Waymarking

How to find your way on the Apollo Trails

The whole Apollo Trails network is shown on large network boards in the villages. Along the way, the hiking trails are signposted at every junction and waymarked in white and red, so you can walk with confidence. Here is what each sign means.

Apollo Trails network board on a stone wall
The network

Network boards

In the villages you will find large network boards with the overall map of the Apollo Trails, showing:

  • all trails on one map, each with its number and colour
  • the name of every trail and the villages and sights it connects
  • distance, walking time and difficulty of each trail
  • a legend explaining the waymarking
  • QR codes for the website and the routes in the app
Hiking trails

Signposts

At junctions, wooden posts with white plates show where you are and where each path leads. Every direction plate shows the trail number, an arrow and the destination in Greek and English; some plates also give the distance.

Apollo Trails signpost in Ampeliona
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Hiking trails

Painted waymarks

Between junctions, the trail is marked with red and white paint on rocks, walls and trees.

Follow the marksTwo stripes, white above red: you are on the trail.
Follow the arrowThe stripes end in a point: go that way.
Turning pointThe stripes curve: the trail turns here.
Wrong directionA red cross: this is not the way, go back to the last waymark.

Cycling routes

Cycling routes have no signposts or painted waymarks along the way. Use the offline navigation in the Outdooractive app: download the route before you set off and follow it on your phone.

Walk carefully, you walk at your own risk. Mobile signal is patchy in places: do not walk alone.

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Hiking trailsCycling routes