Hiking near Bristol

Information

• The Best Bristol Walks: 26+ Walks in and Around Bristol

Trails

• River Avon Trail: From Pulteney Bridge in Bath through Bristol all the way to Pill near the coast. The web link also contains links to various guides.

  • River Avon Trail on AllTrails

  • GPX files:

    • Full walk (40,7km) upstream Pill to Bath

    • Full walk (40,7km) downstream Bath to Pill

• Clifton Down

  • Own walk through Clifton Down and Durham Down, starting near the Crist Church busstop near the roundabout at Clifton Down and B3129:

    • Circular clockwise

    • Curcular counterclockwise

• Leigh Woods nature reserve and Ashton Court Estate

  • Prepared walks start at Ashton Avenue Bridge

  • Own walk of 14.5 km:

    • Circular clockwise

    • Circular counterclockwise

  • Variant of 16.7 km with a part of the River Avon Trail:

    • Circular clockwise

    • Circular counterclockwise

    2024 visit: This variant wasn't worth it. Difficult decent to the Avon valley with unclear path towards the end, and the path back up was closed and will likely be so permanently. Some other paths had also largely disappeared and were hard to find.

• A loop along the Avon and through city woods eastwards from Ibis Temple Meads (19km)

  • Circular clockwise

  • Counterclockwise

• Bristol and Bath Railway Path

  • Trail on gps-routes.co.uk

  • Actual path Bristol to Bath (25,5km) and Bath to Bristol

  • Hotel Ibis in Bristol to Bath Bus Station (27,1km) and same route Bath Bus Station to Hotel Ibis in Bristol

• Countryside walk in the area between Bristol and Bath, with Kelston Round Hill etc.

  • Option 1: Saltford to Wick, 21.2km

    • Start point: Saltford bus top Tyning Road

    • Alternative start point for a shorter walk (17.9km): Kelston bus stop The Crown

    • End point: Wick bus stop The Carpenters Arm

    • Saltford to Wick GPX and reverse GPX

    • Shorter version: Kelston to Wick GPX and reverse GPX

  • Option 2: Saltford to Cold Ashton (17.8km)

    • Same two start points as option 1.

    • End point: Cold Ashton bus stop The White Hart

    • Saltford to Cold Ashton GPX and reverse GPX

    • Shorter version from Kelston to Cold Ashton (16.6km) GPX and reverse GPX

  • Option 3: The problem with both oprion 1 and 2 is that the bus service to Wick and Cold Ashton is very infrequent so you may have to rush in the morning to catch the bus, or wait long in the evening for bus. So instead one can opt to return to Bath instead.

    • Saltford to Bath (26.6km) GPX

    • Bath to Saltford (26.6km) GPX

In nearby Bath

• Bath Skyline Walk

  Reconstruction from a map and description, turned out to be fairly accurate: clockwise (9.40km) and counterclockwise (9.40km)