🎈 Family days out
The Moors National Park Centre
National Park visitor centre in the Esk Valley with exhibitions, gallery, cafe, play area and riverside walks.
Moderate · Circular
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🎈 Family days out
🌿 Moors & nature
🌿 Moors & nature
Moderate
Moderate
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Danby Beacon and the Moors Centre
Riverside path, a climb to the beacon and a return over Oakley Walls with the Esk Valley spread out below.
Distance8 km / 5 miles
Time3 hours
GradeModerate
RouteCircular
From the Moors Centre cross the Esk and take the path up through Danby village and onto the moor to the beacon. Return east along the edge of Oakley Walls, an old moor-edge track with views the length of the valley, and drop back to the river near Lealholm or Danby.
- Long gradual climb of about 200 metres
- Cafe at the start and finish
- Danby station makes this possible by train
Things to see nearby
🎈 Family days out
🌿 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.
More walks
Moderate
Whitby to Robin Hood's Bay on the Cleveland Way
The classic clifftop day: abbey to bay past Saltwick, the lighthouse and the fog signal, with a bus back.
Moderate
Hawnby Hill and Easterside
Two whaleback hills in the quiet western dales with views to the Cleveland Hills and Bilsdale.
Moderate
Rosedale ironstone railway circuit
Level walking along an old mineral railway around the dale head, past ruined kilns, with the Lion Inn half way.