outdoor adventure

Get away from the routine of daily life: come to Pennine Yorkshire for a taste of adventure.

Our gritstone outcrops and old quarry faces offer good climbing. The Cow and Calf rocks at Ilkley Moor are particularly well-known. Further south, Pule Hill near Marsden offers more than seventy routes. Widdop (north of Hebden Bridge) has forty routes, whilst Earl Crag on the moors west of Keighley is considered by some to be Yorkshire's finest gritstone cliffs.

For experienced canoeists, the whitewater and slalom course on the river Calder at Sowerby Bridge is a favourite, as is the river Wharfe near Ilkley.

Pennine Yorkshire's moors are the playground for a growing number of fell runners. Long-established races include Reservoir Bogs (Mytholmroyd), Holme Moss, the Ilkley fell race, and Shepherd's Skyline (Todmorden).