Trailblazer publishes highly practical route guides for UK National Trails and international treks. Guidebooks include large-scale trail maps (just under 1:20,000) with directions, tricky junctions, places to stay and eat, and points of interest written onto the maps; accommodation and eating options for all budgets, plus detailed public transport information.
Publisher's Information 2023
This guide covers the first section of the South West Coast Path, from Minehead to Bude (124.5 miles). This spectacular 10- to 12-day route passes through the Exmoor National Park following the highest coastline in England (over 800ft), through numerous idyllic villages such as Lynton and Clovelly, around Barnstaple Bay and Hartland Point to the seaside resort of Bude just over the border with Cornwall.
68 maps - 15 town and village plans and 53 large-scale walking maps - at just under 1:20,000 - showing route times, gradients, where to stay, interesting features; includes GPS waypoints
ltineraries for all walkers - whether walking the route in its entirety over 10 days or sampling the highlights on day walks and short breaks
Practical information for all budgets - Where to stay (campsites, hostels, B&Bs, pubs and hotels), where to eat, what to see
Comprehensive public transport information for daywalks - all access points on the path
GPS waypoints - downloadable from this website
3rd edition now includes new style mapping
South-West Coast Path 3-title series
PART 1: Exmoor & North Devon Coast Path
PART 2: Cornwall Coast Path
PART 3: Dorset & South Devon Coast Path
KEY FEATURES
1. Unique mapping features - In many walking guidebooks the reader has to read a route description then try to relate it to the map. Our guides are much easier to use because walking directions, tricky junctions, places to stay and eat, points of interest and walking times are all written onto the maps themselves in the places to which they apply. With their uncluttered clarity, these are not general-purpose maps but fully-edited maps drawn by walkers for walkers.
2. An all-in-one guide - Trailblazer guides include practical information not usually found in walking guides to the UK: places to stay, places to eat, attractions along the way and public transport information.
3. Part 1 of South West Coast Path series.
