Walking in Corsica

If you’re considering the GR20, you should be fit, have a head for heights, navigation skills and a good deal of mountain walking experience under your belt. Other walking trips come at a gentler pace, but you’ll still need to be in good shape, with between five and seven hours’ walking a day, plenty of steeps ascents and not many level paths (on one of our trips you’ll walk a section of the GR20, even if that’s not the focus of the whole vacation). Some walking tours will transfer you daily to a new walking destination, for example via the local mountain railway, and some also have rest time built in, when you can choose to simply relax or to soak up more Corsican culture, by exploring the mountain town of Corte or coastal Ajaccio, for example.

Walking vacations in Corsica run from late May to late September, but the best time to visit is either June or September, when there’s plenty of sun and blue skies, but you won’t wither under the sweltering temperatures of peak summer. It’s worth noting that the weather in Corsica is unpredictable, even in high season, so be prepared to meet a rainstorm at any time, or for your itinerary to be amended if the weather gods are unkind.

Corsica walking tours are either center based or point to point. On center based vacations you’ll stay at the same comfortable, family run hotel every night, and be transferred to different walking locations each morning. On point to point trips, including the GR20 of course, you’ll move on to a different location each day, with accommodation in simple shepherd’s huts, mountain refuges or campsites, where there’ll be plenty of other walkers to swap stories with.