page_title: Long-distance trail
section_title: Coastal trails
hierarchical_section_title: Long-distance trail / Coastal trails
caption_attribution_description: English: A standard blue trail marking with two faces on a tree at the ridge of the Mátra Mountains
context_page_description: A long-distance trail is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas used for hiking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing. They exist on all continents except Antarctica.
  Many trails are marked on maps. Typically, a long-distance route will be at least 50 km long, but many run for several hundred miles, or longer.
  Many routes are waymarked and may cross public or private land and/or follow existing rights of way. Generally, the surface is not specially prepared, and the ground can be rough and uneven in areas, except in places such as converted rail tracks or popular walking routes where stone-pitching and slabs have been laid to prevent erosion. In some places, official trails will have the surface specially prepared to make the going easier.
context_section_description: These follow coastlines; examples are the Brittany Coast Path in France, the California Coastal Trail in the US, the South West Coast Path in England, the East Coast Trail in Canada, and the Otter Trail in South Africa. 
  The England Coast Path, in development by Natural England, will be around 2,700 miles (4,350 km) long. It is expected to open in 2020 as the longest coastal walking route in the world and Britain's longest National Trail.
caption: A view from the Hungarian National Blue Trail, a national trail, incorporated into the European Long Distance Walking Route E4.
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