Glendalough & Wicklow Way Walks

The Wicklow Mountains are renowned for their scenic beauty, and offer a variety of walking challenges - from woodlands and rolling hills to wild craggy mountain climbs. This is the largest unbroken block of high raised ground in Ireland, covering almost the same area as that of Mont Blanc, being about 50km long by 40km wide. Ideal for corporate, social groups, or friends, The Royal Hotel can help you organize walks tailored to your desires using the service of a professional guide. Walks can be of several days.  Contact us for more information at wicklow-walks@regencyhotels.com Walk The Wicklow Mountains "The Garden of Ireland", renowned world wide for its scenic beauty, offers a variety of walking challenges - from woodlands and rolling hills to wild craggy mountain climbs. The Wicklow Mountains lie just south of Dublin on the East Coast. This is the largest unbroken block of high raised ground in Ireland, covering almost the same area as that of Mont Blanc, being about 50km long by 40km wide. This is a single-based tour. When the mountains meet the sea, some amazing paths run through sandy or stony beaches or up cliffs and hills, overlooking the whole of Dublin. Let us orgainise a guide Self Guided Walks in Wicklow Bray is at the footsteps of the Wicklow Mountains and offers a great variety of walks for every level of difficulty, fitness or age. most walks are within 30 minutes from the Royal Hotel by car of public transport, with some starting from the Royal Hotel's doorstep.. Daily Group Walks Footfalls Walking Holidays in collaboration with the Royal Hotel is organizing affordable professionally led small group walks to the Wicklow Mountains, with pick up and drop off at the Royal Hotel in Bray. LIMITED PLACES - BOOK EARLY Walk Glendalough 30 minutes from the Royal hotel, the monastic city of Glendalough, offers great walks through the Wicklow Mountains National Park. Click here for more info Wicklow Way Walk The Wicklow Way is 127Km/80 miles and runs north south through the county, taking in many of its fine glens, lush green pastures and peaceful corrie lakes. The Royal Hotel can organize drop-off and pick-up along the Wicklow Way from Marlay Park and Glendalough. Click here for more info on the Wicklow Way
The Wicklow Way
The first of Ireland's official way-marked long distance walking routes, starting at the foothills of the Dublin Mountains. The Wicklow Way takes you through one of Ireland's premier counties, Wicklow, which has earned itself the noble title of 'The Garden of Ireland'. The Wicklow Way is 127Km/80 miles long and runs north/south through the county, taking in many of its fine glens, lush green pastures and peaceful corrie lakes, and over some of its gentle mountains, covered with a blanket of peat and heather, combined with forests of coniferous plantations. If you haven’t the time – or energy – for a week’s walking, try the 10km stretch from Crone Wood, near Enniskerry, to Ballinastoe Woods above Lough Tay, on the Guinness Estate. The trail takes the walker over the top of Powerscourt Waterfall and Deer Park with glorious seascapes from the eastern slopes of Djouce mountain. Crossing White Hill the sea disappears from view, while the Wicklow mountains open to the west in a magnificent backdrop to Lough Tay at the foot of Luggala’s cliffs.
Glendalough
There are nine marked walking trails around this ‘Valley of the Two Lakes’, ranging from the ‘easy’ 3km Green Road walk to the ‘hillwalking’ 11km (490m climb) Spinc and the Wicklow Way route. The Green Road is a wooded path along the Lower Lake from the ruins of the sixth century monastic city to the great Upper Lake. Perhaps the loveliest walk of all, though, is the second toughest – 9km. (389m climb) Spinc and Glenealo Valley – up along the rim of Glendalough Valley, overlooking the Upper Lake, and dropping into Glenealo Valley to return by the Miners’ Road to the Information Centre, where a map showing these trails is available.
Bray Head
Only 471m high, Bray Head shouldn’t have fantastic views – but it does! Because of its location beside the sea, away from the rest of the Wicklow mountains, it enjoys a very wide panorama of both sea and mountains. The climb from the southern end of Bray’s promenade is steep (much easier from the Bray/Greystones road, opposite Kilruddery House, to the west), but it gives great views all the way to the cross on the summit. There’s a trail to the south, from the cross, that takes the walker above the railway line and then westwards to drop down, briefly, onto the Bray/Greystones road, before turning left to the cliff walk back to Bray. Approximately, two to two and a half hours walking.