{"id":1337,"date":"2010-02-10T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:43","slug":"walkhighlands-celebrates-1000th-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/walkhighlands-celebrates-1000th-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Walkhighlands celebrates 1,000th route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are celebrating adding the 1,000 free walking route to Walkhighlands! The thousandth route was a fairly short jaunt up the the small but excellent hill of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/normans-law.shtml\">Norman&#8217;s Law<\/a> in Fife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2_16_3l-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2_16_3l-800x535.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2_16_3l-390x261.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2_16_3l-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2_16_3l.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul and Helen decided to start the site during a year-long 4,000 mile walk across continental Europe. It was the experience of a lifetime &#8211; and convinced them to try to bring the pleasures of walking to a bigger audience. During the three years since starting Walkhighlands.co.uk the site&#8217;s founders Paul and Helen Webster have been working away to provide the biggest, most comprehensive and well-featured walking routes site in Scotland &#8211; and have stuck to their original commitment to make it all available free. Adding an average of almost one new route every day has kept us busy but we&#8217;ve also been regularly launching new features. The combination has meant that, although covering only Scotland, Walkhighlands has now become the busiest walking routes website in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Features now include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over 1,000 detailed, well illustrated route descriptions covering walks at every level of difficulty.<\/li><li>Free 1:25 000 (and 1:50 000) Ordnance Survey mapping of every route<\/li><li>Hill-baggers can record your ascents of Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Marilyns, Hewitts and Wainwrights on their own personal interactive baggers map &#8211; and connect their tally to their Facebook account<\/li><li>Files to download to your GPS for each walk, compatable with all major devices (including smartphones) and brands of software. Our files are based on on-the-ground research for the greatest accuracy and detail<\/li><li>Help finding the start of routes: maps showing start points, public transport links, co-ordinates to input into your Satnav, or driving instructions available from anywhere in the UK to the start of each walk<\/li><li>Keep your own walks diary, recording your experiences and photographs<\/li><li>Read and share the experiences of others, seeing their photos and videos from every trail; all are automatically linked to from the routes and hills for easy reference<\/li><li>Gaelic podcasts of the pronunciation of most route names and meanings in the Highlands, including all hills<\/li><li>On your trip reports, easily draw your route on an OS map (or upload from your GPS) to illustrate where you went to others<\/li><li>Virtual Highlands &#8211; use Google Earth-powered tools to view routes and explore the landscape in 3D. Includes accommodation locations, and a special mode that allows you to wander the landscape from ground level &#8211; including the views from the summits.<\/li><li>Meet up with other walkers or simply discuss routes and gear in the lively forum<\/li><li>GPS planner &#8211; use our free 1:25 000 OS maps to plan your walks.<\/li><li>One of the Highlands largest databases of accommodation, made easy to access from across the site and featuring over 2,000 places to stay.<\/li><li>Latest outdoors news from across Scotland<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy walking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are celebrating adding the 1,000 free walking route to Walkhighlands! The thousandth route was a fairly short jaunt up the the small but excellent hill of Norman&#8217;s Law in Fife. Paul and Helen decided to start the site during a year-long 4,000 mile walk across continental Europe. It was the experience of a lifetime &#8211; and convinced them to try to bring the pleasures of walking to a bigger audience. During the three years since starting Walkhighlands.co.uk the site&#8217;s founders Paul and Helen Webster have been working away to provide the biggest, most comprehensive and well-featured walking routes site<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/walkhighlands-celebrates-1000th-route\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walk-highlands-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22116,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/22116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}