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A coastal path through golden grass on the South West Coast Path in Cornwall, with the sea to the left and a white house nestled ahead beneath a tree.

Walking Holidays in Cornwall

See more of Cornwall on a self-guided walking holiday. Choose from our short breaks or our long-distance hikes, with something for even the newest walkers on our stile-free Camel Trail holidays.

Cornwall has a relaxed vibe that's best experienced at walking pace, with plenty of traditional pubs and cafes to delve into for a seaside break at lunchtime. On the South West Coast Path, you'll enjoy miles of stunning, sometimes rugged coastal views: the trail winds around every headland and down to each beach of the Cornish coastline, twining together a host of historied fishing villages along the way. Head inland across green fields and through ancient woodland on the Tamara Coast to Coast Way, or give your holiday a more spiritual slant with a pilgrimage to St Michael's Mount on the Land's End Round.

Find Your Holiday:

Circular Rambles • Inland Walks • Short Breaks for Long Weekends • Along the South West Coast Path • Bring Your Dog

Circular Walking Holidays

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Finish back where you started on a circular walking holiday in Cornwall, the ideal way to really explore a concentrated area - and travel home easily if you left your car at the start!

Discover the Trails

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Land's End Round

  • 5–7 nights
  • 60 miles
  • Moderate to Moderate/Demanding

Follow the South West Coast Path around the most south-westerly tip of England and cross back inland to the route's start along St Michael's Way, combining remote and rugged coastline with marshes, meadows and a brilliant hilltop viewpoint offering a panoramic view over the trail.

Inland Walks

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Explore Cornwall's lush countryside on these inland walking holidays. Visit charming villages, enjoy scenic views and ramble along pleasant riverside footpaths.

Discover the Trails

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Camel Trail

  • 3–4 nights
  • 18 miles
  • Easy to Moderate

The Camel Trail is our only stile-free walking holiday in Cornwall. This relaxed, well-surfaced route follows the River Camel through woodland and nature reserves, with plenty of rest stops and facilities along the way, and ends at the seaside in pretty Padstow.

Art in the Contours Holidays colours of a heron, a common site on the long riverside stints of the Tamara Coast to Coast Way in walking holiday in Cornwall.

Tamara Coast to Coast

  • 4 nights
  • 32 miles
  • Moderate

Follow the border between Cornwall and Devon on this coast-to-coast hike through lush scenery. The first half of the walk is stunning, delving through the Tamar Valley along the rushing riverside. From here, the trail follows country lanes and tours lakesides as it twines toward the seaside views of the far coast.

Short Walking Breaks in Cornwall

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Sample Cornwall's countryside on a short walking break over a few days. These short walks take in some of the best scenery in the shortest timeframe.

Discover the Trails

Art in the Contours Holidays colours of St Michael's Chapel, a simple stone building atop a headland on the South Cornwall Short Break.

South Cornwall Short Break

  • 3 nights
  • 28 miles
  • Moderate/Demanding

Visit harbour villages and clamber to stunning viewpoints at Rame Head and Penlee Point, taking in panoramic views along Cornwall's dramatic coastline. You'll cross the mouth of the River Tamar by boat, and conclude your walk in impressive naval Plymouth.

Art in the Contours Holidays colours of the steep Cornish coast on our Cornwall's Atlantic Coast Short Break.

Cornwall's Atlantic Coast Short Break

  • 4 nights
  • 26 miles
  • Moderate

Between characterful villages, hike through dramatic coastal scenery on this short walking break. You'll enjoy a mix of ancient woodland and clifftop views over Cornwall's rugged coastline.

Along the South West Coast Path

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The South West Coast Path covers the Cornish coast in its entirety, exploring windswept clifftops and protected coves, fishing villages and picturesque deciduous woodland.

Cornwall's Atlantic Coast: North

Art in the Contours company colours of Tintagel's ruined castle, sitting up on the cliffs on Cornwall's Atlantic Coast North.

Visit Tintagel and delve into fishing villages on this rugged coastline of coves and headlands over pebble beaches.

  • 7–9 nights
  • 80 miles
  • Moderate to Moderate/Demanding
     

Cornwall's Atlantic Coast: South

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Enjoy the most varied coastline on the South West Coast Path, including rock stacks, sandy bays and promontories.

  • 6–11 nights
  • 68 miles
  • Easy/Moderate to Moderate/Demanding

Far West
of Cornwall

Art in the Contours company colours of Minnack Theatre, a round outdoor theatre cut into the cliffside on the Far West of Cornwall walking holiday.

Round the southernmost tip of England, crowned with wildflowers, heather and gorse between old tin mines.

  • 4–7 nights
  • 42 miles
  • Easy/Moderate to Moderate/Demanding

South West Cornwall

Art in the Contours company colours of Wheal Prosper, the ruin of a tall stone building with a taller chimney beside it, part of a failed tin mine.

Embark on the wildest and most isolated leg of the coast path, rambling along red-green cliffs and through woodland.

  • 5–9 nights
  • 61 miles
  • Easy/Moderate to Moderate/Demanding

South Cornwall

Art in the Contours company colours of the Tide Time Bell, a structure standing in the surf on the South Cornwall walk. As the tide rises, the bells inside swing and chime.

This gentle trail tours estuary mouths, wooded inlets and pretty beaches, with great headland vantage points.

  • 7–9 nights
  • 80 miles
  • Moderate to Moderate/Demanding
     

Art in the Contours Holidays colours of three dogs - a beagle, a terrier and a sighthound - walking from right to left across the page.

Dog-Friendly Walking Holidays in Cornwall

Bring your dog to Cornwall on one of our dog-friendly walking holidays. Your dog will enjoy their own luggage transfers and pleasant overnight stays at your accommodation. Read more about how dog-friendly walking holidays work, or go ahead and choose from the following tours:

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