🌿 Moors & nature
Roseberry Topping
The distinctive mini-Matterhorn peak on the northern edge of the moors, with huge views for a short climb.
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Moors & nature
🌿 Moors & nature
🌿 Moors & nature
Sutton Bank and the National Park Centre
James Herriot called this the finest view in England. Easy walks, cycle hire and a cafe on the escarpment edge.
🌿 Moors & nature
Hole of Horcum
A vast natural amphitheatre in the moors, said to have been scooped out by the giant Wade.
🌿 Moors & nature
Mallyan Spout
The highest waterfall in the National Park, a 20-minute walk from Goathland through a wooded gorge.
🌿 Moors & nature
Farndale daffodils
Every spring the banks of the River Dove fill with wild daffodils for a mile and a half.
🌿 Moors & nature
Falling Foss and the Hermitage
Woodland waterfall with a tea garden beside it and a cave hermitage carved from a boulder.
🌿 Moors & nature
The Bridestones
Weathered sandstone stacks on a heather ridge inside Dalby Forest.
🌿 Moors & nature
Cod Beck Reservoir
Pine-fringed reservoir with a level path all the way round, a mile from Osmotherley.
🌿 Moors & nature
Helmsley Walled Garden
Five acres of restored Victorian walled garden beneath the castle, run as a charity with a vine house cafe.
🌿 Moors & nature
Levisham Station and Newton Dale
The remotest stop on the steam railway, at the bottom of a glacial gorge, with walks in every direction.
🌿 Moors & nature
Danby Beacon
A moor-top viewpoint above the Esk Valley with a modern beacon and views to the coast.
🌿 Moors & nature
Scaling Dam
Reservoir on the northern edge of the moors with a sailing club, nature reserve and easy lakeside path.
🌿 Moors & nature
Ralph Cross and Fat Betty
Two medieval waymarkers at the top of the moors, one the emblem of the National Park.
🌿 Moors & nature
Blakey Topping
A conical hill dropped by the giant Wade, ringed by standing stones and views into the Hole of Horcum.
🌿 Moors & nature
Thomason Foss
A hidden waterfall in a wooded gorge below Beck Hole, a short scramble from the pub.
🌿 Moors & nature
Forge Valley Woods
A wooded gorge of the River Derwent where wild birds feed from your hand.
🌿 Moors & nature
Bransdale
The quietest dale on the moors, a National Trust estate with a restored watermill and a road that loops nowhere.