Walks · Walk finder
By Jon Cosson · Updated 6 October 2026
Tell me who is walking, how long you want to be out and how much climbing you fancy, and I will pick out the walks from this guide that suit, with the reasons why each one fits and what to watch for.
Suggestions are drawn only from the walks written up here, using the distances, parking and dog notes on those pages. Where a page does not state something, such as total ascent, you will be told that rather than given a guess.
Quick, straight answers to the questions visitors ask most. Each one links through to the fuller guide.
The Hole of Horcum is a vast natural amphitheatre about 400 ft deep off the A169; Roseberry Topping is the distinctive 320 m "Yorkshire Matterhorn" near Great Ayton; the Cleveland Way is the 109-mile National Trail looping from Helmsley around the moors to the coast.
Walks on the moors →Outstanding, over 1,400 miles of paths, from the 109-mile Cleveland Way (Helmsley to Filey) to countless short circuits. Classics include the Hole of Horcum, Roseberry Topping, Mallyan Spout at Goathland and the Helmsley–Rievaulx Abbey walk.
Walks on the moors →Round Hill on Urra Moor, at 454 metres (1,490 feet). It sits on the Cleveland Way and the Lyke Wake Walk above Bilsdale, and the usual approach is the roughly three-kilometre climb from the Clay Bank car park.
Walks on the moors →Sutton Bank ("the finest view in England"), the Hole of Horcum, Roseberry Topping, the Blakey Ridge road across the high moor, and the cliff tops of the Cleveland Way on the coast.
Walks on the moors →Sutton Bank and the Kilburn White Horse for sunset over the Vale of York, the heather moors and the Hole of Horcum in late summer, Whitby Abbey and harbour, and Roseberry Topping at dawn.
Walks on the moors →The Farndale daffodil walk (spring), the level paths around Sutton Bank and the Kilburn White Horse, the Goathland-to-Grosmont rail trail, and gentle riverside strolls at Thornton-le-Dale.
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