Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Eight and a half miles onto the open top with 230 metres of ascent and the best part of four hours, climbing past Mallyan Spout and out along Two Howes Rigg to the Bronze Age cairn at Simon Howe; the moor path is peat and it holds standing water for weeks, so gaiters or a willingness to get wet are needed. It starts on Goathland village green, five minutes from Goathland station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which makes this one of the few genuinely car-free moor walks in the park. West Beck below Mallyan Spout gives a deep pool for swimming and the moor is wide open ground, but this is grouse moor grazed by hardy sheep and ground-nesting curlew, golden plover and lapwing use it, so leads are required on the open moor from 1 March to 31 July.
A 7.8-mile circuit with 180 metres of ascent and around three and a half hours, dropping to Beck Hole, following the 1836 rail trail down to Grosmont and climbing back over the fields; the rail trail is a firm cinder bed but the return above Green End is boggy at the field corners. Start on Goathland village green, where the roadside parking fills by ten on a summer weekend, or ride up on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Grosmont and walk the loop back downhill. The Murk Esk runs alongside for miles and there are safe places to get in, the rail trail is wide and traffic-free, but sheep wander freely across the green and the moor road at Goathland and there are two working level crossings at Grosmont.
A 2.8-mile circular from Goathland village to Mallyan Spout, at 70 feet the tallest waterfall in the North York Moors, then on through the wooded West Beck valley to the hamlet of Beck Hole and back along the old 1836 railway trackbed. Keep dogs on leads around the sheep that roam Goathland's greens and the surrounding pasture; the riverside stretch is rocky and slippery after rain, with some steep steps. The Birch Hall Inn at Beck Hole is the classic halfway treat.
A creeper-covered hotel on Goathland's green, right at the head of the path down to the Mallyan Spout waterfall. The Spout Bar and the gardens are properly dog friendly and serve pub food all day, so you can eat with the dog rather than around it.
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