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The national parks

Fifteen parks, from the arctic plateau of the Cairngorms to the chalk of the South Downs. Each page has every walk we've mapped inside the park, the hills, and the guides that cover it.

Scotland

Cairngorms National Park

Britain's biggest national park: the high arctic plateau, the ancient pinewoods of Speyside and Deeside, and five of the six highest mountains in the country.

155 walks · highest point Ben Macdui, 1309 m

Still water on Loch Lomond with hills beyond

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park

Scotland's first national park, an hour from Glasgow: the loch, the Arrochar Alps, the Trossachs and twenty-one Munros.

121 walks · highest point Ben More, 1174 m

England

The view from Catbells over the Lake District

Lake District National Park

England's mountains: sixteen lakes, 214 Wainwrights, Scafell Pike, and the most walked fells in Britain.

109 walks · highest point Scafell Pike, 978 m

The Great Ridge path above Castleton at sunrise

Peak District National Park

Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield: the gritstone edges and bogs of the Dark Peak, the limestone dales of the White Peak.

14 walks · highest point Kinder Scout, 636 m

Yorkshire Dales National Park

Limestone country: the Three Peaks, dry-stone walls, caves and waterfalls, and the long green dales between.

30 walks · highest point Whernside, 736 m

Roseberry Topping above the Cleveland plain

North York Moors National Park

The largest heather moorland in England, the Cleveland Hills, and a coast of fishing villages and high cliffs.

10 walks · highest point Urra Moor, 454 m

Northumberland National Park

The emptiest national park in England: the Cheviots, Hadrian's Wall, Kielder's dark skies and almost nobody else.

12 walks · highest point The Cheviot, 815 m

Dartmoor National Park

The biggest wild space in southern England: granite tors, wide bog, deep wooded valleys and the right to camp.

5 walks · highest point High Willhays, 621 m

Exmoor National Park

Moorland that ends in the highest sea cliffs in England, with red deer, ponies and Dunkery Beacon.

3 walks · highest point Dunkery Beacon, 519 m

New Forest National Park

William the Conqueror's hunting forest, still grazed by free-roaming ponies: ancient woods, open heath and flat, easy walking.

Walks on the way · highest point Pipers Wait, 125 m

South Downs National Park

A hundred miles of chalk from Winchester to the Seven Sisters, with hillforts on top and the sea at the end.

7 walks · highest point Blackdown, 280 m

The Broads National Park

Britain's largest protected wetland, a web of rivers and shallow lakes under the biggest skies in England.

Walks on the way · highest point Strumpshaw Hill, 38 m