Great Ayton · 2 checked & stamped
Boots on. These are the Great Ayton walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
A short, steady climb from the free Gribdale Gate car park up through larch woods to the 60-foot obelisk of 1827 on Easby Moor, raised to the explorer who grew up in Great Ayton below. Views sweep to Roseberry Topping and across the Cleveland plain, and a longer circuit links both summits via the Cleveland Way. Popular with dog walkers, but livestock graze along the trail, so leads on at times.
The unmistakable shark-fin summit of the North York Moors, a 1.5-mile climb each way from the National Trust car park at Newton-under-Roseberry, through Newton Wood's oaks and up a well-pitched stone path to 320 metres of all-round views. The Trust rates it a three-pawprint dog destination: dogs welcome in all areas under close control, on a short lead around the sheep that graze the slopes. Steep and rocky near the top - sure-footed dogs only in wet weather.
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