The Camel Trail is a permissive cycleway in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, that provides a recreational route for walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders.

As a rail trail, the route has only a slight incline following the River Camel from Padstow to Wenford Bridge via Wadebridge and Bodmin, at a total of 18.3 miles (29.5 km) long.

[4] The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was originally built at a cost of £35,000 following a study commissioned in 1831 by local landowner Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow.

[8] The now LSWR-owned NCR line from Halwill Junction reached Wadebridge station in June 1895, and then Padstow in March 1899.

[10] As quarrying and fishing diminished, and lorries reducing delivery by rail, the railway lost much of its freight traffic.

[5][13] With the cessation of Padstow–Wadebridge services, Cornwall County Council purchased the trackbed from British Railways and in 1980 converted the bed to a public trail.

[3] After the closure of the Wenford's clay freight services, the North Cornwall District Council (NCDC) acquired the Boscarne–Wenfordbridge trackbed for use as a footpath.

[15] The second was from Poley's Bridge near St Breward, to Wenfordbridge through the old clay dries, which was made possible by Imerys donating the land.

Between the Wadebridge and Padstow, the trail passes through the Camel Estuary section of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

There were objections from cyclists as at this point the rail bed had been used for the Camel Trail[22][23] and the china clay drier closed in 2002.

[2] On 18 December 2020, Sustrans published a study regarding a potential extension of the Camel Trail from Wenfordbridge to Camelford and on to Delabole.