York Walking Festival

The 2024 York Walking Festival is taking place from Saturday 14 September to Sunday 22 September.

Group walks

View the York Walking Festival timetable to find a list of interesting group walks of a varying difficulty that you can go on.

Walks include:

Bat Walk
Bird watching
Countryside walk
Foraging walk at Rowntree Park
River Foss wildlife and history

BetterPoints

Why not download the BetterPoints app to take advantage of the extra points available during the festival?

Lots of people have already earned York Gift Cards and other vouchers.

You can earn double points per minute (up to 80 BetterPoints a day) for any walking or wheeling activity of at least half a mile, and going on many of the festival's group walks will get you a bonus 200 BetterPoints.

See the BetterPoints York Walking Festival page for more details.

Walking resources

There are lots of great resources available for you in York:

Other festivities

See details of other festivals taking place in September:

York Environment Weeks - 14 September to 12 October
Heritage Open Days - 6 to 15 September