Newton Stewart Walking Festival

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Thank you for your interest in Newton Stewart Walking Festival. Galloway is a wonderfully unspoilt landscape with an endless variety of routes for walkers to enjoy. We offer a programme of around 30 routes over 7 days, with transport and guides included, as well as a programme of evening social events.

Update 6 May 2026:

The participant information pack is available to download here. It contains all the information you need.

Online booking closes at 5pm on Thursday 7 May.

Spaces still available

Although we have had lots of bookings, we still have some availability across a number of our walks, including the following.

• Walk 2-2 Into solitude: Millfore
• Walk 4-1 Game on: Mochrum Fell
• Walk 4-2 Wild west coast to Portpatrick
• Walk 5-1 KIng of the gypsies
• Walk 5-2 Fells, woods and lochs
• Walk 6-1 Round the lochs
• Walk 7-1 Into the past: Cairnsmore of Carsphairn
• Walk 7-2 Kirk, Castle and Coast
• Walk 7-3 Gem Rock and Creetown's Quarries

Finally, some other walks have the odd one or two spaces available, so you might be lucky and secure the last spaces on those routes.

When you book online you will receive a confirmation of your payment from Paypal. Please accept this as confirmation of the walks you are booked on. 

To help you plan your visit to the 2026 Newton Stewart Walking Festival, here are some quick links:

• A one page summary of the full programme can be found here. (Paper copies will soon be available to pick up from Stewart R Cunningham Outdoor Centre in Newton Stewart)
• A map showing the location of each of the routes in this years's programme can be found here.
• Our participant information pack for this year's festival is available to download here.

Find out more about Newton Stewart, the Gateway to the Galloway Hills, and why not discover many wonderful self guided walks around Newton Stewart at any time of year using our free booklet. More visitor information on our region can be found on the Scotland Starts Here website.

Newton Stewart is a Walkers are Welcome Town and WalkFest is a Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere charter mark event.