Cycle routes

Click on route title for full details of each ride.

Route 64 OFF ROAD, Hampsthwaite, Cayton Gill, Ripley - ( 24 km / 15 miles )
Start beside Hampsthwaite Memorial Hall (drive or cycle to get there). To Birstwith, bridleways virtually all the way to Shaw Mills and Bishop Thornton. To Cayton Gill, further bridletracks to Ripley,...

Route 63 OFF ROAD Harewood, East Keswick, Wetherby - ( 48 km / 30 miles )
Leave Hornbeam Park by the new footbridge over railway. After 100m, turn L along cycle path, down steep hill to Crimple Valley, and turn R at bottom. Until bridge has been rebuilt over River Crimple...

Route 62 Bramhope and Otley - ( 72 km / 45 miles )
Kirkby Overblow. Short stretch A61. Harewood Bridge. Harewood Estate. Join Weardley Road. Ride towards Eccup. Head towards Bramhope via Blackhill farm. A660 to Bramhope. Through village. Towards...

Route 61 'Mystery tour' - ( 72 km / 45 miles )
1 dam, 2 fords, 3 x 1in4 hills, 4 very small bits of busy road, 5 gates and a small section of track you might want to walk, plus a cafe full of trains. Challenging, excellent views Little Alms Cliff,...

Route 60 OFF ROAD Farnham, S. Stainley, Ripley 3-3.5 hours - ( 40 km / 25 miles )
Hornbeam, Claro Road, Dragon Bridge, Bilton Lane, Beryl Burton Way to Knaresborough, on road to Farnham. Turn right in Farnham at village green, tarmac ends at 1km, continue on track and over hill...

Route 59 Fewston - ( 42 km / 26 miles )
Beckwithshaw, Little Alms Cliff, down hill to B6451, R and first L down to Swinsty and Fewston reservoir. Cross bridge and straight on keeping reservoir on left, until crossing longer bridge across...

Route 58 Masham and Snape - ( 96 km / 60 miles )
Undulating ride. Several potential cafe stops. Forest Moor, Knaresborough, Abbey Road, Copgrove, Bishop Monkton, Ripon (Sun Parlour cafe). Studley Road, Galphay, Kirkby Malzeard, Grewelthorpe, Masham...

Route 57 High Birstwith with extra loop - ( 80 km / 50 miles )
Hilly, excellent views. Burn Bridge to A61, extra care. R over roundabout and L Walton Head Lane. Kirkby Overblow, Dunkeswick, Leathley, Lindley, Stainburn Woods, Little Alms Cliff, Norwood, R on B6451...

Route 56 Ilkley - ( 72 km / 45 miles )
Beckwithshaw, Moor Park, Little Alms Cliff, Fewston, Timble, Askwith. Cafe stop in Ilkley. Return via Otley, then back either via Farnley or Castley.

Route 55 High Birstwith - ( 40 km / 25 miles )
Hilly, excellent views. Hornbeam, Beckwithshaw, R to Little Alms Cliff, Norwood, R on B6451 to A59 crossing (extra care). R on Menwith Hill Road, Swarcliffe, New Road, Clapham Green, Hampsthwaite,...

Disclaimer:
All rides are at your own risk. Please ensure that you have your own third party insurance (check your house insurance) and consider CTC membership.
All riders under eighteen must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.