North York Moors
Pickering up Blakey Ridge past the Lion Inn to the Esk Valley, out to Whitby, and back over the moor on the A169.
- Distance
- 61 miles (98 km)
- Type
- Loop
- Where
- North Yorkshire
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Main roads
From the map
- Longest gap between fuel
- 25 miles
- Fuel stations near the line
- 7
- Curvature
- 100 ° a mile
- Campsites within 2 km
- 31
- The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 1 to mile 27. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
- The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 21 to mile 41, at 141 degrees of turning a mile.
- One motorcycle shop is within 3 km of the line.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Before you go
- Sheep graze unfenced across most of the moor roads.
- This loop deliberately avoids Rosedale Chimney Bank (1 in 3).
On the way
- Pickering
- Hutton-le-Hole
- Blakey Ridge
- Castleton
- Egton Bridge
- Whitby
- Saltersgate
- Pickering
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What to check before you buy coverPlaces to see on the way
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Castleton castle mound
Castle in Danby, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
Whitby East Pier Lighthouse
Lighthouse in Whitby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whitby Abbey
Abbey.
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Pickering Castle
Castle in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0
Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.