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The right walk
for your dog.

Trekosa is an app that finds walks to suit your dog and you. Tell us what makes a walk hard: other dogs, sheep, stiles, busy roads, a dog who is slowing down, or only twenty minutes before work. We show you the roads, the stiles and the livestock on the way before you leave the house.

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PPPP12345500 mN5.8 km loop
  • The walk
  • Start
  • Stile
  • Car park
  • Bin
  • Pub
  • Footpath
  • Bridleway
  • Other path
  • Woodland
  • Water
  1. 1StartCar park at the start, with a pub 30 m away.
  2. 20.4–0.8 kmA busier road for a short stretch.
  3. 30.8–3.1 kmOff the road, through woods and beside a beck.
  4. 42.4 kmThe one stile, between grazing fields.
  5. 53.9–4.4 kmA busier road again, past a second pub.

A real walk from the app, drawn from what we measured. Nobody has reported on it yet.

36 sources, all credited

Who it is for

Every dog needs a different walk

Whatever makes a walk hard for yours, the walks we suggest are chosen around it.

  • A collie cross on a lead on an empty moorland pathShe can't cope with other dogs

    Away from where people gather

  • A border terrier waiting at a gate beside a bridlewayBikes and runners set him off

    Away from where people gather

  • A lurcher in a quiet woodland clearingBangs and traffic scare her

    Off the roads

  • A springer spaniel on a lead by a dry-stone wall, sheep in the field beyondHe goes after sheep

    Away from livestock

  • A rescue greyhound in a new harness on a woodland pathWe don't know her history yet

    Tell us as you learn, and the walks change

  • A labrador puppy on a short lead on a grassy pathOur first puppy

    Short walks, as short as you like

  • A border collie running on open hillsideHe needs a proper run

    Room to roam

  • An older labrador with a grey muzzle on a firm trackHe's slowing down

    Firm underfoot

  • A French bulldog resting in the shade of treesFlat face, hates the heat

    Shade among trees

  • A cocker spaniel wading in a shallow beckHe'll swim in anything

    Water on the way

  • A calm XL bully in a well-fitted basket muzzle on a lead in a fieldMuzzle on, lead on, by law

    Away from where people gather

  • An older woman with a walking stick and a cavalier on a level pathMy knees won't manage stiles

    No stiles or cattle grids

  • A parent pushing a pram along a towpath with a spaniel alongsidePushchair and a spaniel

    Firm underfoot

  • A jack russell on a lead in early morning light at the end of a streetTwenty minutes before work

    Starts near home, as short as you like

  • A dog on a lead beside moving boxes at an open front doorWe've just moved here

    The walks near you, measured

  • A dog and owner setting off along a terraced street towards green hillsNo car, so from the door

    Walks that start where you are

  • Two dogs jumping out of an open car boot at a car park by woodsSomewhere new at the weekend

    A car park at the start

  • A dog looking back at its owner at a familiar field gateSame loop every day

    Different walks, a few at a time

  • A dog on the doorstep of a holiday cottage in the hillsAway with the dog

    Walks near wherever you're staying

  • A runner and a dog in a canicross harness on a trailI run with my dog

    Loops at the length you run

  • A professional dog walker opening a van with several dogs insideSix dogs in the van

    Where to park, and the dog rules where we hold them

  • A dog trainer kneeling beside a nervous dog on a leadI point clients to the right walks

    Share a walk with a link

  • A young woman taking a borrowed dog out of a garden gateWalking a dog I've just met

    Tell us about the dog before you go

Your dog

Start by telling us about your dog

Talk for a couple of minutes, the way you would tell a friend, and we type as you speak. If you would rather not, answer the same questions by tapping. Either way you see it written down, and you can change anything before a word of it is kept.

  • Say it out loudBreed, age, what they love and what they cannot cope with. We never keep the recording.
  • Or tap your answersOne answer where only one fits, as many as you like where several do.
  • See what your walks have to doYour answers become a short list, like off the roads or away from livestock, and every walk we suggest is matched against it.

An example of telling Trekosa about a dog called Skye. Her owner answers the first question out loud, picks where she goes off the lead from a list, and ticks what she finds hard. Trekosa then shows her profile and what her walks have to do: away from livestock, off the roads, water on the way.

Finding a walk

Six walks at a time, one by one

Tell us where you want to start and how far you want to go. We look through the walks we hold near there, leave out any that clash with what you have told us, and bring you six that suit your dog and you. Say yes or no to each and the next one comes, for as long as we hold walks near you.

  • Choose where to startMove the map under the pin, or search for a place or postcode, and say how far away the walk may start.
  • Say how longAnything from 1 to 15 km, as a loop, there and back, or one way.
  • Meet them one by oneThey start in different directions, so you get a real choice rather than the same walk six ways. You see each one on its own, not in a list, keep the ones that suit, and there are always more behind them.

What every walk is checked against

Before a walk reaches you, we measure it against public data from the Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap, councils, Natural England, the Forestry Commission and the Department for Transport. The card turns that into a few plain facts, with anything that might stop you first. Here is what each check found on the walk at the top of this page.

  • Where you may walkCouncil maps of rights of way, open access land, woods open to the public and the coast path.
    On this walkA right of way for 91% of it, on footpaths, bridleways and lanes.
  • What is beside the pathGrazing and crop fields, woods and water, and protected sites with their nesting seasons.
    On this walkWoodland for 52% of it, water for 39%, and grazing fields beside most of it.
  • Roads and trafficThe roads a walk runs beside, with traffic counts from the Department for Transport where it counts them.
    On this walkA busier road for 17% of it, in two short stretches.
  • Dog rulesCouncil orders that restrict dogs, where we hold them, and a plain "not checked" where we do not.
    On this walkNo council dog order on this walk. Checked 30 July 2026.
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Before you go

Know it before you go

The same walk, laid out kilometre by kilometre: how it climbs, what sits beside the path, and where the stiles, gates and grids are. We show you this for every walk we suggest.

Height50–100 m
100 m
Stiles, gates and grids
Beside a road
A busier road
Woodland
Water
Grazing fields
Crops
0123455.8 km
0.3 km A busier road for 500 m. Woodland for 2.3 km2.4 km A stile. Beside water for 800 m3.9 km A busier road for 500 m5.2 km The highest point, 100 m
A busier roadFor 17% of the way, in two short stretches. You know where before you leave.
Livestock possibleGrazing fields sit beside most of it. Only somebody who has been can say whether there were animals in them.
Stile, gate or grid 1Pinned where it stands, so you know if your dog can manage it.

Your walks

Keep the ones that suit

Every walk you keep goes into your list, with how far it is, how long it takes and whether you have walked it. As the list grows, buttons appear across the top to narrow it down, and only the ones that would change what you see.

  • Grouped by how far awayClose to home, a short drive, or further afield, and by the name of the place when we can tell.
  • Narrowed in one tapWalks you have not tried yet, ones under an hour, close by, in woodland, beside water, with no stiles, or past a pub.
  • Your own walks as wellDraw the loop you already walk and it joins the same list.

An example of the walks a household has kept, grouped by how far away they are, with buttons across the top that narrow the list: Offline, Not tried, Under an hour, Close by.

Trekosa FurtherSubscription

Anywhere in Great Britain, even with no signal.

  • Trekosa, freeWalks in your home county, for good.
  • Trekosa FurtherWalks in the whole of Great Britain: England, Wales and Scotland, in one subscription.

Further is the Trekosa subscription. It opens up the whole of Great Britain and adds the OS Explorer map. Press Offline on a walk and its map stays on your phone when the signal goes. Drift off the path and you get a quiet buzz; want to turn back and it shows the quickest way to the start.

The first 250 households have it for good. After that, £4.99 a month or £34.99 a year.

Create an accountWhat Further adds
No signal1No signal2A buzz if you drift3The quickest way back

What people add

What only people can tell you

The map finds a walk that should be right. It cannot tell you whether a stile has been broken since March, or whether there were sheep in the field on Sunday. Somebody who has walked it can, and on Trekosa everything they say carries when they said it and how many of them have been.

A walk nobody has reported

No reports yet

When it's calm

Nobody has walked and reported this one yet. Yours would be the first.

Everything else on the walk is measured from the map. Walk it, and the first thing you say is the first line here, with your name off it unless you want it on, and the month beside it.

In the app, every kept walk has a button for this.

Example · once walkers have been

1 walker · today3 walkers · today6 walkers · 3 days ago6 walkers · nothing since August

When it's calm

One check-in so far. A quiet weekday early morning (today). Early days.

Early signal: weekday early mornings look quiet so far. Last confirmed today (3 check-ins).

Walkers report weekday early mornings stay quiet. Last confirmed 3 days ago (6 check-ins).

Walkers report weekday early mornings stay quiet. Last confirmed 52 days ago (6 check-ins).

The stile has a dog gate beside it. 

Nell · October 2026

Cows in the field just past the woods. 

A walker · October 2026

Muddy by the beck after rain, fine in boots. 

A walker · September 2026

Nothing said for 45 days, so the walk stops wearing green: the line keeps its date and the pill says nothing since.

Notes

What we have read and measured

The rules of the ground, what makes a walk hard for a dog, and how we check a walk before you see it. Every fact carries the date we read it and where it came from. All notes.

  • What makes a walk hardWalking a reactive dog: the first step out of the door

    A reactive dog needs sightlines, room to step off, a way out and a time nobody else picks. We ask once what your dog finds hard, check every walk for roads, stiles, livestock and lead rules, and say plainly what no map can know.

  • What makes a walk hardCows and dogs: why cattle follow a dog, and what to do

    Cows follow a dog because they see it as a threat, most of all when they have calves. The Health and Safety Executive names cows with calves and walkers with dogs as the two most common factors when cattle hurt people. Keep your dog on a short lead, give the herd plenty of room and never walk between a cow and her calf. If they come at you, let the dog go and get out of the field.

  • What makes a walk hardDogs near sheep and cattle: the law when you are walking a dog

    In England and Wales it is an offence to let a dog worry livestock, and since 18 March 2026 that covers attacks and incidents on roads and paths as well as fields. On open access land the lead is the law near livestock all year and from 1 March to 31 July.

Our promise

What we will never tell you

  • That a walk is safeNot safe, not secure, not fine off the lead. We cannot know it, the ground changes week to week, and being wrong about that once can set a household back months.
  • A top tenA ranked list sends everybody to the same place, which is the fastest way to spoil a quiet one. You get a short list for your dogs. The next person gets a different one.
  • Silence, where we know nothingIf nobody has walked it yet, the app says so. If we could not get a council's dog rules, it says that too. An empty space looks like good news, and we will not let it.

What you get instead is the date. Every fact carries who reported it, how many of them, and when it was last checked. Where our data comes from.

Where we are

Every county in England, all of Wales and all of Scotland.

It runs from Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles down to Cornwall. Find your county.

All of it for one thing. The confidence to get out the door.

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Questions

Questions people ask

Short answers. The rest of this page is the long ones.

What is Trekosa?
A free app that finds dog walks to suit your dog and you. Tell us once what your dog finds hard, such as other dogs, sheep, stiles or busy roads, and we show you walks near you that fit, with the roads, stiles and livestock marked before you leave the house.
Is it only for nervous or reactive dogs?
We built it for them first, and for the people who walk them, because that is the hardest walk to plan. It works just as well for a puppy, an old dog who is slowing down, a dog who has to stay on the lead, or an owner with twenty minutes before work. Whatever makes a walk hard for your dog is what we choose the walks around.
Where does it work?
Across every county in England, all of Wales and all of Scotland. We started in West Yorkshire, and every walk, wherever it is, is checked against the same public data. Where we hold no data for an area, we say so rather than guess.
Will it tell me whether a walk is right for my dog today?
No, and we never will. The ground changes week to week, and nobody can know from a desk what is in a field this morning. What we show you is what we measured and what other walkers reported, each with a date, so the decision is yours and you have what you need to make it.
Does it know where dogs must be on a lead?
Where a council has published a dog control order and we have managed to map it, yes: the walk says so. Where we could not get a council's rules, the walk says that instead, because a blank space looks like good news and it is not.
What does it cost?
Finding walks in your home county is free for good. Further, the subscription, opens up the whole of Great Britain and adds the OS Explorer map, the map with no signal and a buzz on the walk, for £4.99 a month or £34.99 a year, and the first 250 households to walk a route and check in have it free for good. No adverts, and we never sell your data.
Is there an app to install?
It runs in your phone's browser and adds to your home screen like any app, and it works away from signal once you have downloaded your area. An Android app is in testing on Google Play.