The Dales Trail is a 320km / 200 mile off-road adventure that connects tracks of gravel, peat and stone within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The start line is in Settle

Self supported bikepacking event on 5th - 7th September 2025

 

10 Highlights:

Drovers Lanes in Malhamdale

Limestone track on the slopes of Ingleborough

Epic moorland singletrack through Bowderdale in the Howgill Fells

Quiet lanes across the Westmorland Dales

Descent from Tan Hill

Miners tracks to Blakethwaite Mill in Gunnerside, Upper Swaledale

Double track to Dent’s Houses, Apedale

Cam High Road and Ribblehead Viaduct

Podgill Viaduct, Eden Valley

Fremington Edge

 

6,600 metres / 22,000 feet of climbing

 
 
 

3 Peaks Cycles, Settle

 
 
 
 
 

Community Partners

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)