🚵 Active & outdoors
Dalby Forest
Forestry England's flagship forest with mountain bike trails, Go Ape, a visitor centre and dark skies.
Moderate · Circular
Photo: Martin Dawes , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
🚵 Active & outdoors
🌿 Moors & nature
🎈 Family days out
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Bridestones and Dovedale Griff
Sandstone rock stacks, heather moor and an ancient oak wood in a National Trust reserve.
Distance5 km / 3.1 miles
Time2 hours
GradeModerate
RouteCircular
From Staindale climb through the trees onto Low Bridestones, follow the ridge past the mushroom-shaped rocks, cross the valley and return along High Bridestones. Drop into Dovedale Griff, a wooded ravine with some of the oldest oaks in the National Park, before returning to the car park.
- Some steep steps and a rocky ridge path
- Heather in bloom in August
- Dalby Forest drive toll applies
Things to see nearby
🚵 Active & outdoors
🌿 Moors & nature
The Bridestones
Weathered sandstone stacks on a heather ridge inside Dalby Forest.
🎈 Family days out
Go Ape Dalby Forest
Treetop ropes course and zip wires among the pines, plus forest Segway trails.
More walks
Moderate
Robin Hood's Bay to Ravenscar
Cliff path out along the Cleveland Way, old railway back: the best half-day on the Yorkshire coast.
Moderate
Mallyan Spout and Beck Hole
Waterfall, riverside gorge, a tiny pub and an easy return along an old railway.
Moderate
Great Ayton to Captain Cook's Monument
A climb from Cook's boyhood village to the obelisk on Easby Moor, with Roseberry Topping across the valley.