Isle of Wight Walking Festival (Autumn)

The Isle of Wight Autumn Walking Festival have released the dates for the Autumn Walking Festivals in 2023.

The nine-day October 2022 event saw more than a thousand people take part in 75 separate walks, discovering over 290 miles of the Isle of Wight coast and countryside.

The longest walk in the Autumn Walking Festival was the 13 miles Needles Half Marathon route, while shorter walks included a half a mile walk in a meadow.

Walks covering a range of interests from local history, flora and fauna and the arts, with 16 walks hosted by the New Carnival Company as part of the Crossing the Bar arts programme, linking coastal walking with the heritage, environment, and landscapes of the local area and celebrating the England Coast Path which will be unveiled in 2023.