Walk · North Yorkshire

Captain Cook's Monument

Great Ayton
N 176 YD
2MILES
1h 10mON FOOT
160mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 5%

Route diagram, drawn from the recorded track — for the shape of the walk, not for navigation. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

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 SMALL PRINTLeads where livestock graze along the route

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.4890, -1.0928
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.VISITGREATAYTON.COM/WHAT-TO-DO-IN-GREAT-AYTON/WALK/CAPTAIN-COOKS-MONUMENT
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