Walks with Parks:
The Yorkshire Dales National Park
Walks with Play Parks in and around the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Are you looking for walks with play parks in the Yorkshire Dales?
Then welcome to our Yorkshire Dales National Park walks page! Here, you’ll find all our walks that feature play parks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park! So whether you’re headed to Wensleydale, Swaledale, Wharfedale, Dentdale or elsewhere, we’ve got your play park needs covered!
If you’re looking for play parks in the Nidderdale area, or perhaps in some of the areas that lie just outside the National Park, then try heading to the Walks with Play Parks menu page!
Our walks don’t just feature play parks though! You’ll find waterfalls, walks to the top of some of the highest peaks in the Dales, walks to caves and more! All of which feature play parks!
Walk Difficulty Ratings
All of our tried and tested kid friendly walks have been divided into 3 categories dependant on difficulty, length and terrain:
⭐ Little Monkeys:
Walks suitable for younger children. Shorter length walks with occasional pushchair access.
⭐⭐ Little Adventurers:
Walks suitable for pre-schoolers. Medium length/ difficulty walks.
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers:
Walks suitable for older children. Longer length walks with some difficult terrain.
Walks at a Glimpse
Here is our quick look key so you can identify what each walk has without taking too long!
👶 Suitable for Pushchairs
🎒 Suitable for Carriers
🚘 Car Park/ On Street Parking
🚌 Public Transport Links
🐶 Dog Friendly
🥾 Sturdy Footwear or Wellies
🧒 A park or play area
🦆 Ducks to Feed
💦 Water play/ paddle/ swim
✨ Cool history or geology
👻 Legendary Story
🌳 Walking Games
Burnsall to Hebden Circular
📍 Burnsall to Hebden Circular
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
📏 Circular walk 3.5 - 4 miles
🥾🎒🚘👻🧒💦🌳🐶
This super circular starts and ends at the Red Lion Pub in Burnsall. It heads past paddling spots, swim spots, the stunning Loup Scar to yet ANOTHER pub or a fantastic tearoom in Hebden, it has a play area and more!
Jubilee and Victoria Caves Settle
📍 Settle, Ribblesdale, Yorkshire Dales South Central
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
🥾🚘🎒✨🌳🧒🚌🐶
This walk is just brilliant. One of my favourite walks EVER! I like to call it…. The One With All The Caves (sorry, Friends reference!)
But it really DOES have all the caves! Jubilee Cave, Victoria Cave and mini caves with no name! So take your headtorch and become a true explorer!
Reeth Stepping Stones
⭐⭐ Little Adventurers
📍 Reeth, Swaledale, North Eastern Yorkshire Dales
🚘🎒🥾💦🍦🧒🌳🚌🐶
📏 Under 3 miles circular
We love a good old fashioned stepping stones walk! This one is located in Swaledale in the Norther reaches of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The river is super shallow around them so it’s a great place for a paddle and a picnic too! In Reeth, you’ll find a park as well as pubs and an ice cream parlour too!
Kettlewell Stepping Stones
📍 Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale, The Yorkshire Dales
⭐⭐ Little Adventurers
🚘🥾💦🧒🌳🐶🚌
📏 2 miles circular walk
We love Kettlewell! Located in the heart of Wharfedale in the Yorkshire Dales this walk will take you on a short walk to the stepping stones and back. It’s a great walk for a Summer’s Day with places to get down to the water’s edge to splash!
Grassington
Ghaistrill’s Strid and Grass Woods
📍 Grassington, Yorkshire Dales, Wharfedale
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
🥾🚘🎒🧒👻✨🌳🚌🐶
📏 4 miles circular walk
Woodland and Water. We think that is a perfect walk combination!
This circular walk starts and ends in the beautiful Dales town of Grassington, where you’ll also find a play park with skate ramps and plenty of places to eat and drink afterwards!
Linton Falls and Stepping Stones
📍 Linton, Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales South East
⭐⭐ Little Adventurers
🚘🥾💦🎒✨🌳👻🧒🐶🚌
📏 2 miles circular walk
Linton Falls are a super popular stop off and are spectacular after heavy rain! Although…. if you do this walk after heavy rain, you’ll probably not get over the stepping stones!
This fantastic circular takes you from Linton Falls to the stepping stones and back!
Gaping Gill, Ingleborough
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
💦🚘🥾🎒🌳✨🧒🐶🚌
📏 8 miles linear (there and back again) walk
📍 Clapham, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales National Park
A walk with a wow factor!
This spectacular walk will take you along the Ingleborough Estate Nature Trail, past Ingleborough Show Cave, through Trow Gill and to an epic paddle spot just underneath one of the Yorkshire 3 peaks Ingleborough. But not just that, you can watch the beck disappear underground into Gaping Gill. And if all else fails, there’s a park at the end!
Cauldron Falls, West Burton
📍 West Burton, Wensleydale, The Yorkshire Dales
⭐ Little Monkeys / ⭐⭐ Little Adventurers
🚘🥾🎒/ 👶🧒💦🌳🐶🚌
📏 Circular walk, less than 2 miles
Cauldron Falls is a stunning waterfall found at the top of another set of wonderful waterfalls in a beautifully wooded clearing in Wensleydale.
This walk offers a super short pushchair option (which is a really a walk to the waterfalls and back) or a longer version. Plus, it has a play area (with a pub opposite!) WINNER!
Aysgill Force Waterfall
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
📍 Gayle, near Hawes, Wensleydale, the Yorkshire Dales
🚘🥾🎒🦆🚜💦🧒🚌🐶
📏 Circular walk, 4 miles
This 40 foot wonderful waterfall is well worth the walk from Hawes, where there is plenty of kid friendly stuff to do, including a PARK!
You’ll love it!
Kettlewell to Starbotton
📍 Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
🥾🎒🚘💦🧒🌳🚌🐶
📏 Circular walk, 4.5 miles
This circular walk from Kettlewell to Starbotton is about 4.5 miles and starts and ends with ice cream and a park! (Oh and the pub….. three pubs!)
There are paddle spots, a park and it’s dog friendly too!
West Burton to Aysgarth Circular
📍 West Burton, Wensleydale Yorkshire Dales National Park Central
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
📏 Circular walk, 5.5 miles
🥾🎒🚘💦🌳🚌🐶
This fab circular wander starts and ends at the pub and play park, has two famous waterfalls and has the option for a pub stop in the middle too!
So if you love a wander with waterfalls, play park and pubs and VIEWS! Then this is the one for you!
Sedbergh’s Secret Waterfall
📍 Sedbergh, Westmoreland Dales, Cumbria
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
📏 Circular walk 2-3 miles
🥾🎒🚘🧒💦🌳🐶
This fab circular walk starts and ends in the town centre of Sedbergh and features the stunning Settlebeck Gill, where you’ll find perfect plunge pools for stone throwing and it’s secret waterfall. Easy to spot from afar, will you get up close?
Oh also…. park. There’s a play park and ice cream!
Flintergill, Dent
📍 Dent, Cumbria, Western Yorkshire Dales National Park
⭐⭐⭐ Superstar Hikers
📏 Circular walk 6 miles
🥾🎒🚘🚌🧒✨👻💦🌳🐶
This fab circular walk starts and ends in the village of Dent. The walk is PACKED full of cool stuff for the kids, it features a waterfall, a small farming museum, ruins, paddle spots, ice cream, a park AND a vampire stone! You’ll have to read more about that in the walk details!
Scroll using the arrows for all our Family Friendly Walks
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Waterfall Walks
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Pushchair Friendly
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Peak Bagging Walks
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Walks with Play Parks
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Organised by Location
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Woodland Walks
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Reservoir Walks
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Bolton Abbey Estate Walks
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Walks Under 2 Miles
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