The Pennine 500 is a bikepacking route through the Pennines, a range of hills and passes along the backbone of the north of England.

The 500km circular route features 9,600 metres of climbing across three loops: southern, central and northern.

Pennine 500 is the first bike trail in England to go ‘there and back again’ along a single chain of hills and so connect tracks and lanes within the folds of the Pennines.

From the Calder Valley to Vindolanda Roman Fort, over the Bowland Knotts and up to High Cup Nick, past Greg’s Hut and the descent from Tan Hill, along the wild River Swale and through Haworth.

Event: Pennine 500

Date: 29th May - 1st June 2027

format: self-supported bikepacking rally

Event Hub: Mytholmroyd community centre

Stats: 500km / 9,600m

Along the rocky ridge line of High Cup Nick, England’s finest U-shaped glaciated valley

Fast flowing greenway on a former railway from Lambley to Alston along the South Tyne

Unique singletrack across the limestone pavement at Great Asby Scar above Orton

Past Vindolanda Roman fort on Stansgate near Hadrian’s Wall

Flowing gravel track along the white waters of the River Swale

Greg’s Hut on Cross Fell, the highest moorland in England

Tracks across the heather on Rombalds Moor above Ilkley

The Old Salt Road in the Bowland Fells above Slaidburn

Packhorse tracks going north from Todmorden

The long descent from the Tan Hill Inn