The majority of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which covers 841 square miles, is in North Yorkshire, with a sizeable area in Cumbria and a small part in Lancashire. The national park status was designated in 1954 and the westward extension into Lancashire and Cumbria occurred in 2016. The Yorkshire Dales is famous for outstanding scenery, unspoilt countryside, diverse wildlife habitats, and a rich cultural heritage. It includes some of the finest limestone scenery in the UK, as well as remote heather moorland tops, picturesque stone-built villages and traditional farming landscapes of field barns, drystone walls and flower-rich hay meadows. Visit Yorkshire Dales Online and Yorkshire Dales National Park to find out more.

Yorkshire Dales walking routes
Aysgarth and Castle Bolton
13 miles
Bainbridge and Wether Fell
12 miles
Bolton Abbey and Barden Fell
13 miles
Buckden and Yockenthwaite
12 miles
Carperby and Aysgarth Falls
13 miles
Chapel-le-Dale and Kingsdale
13 miles
Garsdale and Baugh Fell
13 miles
Garsdale Station and East Baugh Fell
12 miles
Grassington and Kilnsey Crag
10 miles
Grassington and Mossdale
13 miles
Grinton and Fremington Edge
11 miles
Hardraw and Cotterdale Common
12 miles
Hardraw and Great Shunner Fell
11 miles
Hebden and Barden Moor
13 miles
Hellgill Force and Pendragon Castle
10 miles
Hellgill Force and Wild Boar Fell
11 miles
Hubberholme and Beckermonds
12 miles
Ingleton and Park Fell
15 miles
Ingleton and Whernside
15 miles
Kettlewell and Buckden
10 miles
Kettlewell and Buckden Pike
12 miles
Langcliffe and Catrigg Force
11 miles
Litton and Pen-y-ghent
14 miles
Malham and Attermire Scar
14 miles
Muker and Gunnerside Gill
13 miles
Newbiggin-on-Lune and Crosby Garrett
10 miles
Newbiggin-on-Lune and The Calf
15 miles
Orton and Great Asby Scar
12 miles
Ravenstonedale and Green Bell
10 miles
Reeth and Crackpot
13 miles
Reeth and East Bolton Moor
14 miles
Reeth and Langthwaite
9 miles
Ribblehead Viaduct and Dentdale
15 miles
Ribblehead Viaduct and Ingleborough Cave
14 miles
Sedbergh and The Calf
12 miles
Storiths and Trollers Gill
15 miles
Thwaite and Tan Hill
15 miles
West Witton and Aysgarth Falls
14 miles
West Witton and West Burton
12 miles