Adding up all the walks, including leaders, saw a total of 442 walkers, down from the high of 535 in 2024. However, the actual number of walkers attending the festival was only slightly down, with individuals doing fewer walks. Many thanks to those who joined us in 2025. We hope you enjoyed your walks and if you have any comments on the 2025 festival, we would be pleased to hear from you via our email – enquiries@ulverstonwalkfest.com
The 2026 festival will be at its traditional time from Saturday 25th April until Monday 4th May (the Early May Bank Holiday), with the usual wide range of walks to cover all tastes.
New Walk Leaders We continue to look for new walk leaders for 2026. If you would like to be involved but are not confident to be the main leader, we are happy to have you as a co-leader for your first year, but you would still need to be capable of leading the walk should anything untoward happen on the walk. If you are interested, contact the secretary at the above email.
Self-Guided Walks Our ‘Self-Guided Walks’ facility on this website, and available in paper format from local shops, is recommended. There are 2 back-to-back maps – one of Central Ulverston, including a Blue Plaque Walk, and one showing 6 walks which can be completed from Ulverston. The QR codes will present a digital map on a smart-phone, including your actual location and information on the route and notable sites encountered.
Self-Guided Walks
As well as our annual walking festival week of guided walks at the end of April, we are developing the following package to help you lead your own walks in the Ulverston area:-
- A free paper leaflet map of Ulverston town centre and the surrounding area. This is being finalised soon and will be available later this year in town centre shops and car parks. Contact us if you would like to see and comment on a draft copy.
- Walk guides web pages – see below – for 10 lovely self-guided walks that you can enjoy in and around Ulverston at any time of year. The paper map shows the 10 routes and for each includes a QR code that takes you to that walk’s webpage.
- An interactive online map of the Furness peninsula, which shows the route for each walk and (on a smartphone/tablet with GPS) enables you to track yourself on the map as you walk (your location never shared outside your device) and see route details at various waypoints around the walk.
- Note: before using the interactive map for the first time, please read our Interactive Map Help page to get you started.
