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The North Yorkshire Moors Ramble is a lovely long-weekend bikepacking loop that uses a mix of singletrack, medieval flagstone paths, forest tracks, and gravel backcountry roads to explore the North Yorkshire Moors National Park and all its diverse landscapes. From the heather-covered sandstone moorlands to stone wall-lined fields to medieval abbeys and ancient bridges, this route offers countless vistas connected in a 200-mile figure-eight...

The North Yorkshire Moors Ramble starts and finishes in the picturesque fishing port of Whitby, famous for its jet jewelry and ruined abbey, the inspiration and setting for Dracula’s landfall in Bram Stoker’s gothic novel. The route comprises a regularly changing mix of moorland track, fast forest road, singletrack, medieval flagstone pathway, former mineral railway, and quiet country roads, including England’s joint steepest climb at 33%.

The upland plateau is bordered to the north and west by the rocky escarpments of the Cleveland and Hambleton Hills, to the east by Jurassic cliffs along the North Sea coast, while to the south the Tabular Hills tumble down to the Vale of Pickering. The figure-eight route takes in the diversity of landscapes the national park has to offer, from the heather-covered sandstone moorland through wooded, steep valley sides to the dry stone wall-lined fields below.