England · National park
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Limestone country: the Three Peaks, dry-stone walls, caves and waterfalls, and the long green dales between.
The Dales are the Pennines at their most generous: broad valleys, stone villages and field barns, and above them the limestone pavements, potholes and flat-topped hills of the Three Peaks. Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough are the famous walk, but Wensleydale, Swaledale and Wharfedale have as much to offer with fewer people on them.
Settle, Ingleton, Hawes, Grassington and Skipton are the bases, and the Settle to Carlisle railway puts several of the best walks within reach by train.
- Highest point
- Whernside, 736 m
- Area
- 2,179 km²
- Designated
- 1954
- Walks mapped
- 30
- TRXO regions
- Pennines, Dales & Cheviots
30 walks
