Long Distance Walking & Cycling Routes in County Durham
The Weardale Way
78 miles from the lead mines of the North Pennines along the River Wear through Weardale. The trail visits the historic towns & cities of Bishop Auckland, Durham, Chester-le-Street and Sunderland to the reach the coast at Roker
The Teesdale Way
92 miles across the North Pennines from Cumbria’s Eden Valley to the North Sea at Teesmouth or Redcar. The route follows the River Tees through Middleton-in-Teesdale, Barnard Castle, Darlington, Stockton & Middlesbrough
A 190-mile, multi-terrain, cycling loop devised by The Durham Cow. The route visits many of the sites found on the Weardale Way and Teesdale Way while tracing the boundary of the old County Palatine of Durham, from the sheltered North Sea coast to the steep, windswept hills of the North Pennines. If that all seems a bit too much, why not watch it from the sofa on YouTube?
