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Walking in North Yorkshire

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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

Yorkshire Dales National Park North York Moors National Park

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Grades gradual ascents or descents along well defined paths or tracks. Suitable for novice walkers
considerable ascents and descents over moderate fell type terrain
strenuous sometimes exposed routes requiring map reading and navigational skills

Walking routes in or passing through North Yorkshire in ascending order of distance


Wass Wanderers' Way 17km / 10.5 miles
Blue Man Walk 26km / 16 miles
Heart of Bowland Walk 29km / 18 miles
 
Howardian Way 32km / 20 miles
Knaresborough Round 32km / 20 miles
Newtondale Trail 32km / 20 miles
Skipton Settle Link 32km / 20 miles
Harrogate Ringway 34km / 21 miles
High Hunsley Circuit 39km / 24 miles
 
Yorkshire Square Walk 39km / 24 miles
Settle Scramble 40km / 25 miles
 
Three Rivers Walk 40 km / 25 miles
 
Three Peaks of Yorkshire 39km / 24 miles
Nidd Vale Circuit 42km / 26 miles
 
Scarborough Rock Challenge 42km / 26 miles
 
Wharfedale Washburn Walk 42km / 26 miles
 
Foss Walk 45km / 28 miles
Nidd Valley Link 45km / 28 miles
 
Almscliff Amble 48km / 30 miles
 
Bilsdale Circuit 48km / 30 miles
 
Three Moors Walk 48km / 30 miles
 
Hambleton Hobble 50km / 31 miles
 
North Bowland Traverse 50km / 31 miles
Lower Dales Three Hostels Walk 51km / 32 miles
 
North York Moors Wobble 51km / 32 miles
 
Esk Valley Walk 56km / 35 miles
 
Limestone Lion 56km / 35 miles
 
Rosedale Circuit 59km / 37 miles
 
Lyke Wake Walk 63km / 39 miles
Chalkland Way 64km / 40 miles
Samaritan Way 64km / 40 miles
 
Seahorse Saunter 69km / 43 miles
 
Ainsty Bounds Walk 71km / 44 miles
 
Airedale Way 80km / 50 miles
 
Minster Way 80km / 50 miles
Ripon Rowel 80km / 50 miles
Nidderdale Way 85km / 53 miles
Herriot Way 88km / 55 miles
 
Jorvic Way 104km / 65 miles
Ebor Way 112km / 70 miles
Dales Walk 112km / 70 miles
Lancashire Trial 113km / 70 miles
 
Ribble Way 118km / 73 miles
Inn Way 122km / 76 miles
Swale Way 124km / 77 miles
Bowland Round 128km / 79 miles
Wolds Way 127km / 79 miles
Dales Way 130km / 81 miles
Centenary Way 133km / 83 mile
Eskdale Way 133km / 83 miles
East Riding Heritage Way 136km / 84 miles
Tidewater Way 145 km / 90 miles
 
Bowland - Dales Traverse 153km / 95 miles
 
North York Moors Walk 158km / 98 miles
Lady Anne's Way 161km / 100 miles
 
Roses Walk 161km / 100 miles
 
Yoredale Way 163km / 101 miles
 
Abbeys Amble 167km / 104 miles
 
Abbott's Hike 172km / 107 miles
 
Cleveland Way 177km / 110 miles
Coast to Coast 306km / 190 miles
Pennine Way 404km / 251 miles

 


Further Information

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National Trails

This is Ryedale

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire are the Howardian Hills, Nidderdale and my wife and children

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