Footprints in the Desert is the fifth studio album by Hugh Cornwell, released in April 2002 by Track Record.

It was recorded in Bath with James Cadsky, who engineered the Wired album.

The same year, Track Records also reissued Cornwell's 1999 album, Mayday, on CD.

In 2006, Cornwell told online music magazine Penny Black Music that the album "was a set of songs that I had recorded in the mid 90's which had never got released because I was out of a publishing deal and out of a record contract.

"[4] All tracks are written by Hugh Cornwell, except where notedCredits adapted from AllMusic.