Disney Springs morning before the flight home.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 65 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Azurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.011 tips 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: Moyan Brenn from Italy · CC BY 2.03 tips 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: FeaturedPics · CC BY-SA 4.03 tips 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 3.03 tips 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: Bruno Rijsman · CC BY-SA 2.010 tips 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: Manfred Zentgraf, Volkach, Germany · CC BY-SA 3.011 tips France & SpainThe Camino Francés: Seven Iconic Stages to Santiago
A highlights walk along the famous French Way, from crossing the Pyrenees to the Iron Cross and Galicia's green hills, ending at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 168 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Euphoria42 · CC BY-SA 4.03 tips 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: Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.010 tips PeruThe Classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Four days on original Inca stone paths over high passes and past cloud-forest ruins, arriving at Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate at dawn.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 42 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Andreas Tille · CC BY-SA 4.010 tips IcelandThe Laugavegur Trail — Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk
Four days across Iceland's southern highlands, from the rhyolite mountains and hot springs of Landmannalaugar over an obsidian plateau and black-sand deserts to the birch woods of Þórsmörk.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 55 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Bobanny assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain8 tips 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 3.010 tips 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: Karen Chan 16 · CC BY 2.010 tips ChileThe W Trek, Torres del Paine
Four days tracing a giant 'W' through Patagonia's most famous park — the granite towers at dawn, the hanging glaciers of the French Valley, and the blue wall of Grey Glacier.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 75 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.08 tips CanadaToronto in 4 Days
A first-timer's Toronto: the old town and the CN Tower, the lake and the islands, the museum, the castle and the neighbourhoods, and a full day at Niagara Falls.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 36 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hseugut · CC BY-SA 4.011 tips France, Italy, SwitzerlandTour du Mont Blanc
A circular alpine classic looping 170 km around the Mont Blanc massif through France, Italy and Switzerland.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 170 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.08 tips CanadaVancouver in 5 days
Five days that show why Vancouver is different from every other big North American city: the seawall and Stanley Park, the rainforest canyons of the North Shore, Granville Island and the beaches, the Sea-to-Sky Highway into the mountains, and a day across the water in Victoria.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 40 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: MARELBU · CC BY 3.08 tips 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: ThatsTheBoss · CC03 tips 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 domain3 tips 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: Sebastián Saiter V. · CC BY 4.011 tips 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: JZ85 · CC BY-SA 3.011 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 2.08 tips 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: NASA · Public domain11 tips 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 4.010 tips 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 4.012 tips 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 4.012 tips 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. · CC08 tips 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 2.08 tips 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 4.012 tips 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: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 ca8 tips 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 2.08 tips 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 2.511 tips 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 3.08 tips 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 2.08 tips 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: JK Liu · CC BY-SA 4.09 tips 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 4.010 tips 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 2.012 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 2.09 tips 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: Kim Shiflett · Public domain12 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 2.010 tips 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: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.09 tips 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 2.58 tips 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: Chicoutimi · Public domain9 tips 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 4.09 tips 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: Geo Swan stitched by Marku1988 This image was created with Hugin. · CC BY-SA 3.08 tips 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 1.010 tips 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: No machine-readable author provided. LilDice assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.58 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 4.08 tips 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 3.08 tips 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: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.08 tips 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 4.09 tips 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 2.012 tips 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 3.09 tips 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 2.08 tips 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 domain9 tips 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: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.010 tips 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: Chicoutimi · Public domain9 tips 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: JK Liu · CC BY-SA 4.09 tips 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 3.08 tips 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 3.011 tips 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 3.012 tips 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 4.09 tips 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: NBCUniversal · CC BY-SA 4.011 tips 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