CARDIFF LOCAL AREA

 Walking routes

• Outdoor Cardiff.
• Ramblers Routes Local routes from the Ramblers
• Bute Park Trails including wildlife, history, tree and fitness trails
• Alltrails Cardiff wide variety of routes in Cardiff
   
• Bunny Walks - a series of walks from the Taff-Ely Ramblers group.
• Valeways organisation has a number of walk routes in the Vale of Glamorgan, and put much effort into keeping the routes waymarked and in good condition,
• Caerphilly Green Spaces - currently unavailable "under maintenance".
• Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) walking pages, and a map of routes.
• Newport council walking pages,
• Monmouthshire council walking pages,
• Vale of Glamorgan - currently don't appear to publish walking routes (see Valeways above),
• Blaenau Gwent council local trails,
• Visit Merthyr Things To Do has a page full of local trails,
• Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Trust also have a set of ten heritage walks leaflets.
• Cwmcarn walk routes,
• Recreational paths in Bridgend County Borough: 19 walk route leaflets in Bridgend county. Currently link fails - I've raised a query with the council.
• Llynfi Valley Walks - five routes from Maesteg Town Council,
• Neath Port Talbot (NPT) walk routes
• BBC One Weatherman Walking Derek Brockway's walk routes,
• Geologists Association Walks Leaflets Leaflets for 18 walks in the area with geological interest,
• Walking Trails on the Peoples Collection Wales web site. Try a search for "walks",
• GPS walking routes in Wales
• Walks near Swansea
• Wales Online - 18 country walks within easy reach of Cardiff
• National Trust - Short walks in south Wales and Longer walks in south Wales some great walks, a bit further from home
• Great Glamorgan Way -  26 walk routes around Glamorgan.
• Llwybr Coedwig Cymru - "A circa 80km waymarked pilot section of the Llwybr Coedwig Cymru Trail connecting you to some of our National Forest sites in South Wales".

Other organisations - Cardiff

• Ramblers Glamorgan area other Ramblers groups in the Glamorgan area
• Cardiff CHA Walking Club
• Cardiff Outdoor Group
• Cardiff Parks a fantastic resource for anyone interested in the history, trees or photos around Cardiff's parks and gardens
• Age Cymru Walking Groups page
• U3A walking group
• Cardiff Conservation Volunteers
• Cardiff Naturalists
• Friends of Roath Park
• Friends of Forest Farm
• Caerphilly Woodlands Trust Coed y Werin (Wern Ddu)
• Cardiff County Council are the local highways authority - all rights of way problems should be reported to them.
  Useful pages for ramblers include a map of public rights of way.

Wales

• Ramblers page for our area
• South Wales LDWA Longer walks with the South Wales group of the Long Distance Walkers Association
• Valleys Regional Park
• Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales
• Open Spaces Society - Wales
• Natural Resources Wales
• Brecon Beacons National Park
• Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
• explore-gower all you need to know about the Gower Peninsula
• Wilderness Wales
• Stone pages For fans of the stone age
• CastleWales Very useful site for the historical rambler
• Nature Reserves Wales First Nature guide to the Nature Reserves and other top Wildlife Sites in Wales
• Indusrial Wales Thousands of heritage photos of  the area - so many places to go out and look for.

GENERAL

• Ramblers Holidays
• Walking Britain Numerous routes across the UK, though sadly lacking in the Glamorgan / Gwent area
• Institute of Public Rights of Way Officers More interesting that it sounds!
• National Search And Rescue Dog Association
• Ordnance Survey
• Geograph photos of anywhere you might wish to visit.
• All the Elements Directory Directory of sites relating to Diversity in the outdoors in all its aspects.