Cycling in Yorkshire
Cycling in Yorkshire offers a huge variety of options, from country lanes to singletrack.
The region is crisscrossed with national cycleways following old railway tracks, custom built paths and quiet leafy lanes. The trails across the Dales and Moors offer endless cycling possibilities for the adventurous.
You'll also find purpose built mountain bike trails in Stainburn Forest and Dalby Forest, where you can test your skills on Dalby's world class competition route - the challenging waymarked course from April's UCI Mountain Bike Cross Country World Cup is now open for all expert riders to have a go!
So whether you want to bumble or scream, you'll find it cycling in Yorkshire!
Road and family cycling
Try part or all of a way-marked route
- Beginners' cycle routes: inspiration across Yorkshire
- Way of the Roses: A new coast to coast cycle route launching 11 September, from Morecambe to Bridlington, passing through Yorkshire Dales National Park, Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, York and Yorkshire Wolds
- White Rose Cycle Route: Journey from Hull, along the river at York before climbing onto the Moors
- Calder Valley Cycleway: traffic free, easygoing route through the outstanding scenery of the Calder Valley, linking the busy towns of Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Mytholmroyd.
- Moors to Sea Cycle Route: linking Scarborough, Pickering and Great Ayton
- Trans Pennine Trail: an off-road route from Liverpool to Hull, with family friendly sections
- Walney to Wear & Whitby: another coast to coast opportunity
Adventure
Try mountain biking from a number of centres, or strike out on your own.
- Pennine Bridleway: old packhorse routes and tracks across the Peaks, Dales and Pennines. Download day rides to get a taster of the trail
- Dales and Moors mountain biking: a multitude of bridleways, tracks and green lanes
- Forest mountain biking: check out Dalby, Guisborough and Stainburn Forest, near Otley, for purpose built XC trails
- Dixon's Hollow Pace Bike Park, Dalby: try the 2011 UCI Mountain Bike Cross-Country World Cup course, ride the freestyle loop, jump the table tops and test your nerve on the skinnies... for the more technically skilled mountain biker
- Mountain bike courses: pick up some tips from the experts and improve your ability
- Off the Rails, Settle: it's downhill all the way on one of these unique rail and bike rides
Don't have a bike?
There are numerous bike hire providers across Yorkshire, including the Dales and Dalby Forest. Find others here, just choose the cycling & mountain biking category.
So go on, explore Yorkshire on a bike!
Cyclists Welcome accommodation
If you're planning a biking break in Yorkshire, look for the Cyclists Welcome logo when booking accommodation. It guarantees that a hotel, B&B, cottage or hostel has extra facilities specifically for cyclists, like water points for washing bikes, lockable storage areas, space for drying outdoor clothes, cycle repair kits and weather news.
Browse Yorkshire's Cyclists Welcome accommodation or choose the Cyclists Welcome box on the accommodation search pages.
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