Verified walks

Walks somebody has actually walked

A small, slow catalogue of routes recorded on foot, checked by a second person, and reviewed before publication. It grows at the speed people can walk.

No walks are published yet

Trail Scout volunteers are out recording the first ones. Nothing is listed here until it has been walked, walked again by someone else, and approved — so for now this page is empty, and that is the honest state of it.

Trail Scout portal

Read from the published catalogue (version 0).

What verification means

A walk gets onto this page by being walked

Not scraped, not drawn on a map, not generated. Every step below has to happen before a walk is published, and the last one has to keep happening. The screenshots are the scout app doing each step, on a trail still in field test.

  1. Trail Scout mid-walk: a checkpoint marked where the scout is standing, waiting for a name, a kind — water, toilet, parking, hazard — and a word about what a walker should know right here.
    Trail Scout mid-walk: a checkpoint marked where the scout is standing, waiting for a name, a kind — water, toilet, parking, hazard — and a word about what a walker should know right here.
    Step 1

    Someone walks it, once, on foot

    A Trail Scout records the route while walking it, marking what a walker would want to know where they are standing. There is no map-drawing editor and no file import in the scout app, so the published line is a line a person's feet made.

  2. Trail Scout's Explore tab, listing trails and missions that need a scout: one route recorded once and marked “This route needs a second verification walk before it can publish”.
    Trail Scout's Explore tab, listing trails and missions that need a scout: one route recorded once and marked “This route needs a second verification walk before it can publish”.
    Step 2

    A second person walks it again

    The recording becomes a verification mission for a different scout, who walks it and whose track is compared with the original: coverage, checkpoints reached, plausible walking speed.

    A scout can never be given their own trail to verify — the service refuses it.

  3. One submission in Trail Scout's review queue, held at ADMIN_REVIEW with its evidence bar not met — access too-few-confirmations, passability not-checked, a hazard reported — and Approve, Changes and Reject left to a person.
    One submission in Trail Scout's review queue, held at ADMIN_REVIEW with its evidence bar not met — access too-few-confirmations, passability not-checked, a hazard reported — and Approve, Changes and Reject left to a person.
    Step 3

    A human reviews it before anything is published

    A passed verification does not publish a walk. It moves it into a review queue, where a person reads the notes, the hazards and the accessibility remarks and decides — and where a submission whose evidence does not add up simply stays put.

  4. A trail carrying its verification facts: walked and verified 3 times, last field check 24 August 2026, one unresolved field report, and the points walkers disagree about marked in red rather than averaged away.
    A trail carrying its verification facts: walked and verified 3 times, last field check 24 August 2026, one unresolved field report, and the points walkers disagree about marked in red rather than averaged away.
    Step 4

    The date is part of the claim

    Each published walk carries the date it was verified and the date it falls due to be walked again — twelve months later. Paths change; a verification with no expiry would be a promise nobody could keep.

Nothing appears here that has not been through all of it

This page reads the published catalogue and nothing else. Drafts, submissions waiting for review, and anything a reviewer turned down are not on an address the website can reach.

The same published catalogue is the only source of guided trails inside the Walkable app. Contributing happens in Trail Scout, a separate app for approved volunteers — the scout portal is where a scout follows their own submissions.

You do not need this page to go for a walk

Walkable plans walking routes on your phone — a loop of the length you fancy, or a way to somewhere specific — and guides you along them. Verified walks are an extra, not the way in.

The guides explain how the app plans and follows a route.

Know a walk worth publishing?

Trail Scout is the separate app volunteers use to record, annotate and verify walks. It is a contributor's tool rather than something to browse — but it is where every walk on this page will come from.

The scout portal is where a scout follows a submission through review.

Walk somewhere today

You do not have to wait for this page. Walkable plans a walk from where you are standing, works offline, and keeps your history on your phone.

Install fromGoogle Play

Android, in early access. There is no iPhone version yet. Read the guides