Booking onto Cheshire Hike

The plans for Cheshire Hike 2026, held between 26th-27th September, are well underway. Our (secret for now) start and finish locations have been chosen, we’re mapping out our basecamp, and our team of organisers have started plotting and walking the routes. Please find information below on how to book places this year.

We have three age categories, based on how old you are on Saturday 26th September 2026.

Teams consist of two, three, four or five young people, all who must be within the same age category.

Booking places for Cheshire Hike

In just 30 hours from bookings opening, Cheshire Hike is now fully booked, with all available places requested.

However, it’s not too late. Some places are still awaiting payment, so we’re now operating a waiting list for any places that become available.

• If you haven’t yet registered: Click the link below and register your Group. During registration, all Groups/Leaders go through an approval process, so please expect an email shortly after registering that will allow you to access the booking system. Once in, head to ‘Estimated Numbers’ and enter how many places you would like to request for your young people.
• If you’ve already registered: Simply increase your ‘Estimated Numbers’ with additional places you’d like to book.

Please do not pay for waiting list places yet. Any estimated numbers added or updated now will be treated as a waiting list request. If places become available, we’ll contact Groups on a first-to-book basis and ask for payment to confirm those places.

Once we’ve received your requested payment
You’ll be notified and can then start adding ‘Young People’ into the booking system – however there is no rush on this. You can wait until you’re more confident on who will take part. Once you’ve added a new young person, parents or carers will receive a link to complete their young person’s personal information.

After securing places
If one of your young people can no longer take part after their place has been paid for, that place can be reallocated to someone else by deleting their record and adding a new young person in the booking system. Refunds are not available. Leaders will need to place hikers into teams within ’Teams’ within the booking system, and those teams can be created and amended up until Friday 11th September. After that point, hikers can still withdraw and teams can merge if needed, but no new hikers can be added.

Before you book
Please do make sure you’ve checked the age categories before booking, as all young people in a team must be within the same category. The categories are based on how old they are on Saturday 26th September 2026.

Got a question?

Should you have any queries, we have a page full of FAQs to read. If you can’t find the answer to your question, please contact [email protected]. When contacting us through any channel, please bear in mind we’re all volunteers – we will respond as quickly as we can.