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Path repairs will help Coast to Coast walkers

Walkers on Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk will have a smoother passage along part of the route after improvements to a badly eroded section.

Plans would see Cumbrian fells added to Yorkshire Dales

More bits of Cumbria could find themselves in the Yorkshire Dales under a planned expansion of two northern English national parks.

Just the ticket: cut-price buses for right-to-roam walkers

An authority is offering cheap bus tickets to celebrate the 60th anniversary the setting up of Britain’s national parks.

Sell-off climbdown on land 'where walkers picnic and watch birds'

Downland in the newly created South Downs national park that was threatened with being sold has been taken off the market.

South Downs land sell-off 'must be halted'

Campaigners are calling on a council to halt the sale of land next to Britain’s second-biggest Iron Age hillfort.

Lakeland walkers warned as district takes stock

Lake District walkers are being advised to choose their routes with care as the area recovers from the recent devastating floods.

Julia will light up flood-hit Lakeland town

Fellwalking pin-up Julia Bradbury will brighten a flood-hit town this week when she turns on the Keswick Christmas lights.

Further warnings to Lakeland walkers are more rain due

Lake District national park chiefs are urging walkers to avoid the area’s fells and low-level routes until flood water has subsided.

Peak projects up for anniversary cash

Walkers and climbers have the chance to have their say on which Peak District project will get a £5,000 boost.

Turbines would be blot on Bowland landscape say opponents

Campaigners are urging planners to throw out an application to build wind turbines on common land in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

MSP backs mountaineering council's bid to control hill tracks

Scotland’s wilderness areas are being irrevocably damaged by the construction of uncontrolled hill tracks, according to the nation’s mountaineering body.

Minister urges walkers to prepare for winter

Scotland’s sport minister today urged winter walkers and mountaineers to get themselves ready for winter.

Ticks to tight boots: site has mountaineers' medical insights

Would you know how to cope with a medical emergency on the mountains? We all hope we will never need to deal with such a situation, but forewarned ...

Christensen takes the helm at Natural England

The acting chair of the Government’s advisory body on the natural environment has been confirmed as its head.

The long walk in: mountaineers in drive for change?

Is it cheating to drive off the metalled road to get to the start of your Scottish hillbagging trip? Or should the whole journey be powered by muscle ...

Cafe closed at popular Snowdon centre

Walkers and climbers heading for Wales’s highest peak had better make sure they have a packed lunch.

OS mapping to be freed – but not for the outdoors

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today announced an opening up of public access to Ordnance Survey maps. Speaking at a Downing Street seminar, Mr Brown ...