Bookings for Cheshire Hike 2025 are now open! Book now

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Cheshire Hike has seen Scouts, Explorers, Guides and Rangers walk between 30km and 60km in just two days for 57 years. The 2025 event will take place between 27th-28th September, and will see 850 Scouts and Guides within three age categories will walk these distances in a weekend, camping at basecamp overnight. Fancy getting involved?

Three routes, two days, one finish.

Cheshire Hike is an annual event run by Cheshire Scouts, for Scouts and Guides in Cheshire between the ages of 10½ and 17.

Across two days, three age categories and four possible team sizes and camping at a basecamp overnight, Scouts and Guides walk between 30km and 60km between start and finish locations that are revealed just two weeks before the event.

The 2025 event is being held between 27-28th September 2025. Bookings are now open for young people. You will need to register your interest with your leader, and they will book you onto the event.

As a volunteer, whether you’ve been involved before, or helping at Cheshire Hike would be a first, we’d love you to join us. We’re looking for help at the starts, our checkpoints, at our basecamp, the finish, and out on the road. Read about volunteering now.

Fancy helping?

Whether you've volunteered before or it's your first time, we're looking for leaders across the County for all kinds of roles.

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Watch Cheshire Hike 2024

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