page_title: Wicklow Way
section_title: Intersecting and connecting paths
hierarchical_section_title: Wicklow Way / Intersecting and connecting paths
caption_attribution_description: English: Stone pillar at the entrance to Drumgoff Forest, County Wicklow, Ireland, marking the halfway point of the Wicklow Way, a long distance walking route across the Wicklow Mountains from Marlay Park, County Dublin to Clonegal, County Carlow. The pillar was erected in 2006 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the trail.
context_page_description: The Wicklow Way is a 131-kilometre long-distance trail that crosses the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. It runs from Marlay Park in the southern suburbs of Dublin through County Wicklow and ends in the village of Clonegal in County Carlow. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the Irish Sports Council and is waymarked by posts with a yellow "walking man" symbol and a directional arrow. Typically completed in 5–7 days, it is one of the busiest of Ireland's National Waymarked Trails, with up to 24,000 people a year walking the most popular sections. The Way is also used regularly by a number of mountain running competitions.
  The trail follows forest tracks, mountain paths, boreens and quiet country roads. Mountains, upland lakes and steep-sided glacial valleys make up the terrain of the initial northern sections of the Way before giving way to gentler rolling foothills in the latter southern sections. Much of the route follows the contact point between the igneous granite of the western side of Wicklow and the metamorphic schists and slates of the eastern side.
context_section_description: The Wicklow Way forms part of European walking route E8 which runs from Dursey Island in County Cork to Istanbul in Turkey. The Irish section incorporates the Wicklow Way, the South Leinster Way, the East Munster Way, the Blackwater Way and parts of the Kerry Way and the Beara Way. There is an unmarked link route from Dublin Port (where the E8 connects to Liverpool by ferry) which follows the River Dodder to Rathfarnham and on to the Wicklow Way trailhead at Marlay Park via Saint Enda's Park. Similarly, an unmarked road walk connects Clonegal with the trailhead of the South Leinster Way in Kildavin, County Carlow.
  The Wicklow Way also shares part of its route with the Dublin Mountains Way along a section of the ridge between Two Rock and Tibradden. The Saint Kevin's Way Pilgrim Path starts at either Hollywood or Valleymount, County Wicklow and ends at Glendalough where it connects with the Wicklow Way.
  Sections of the Wicklow Way are also used by several National Looped Walks: the Maulin Mountain Loop and the Ballycumber, Kyle, and Mangan's Loops near Tinahely.
caption: The halfway point of the Wicklow Way at the entrance to Drumgoff Forest, Glenmalure
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