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For your perfect break, you’ll fi nd a great choice of places to stay to suit all budgets. From coastal self-catering cottages and cosy bed & breakfasts to camping spots by secluded rivers or even a wigwam, you’re certain to fi nd everything that you need.


Look for the Cyclists Welcome or Walkers Welcome logo when booking which tells you that the accommodation has extra facilities, like water points for washing bikes and lockable storage areas for cyclists and space for drying outdoor clothes and cleaning boots for walkers.


Look for the leaf when booking your holiday. The Green Tourism Business Scheme awards are places to stay and visit that are taking action to support the local area and the wider environment.


06 Craven Garth Farm Cottages Rosedale


In the heart of the North York Moors National Park, you will fi nd Craven Garth, a family run working farm, nestling in the beautiful valley of Rosedale surrounded by stunning scenery. Stay in our traditional cottages renovated from the old barns.


Walking, cycling and horse riding could have been invented for the North York Moors. Get on your bike, pull on your walking boots and you can explore breathtaking moor and coastal paths, steep-sloped valleys and fragrant pine forests all in the same day.


And when you’re ready to take a break, set a course for the charming market towns and a hearty pub lunch and then back to Rosedale for Yorkshire food at its fi nest. There are tearooms, a bakery, pubs and restaurants, all within two miles of the cottages. Or simply relax in your cottage in front of a log fi re.


Craven Garth Farm Holiday Cottages, Rosedale, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8RH 01751 417506 Ena@visitrosedale.co.uk


visitrosedale.co.uk


To plan your next break, go to yorkshire.com/accommodation


Rosedale © Chris Ceaser Walkers on Cleveland Way, Hasty Bank © Mike Kipling


Shops, guided bike rides & cycle hire Pickering


North York Moors National Park


Golden Square Caravan & Camping Park*, Oswaldkirk 01439 788269


Sawdon Heights*, Sawdon 01723 859321


Malton


R Yates Cycles, 20 Castlegate 01653 693215


Ordnance Survey Explorer maps


For detailed maps use Ordnance Survey Explorer maps: • OL27 North York Moors Eastern Area


• OL26 North York Moors Western Area


• 300 Howardian Hills & Malton


• 301 Scarborough, Bridlington & Flamborough Head


Big Bear Bikes*, Southgate, Pickering. 01751 474220


Gone Mountain Biking, Eleven Westgate 01751 475111


*Cycle hire available Useful links


For all you need to know about Yorkshire’s Great Outdoors


www.yorkshire.com/outdoors


More mountain bike route ideas www.muddybums.org.uk


National Cycle Network routes www.sustrans.org.uk


For walks, cycle ideas and information on Moorsbus, the National Park's bus network www.northyorkmoors.org.uk


For more travel information www.yorkshire.com/travel


For more information and other cycling ideas, go to yorkshire.com/bike


Mountain biking in the North York Moors


Calendar of Events


April


Boots and Steam Walking Festival Pickering


June


Scarborough Festival of Cycling Scarborough


National Road Race Championships Ampleforth Abbey and College


July


Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Challenge Norton College


October UK Pro Surf Tour and surf, skate & BMX Festival North Bay, Scarborough Event TBC


November


Dalby 10k Dash Dalby Forest


For other events in the area and to fi nd out more, go to yorkshire.com/events


Ideal Biking Territory...


CYCLING


Winding empty roads, old droving trails, disused railway lines, twisting technical singletrack and forest tracks all waiting to be discovered.


On the Moor to Sea Cycle Trail you can choose from eleven linear routes or take a few days and cycle the entire length, which links the historic towns of Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Great Ayton.


Or how about the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route, taking in the gently undulating hills and picture postcard villages of the Wolds.


England’s largest trail centre, Dalby Forest, has an award winning visitor centre and a vast network of trails, so there’s something for all skill levels.


If you love Dalby, you’ll want to check out Guisborough and Boltby Forest too.


Outside the forests, the North York Moors National Park is prime mountain biking country, with over 500 miles of bridleways, byways and green lanes to explore, all in remote, unspoilt countryside. The Moors are famous for having some of the best singletrack and technical trails in England, interspaced with


Moor to Sea Cycle Trail – Scarborough to Whitby


The Scarborough to Whitby Railtrail stretch is a mixture of good cinder tracks and some rockier sections - ideal for more adventurous families. Part of National Route1 of the National Cycle Network, it runs alongside the North Yorkshire Heritage Coast for 18 miles.


A Walker's Paradise...


WALKING


Imagine walking across the largest unbroken expanse of wild heather moorland in England or standing on a cliff top looking out across a stunning coastline – this is the natural beauty of the North York Moors, a place great for simply going for a walk.


Enjoy easy coastal walks with towering headlands, sandy beaches and rocky coves and see where Yorkshireman James Cook began his seagoing adventures. There are 18 circular and linear walks taking in the North Sea coastline available to download from www.northseatrail.co.uk


Gaze across the vast natural amphitheatre of the Hole of Horcum, known locally as the "Devil's Punchbowl". Catch the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Pickering to Newtondale and walk through the Hole to serene Levisham. Pickering is a Walkers are Welcome town


Cyclists near Ravenscar © Tony Bartholomew


easier sections. Gems include classic moorland routes around Fylingdales and Rosedale.


New to walking? “Try a trail” bite sized chunks will give you a taster of the Cleveland Way – there’s six available to download from www.yorkshire.com/ nationaltrails. Or if you’re feeling a little more energetic, Trailblaze is a brand-new concept - runners are challenged to complete sections of the Cleveland Way - or the full route, using computerised time mechanisms to record their eff orts.


Cleveland Way


Traditionally starting in Helmsley, the National Trail opens with a long and challenging walk around the western upland fringes of the North York Moors, before following the Heritage Coast from Saltburn down to Filey Brigg.


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© North York Moors National Park Authority


Cleveland Way south of Staithes


Scenery of a diff erent kind can be found in the Howardian Hills, an area designated as one of Outstanding Natural Beauty with far reaching views of soft, rolling hills and a tapestry of arable fi elds, pasture and woodland.


For more information and other walking ideas, go to yorkshire.com/walk


Staithes © Tom Bailey


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