Load Off Your Back - Specialising in Long Distance Walking Holidays

About Us

Load Off Your Back offers self-guided walking holidays throughout the UK on some of the country's showcase long distance footpaths and National Trails. You'll walk from inn to inn with your baggage transported between overnight stops, so all the load you’ll need on your back is a daypack carrying a jacket, your camera, perhaps a lunch and anything you really need when out on the trail.

It's your holiday, so choose where and when you want to go, for how long, and how far you want to walk each day. You can hike, ramble or stroll. You get the flexibility, we take the load of making all the arrangements for you. We'll book your accommodation, move your bags, provide the maps and guidebooks and give you the support you need.

Load Off Your Back is the self-guided holiday arm of independent walking holiday specialist Ramblers Worldwide Holidays; for 65 years we've have operated small-group guided walking holidays in spectacular locations throughout the UK and the world – currently about 140 holidays in 60 different countries! With Load Off Your Back you can enjoy the same experience on your own or with your family and friends on these holidays for the more independent minded walker. You'll find plenty to get your pulse racing and your feet tingling for adventure. There's simply no better way to explore and unwind.

When you holiday with us you not only get a fantastic experience but you help to give something back to the communities we visit too, thanks to the work of the Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust. Unlike many tour operators, the profits that are not required for the running of the business are channelled back into the Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust which supports environmental conservation projects in the UK and community projects overseas.

Britain's more beautiful on foot.