North Yorkshire provides the walker with a wealth of of walking routes to choose from. With two National Parks, the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the North York Moors National Park, four National Trails, The Pennine Way, the Dales Way, the Wolds Way and the Cleveland Way and three very famous walking routes Wainwright's Coast to Coast, The Three Peaks of Yorkshire and The Lyke Wake Walk walkers of all abilities can find a walking route to suit them within North Yorkshire. The geography of North Yorkshire also enhances the walking pleasure with a rugged coastline to the east with high cliffs and sharp descents to hidden bays, the high moorland of the North York Moors, the deep dry valleys of the Yorkshire Wolds, the flat plains of the Vale of York and the Vale of Mowbray and the limestone dales and high hills of the Yorkshire Dales. There are walking routes along rivers, across moors, in the wolds and in the dales so North Yorkshire is a county for the walker to explore time and time again. The highest point in North Yorkshire is the top of Whernside in the Yorkshire Dales National Park at 736m. Whernside is part of the Three Peaks of Yorkshire challenge walk
Traveling in North Yorkshire Moorsbus Traveline 0870 608 2 608 Black Sheep Brewery Theakston Brewery North York Moors Railway Wensleydale Railway Association
Walking routes in or passing through North Yorkshire in ascending order of distance
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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire are the Howardian Hills, Nidderdale and my wife and children
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