Visit Herefordshire has released a free Herefordshire app that brings more than 60 walking, cycling and touring routes together with offline navigation and local visitor information.
Summary: Visit Herefordshire has launched a free Herefordshire app featuring 60+ curated walking, cycling and touring routes with online and offline navigation, powered by Outdooractive mapping.
Visit Herefordshire has introduced a free Herefordshire app that consolidates walking, cycling and touring routes into a single mobile platform. The new app combines curated trails, visitor attractions, local businesses and contextual content with mapping technology from Outdooractive, and it works both online and offline.
What the new app offers
Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store at no cost, the platform currently showcases more than 60 curated routes. Users can follow mapped trails, discover nearby places to eat and stay, and read content that highlights Herefordshire’s landscapes and cultural heritage.
- Offline and online navigation powered by Outdooractive
- Curated routes for a range of abilities and interests
- Local points of interest, businesses and visitor attractions
- Elevation profiles and difficulty ratings for trails
Routes for families, cyclists and long-distance walkers
The app includes route types to suit a broad audience. Family-friendly options feature short loops such as the Weobley Trail, where visitors can stop at a village skate park and cafés. Cyclists can find rides like the Croft Wood & Wigmore Rolls gravel route, which covers almost 19 miles over forest tracks and country lanes.
Walkers also have access to the Roast & Rambles collection of 15 circular pub walks, including the recently added winter route, The Lugg Valley Loop.
Long-distance trails are broken into day stages with elevation and difficulty information. These include Offa’s Dyke, the Herefordshire Trail, the Golden Valley Pilgrim Way, the Three Choirs Way, the Mortimer Trail and the Wye Valley Walk, enabling planning for multi-day itineraries.
Heritage, cider routes and the Watkins Way
Beyond standard trails, the app highlights thematic routes such as the Cider Circuits that celebrate Herefordshire’s cider-making traditions, and the 106-mile Watkins Way touring route inspired by Alfred Watkins’ exploration of ley lines.
The platform also consolidates routes published on the wider Outdooractive network by partners including the Malvern Hills National Landscape, the National Trust and White Heron Estate, drawing multiple local sources into a single resource.
Developed in collaboration with Outdooractive — a global outdoor-activity platform with more than 60 million active users — the Visit Herefordshire App benefits from Outdooractive’s content management and distribution, with content shared across Outdooractive.com and the Outdooractive app to extend international visibility.
How to get the app
The Visit Herefordshire App is free to download for iOS and Android devices and is designed to serve both visitors and local residents seeking organised route information and nearby services.
Why this matters: The app packages detailed trail data, navigation and local listings in one place, making it easier for people to plan walks, cycling outings and multi-day tours across Herefordshire while raising the county’s profile to domestic and international audiences.
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