Walkers in Wales will have two more trails to choose from in spring 2026, with the opening of a new multi-day valley route and a heritage adventure in twinned coastal towns, adding over 134km of stunning Welsh sea and landscapes.
The Teifi Valley Trail presents a 134-km challenge, starting in the so-called “green desert of Wales” among the Cambrian Mountains at the Teifi Pools, source of the River Teifi. It explores the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve and its bogs, abbeys, mines, and waterfalls, before arriving at the dunes and marshes of Poppit Sands beach.
The hike can be completed as an eight-day epic or broken into sections. Part one is a 50-km, three-day walk from Pontrhydfendigaid village, past 12-century monastery ruins, towards Lampeter. Part two is a shorter 35-km stretch taking in market towns and (beware!) a floodplain, while part three entails 48 km and treats the eyeballs to 14th-century vestiges and independent shops at Newcastle Emlyn, as well as a wool museum in Dre-fach Felindre, and breathtaking scenery of the Teifi River Gorge.
The Teifi Valley Trail website said the “truly rural” route embraces “nature reserves, woodlands, floodplains and marshes, and finally the estuarine panoramas towards the coast,” adding that the walk traverses “a profoundly historic part of Wales, and the countryside through which the trail passes still bears witness equally to the ancient and to the relatively recent industrial past.”
For a more coastal adventure, the second new walk hitting Welsh maps in 2026 launched in February. The Fishguard and Goodwick Heritage Trail is a free self-guided route, celebrating 2,000 years of history. It brings together 46 sites, from iron age and ancient Celtic monuments, to modern rugby and wrestling legends, commemorations for 18th-century pirate attacks, and filming locations for Moby Dick, across the two maritime Pembrokeshire towns.
Jeremy Martineau of North Pembrokeshire Trade & Tourism explained the concept behind the spots chosen to feature on the trail: “Tourism today is about stories as much as scenery, and Fishguard has an extraordinary number of them for a town of its size,” he said, noting, “this trail shows how smaller places can celebrate what makes them distinctive and use their history to enrich both the visitor experience and the local economy.”
The Fishguard and Goodwick Heritage Trail is not only about the visitor economy, though. Martineau insists the new walk will make a difference to local residents too. He said, “When people understand the history of where they live, it builds pride in place and a stronger sense of community. This trail brings our shared stories out into the open—not just for visitors, but for residents too—and helps explain why Fishguard is such a special place to call home.”
For those who cannot reach Wales itself this year, Visit Wales has launched an immersive, mindful podcast designed to offer streamers a “multi-sensory escape” in the beauty of Welsh landscapes.
