Walking Holidays in Yorkshire
Explore God's Own Country on one of our walking holidays in Yorkshire.
Walking Holidays in Yorkshire
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Yorkshire is the ideal place for a walking holday, with a wide range of trails to choose from. This varied region boasts lush riversides, rolling fields, fascinating rock formations and plenty of welcoming towns and villages.
Find Your Holiday:
National Trails • Through the Yorkshire Dales • Fewer Moves • Circular Tours • Just Passing Through • Bring Your Dog
England’s National Trails are particularly well-waymarked and supported, with plenty of cultural relevance. Yorkshire boasts two!
The Yorkshire Dales National Park spans a huge area in Yorkshire, full of rolling hills, beautiful riverscapes and unusual limestone features. Tour these stunning landscapes on foot along these great walking routes.
This stunning riverside walk winds through the lush greenery you might expect from the Yorkshire Dales, partitioned by drystone walls and softened by stands of deciduous trees. The Dales Way visits such sites as Bolton Abbey and Barden Tower, not to mention a host of characterful Yorkshire villages, and culminates in the southern Lake District.
The Dales High Way climbs into the most dramatic stretches of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It explores windswept moors and the intense limestone landscape at Malham, clambers Ingleborough and skirts Whernside, and finds a gentler conclusion in the Eden Valley.
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Try Lady Anne’s Way for the ideal mix of history and countryside in the Yorkshire Dales. The trail heads through market towns and historic villages along Lady Anne’s Highway, visiting a host of castles that starts with Skipton Castle and ends at Brougham.
Make yourself comfortable and explore from just one or two overnight accommodations on these single- and twin-centre walking holidays.
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Really settle into the Yorkshire Dales with this Contours Holidays exclusive format that involves a selection of great circular day walks from two overnight towns. Explore first from Settle and then from Malham to discover dramatic waterfalls and Yorkshire’s famous limestone pavement.
Nidderdale lies just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park but is just as beautiful, benefiting from the gritstone shapes of Brinham Rocks and the spectacular limestone ravine of How Stean Gorge. Drop into Ripley Castle to add a little extra culture to the trail, which functions as a single-centre tour with pre-paid transfers to and from the trail each day.
A circular walking holiday is a great way to get much more familiar with a specific part of Yorkshire, linking local villages to the landscapes that support them.
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The Herriot Way is a circular walking holiday that explores the valleys of Wensleydale and Swaledale between some of Yorkshire’s most characterful villages, including Hawes, Keld and Reeth. It’s a brilliant introduction not only to Yorkshire but to long-distance walking as a whole.
You’ll explore Wharfedale, Littondale and Malhamdale on this short yet dramatic circular holiday, perfect for a long weekend. Discover the limestone formations of Malham Cove and Conistone Pie alongside the rushing rivers Wharfe and Skirfare, not to mention Yorkshire’s famous welcome in Kettlewell and Malham.
These impressively long trails contrast Yorkshire with other counties along the way. Watch the British countryside transform from the rugged fells of the Lake District to the lush green expanses of Yorkshire’s countryside, or trek along the country’s spine through Yorkshire’s highest reaches as you strike north toward the Scottish border.
On its long journey from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, the UK’s oldest National Trail cuts through the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
As it crosses England from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay, Wainwright’s famous trail delves through the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors national parks.
Several of our holidays in Yorkshire are available to walk with your dog, who’ll enjoy their own luggage transfers and pleasant overnight stays at your accommodation. Read more about how dog-friendly walking holidays work, or go ahead and choose from the following tours:
