Tour of the Dales self guided holiday

This self guided package starts from our base Dales Bike Centre, Swaledale.  The Tour of the Dales Self Guided trip is a 3 day point to point ride. The riding takes in some of the best mountain biking the Yorkshire Dales has to offer, riding all manner of terrain, exploring some real back country trails and taking in the most amazing views.  It's a tour we carefully strung together putting all our favourite sections of trail and rides into one big route.  This is a challenging tour with days that average 50 - 65 km and between 1000 – 1500 metres of climbing per day, mainly off-road. We think this is one of the best mountain bike routes in the country for scenery, variety of trails an pure back country mountain biking. 

Tour Outline - Arrive at Dales Bike Centre, stay overnight allowing time to get kitted up and prepared ready for a good start the following morning. Allow us to fit the handlebar mounted Satmap GPS with your route uploaded and give you training on how to use it. Set off on your 3 day journey around the Yorkshire Dales National Park.  Three days of awesome riding later arrive back at Dales Bike Centre late afternoon to clean up, eat cake, buy a T-shirt and head home

Accommodation
Accommodation is included and booked in advance, first night at Dales Bike Centre the others in star rated guesthouses or local pubs dependant on group size, based on two people sharing a room. All have the all important secure bike storage and bike wash facilities.

Eat & Drink Yorkshire
The Yorkshire Dales have many of the best places to eat and drink in Yorkshire. We know! So we’ll book your table ahead for you and even recommend a beer you must try. You’ll be eating at a local hotel or pub just a short stroll from your accommodation.

Logistics:
We will provide each group a Satmap GPS with the route uploaded and give some training on how to use it. Also provided a Tour Pack which includes route maps, itenerary, contacts and all the information you need.  Parking is easily solved, leave your vehicle at the start/finish our base Dales Bike Centre. Your bags are transferred by us as well as a servicebox and workstand, accommodation booked, tables reserved we'll even tell you which ale to sample!

Bookings:
Due to this tour being one night stays at our accommodation friends it's only available midweek, weekend nights are nearly always only available as a two night stay.  If you are only able to do a long weekend then our Wharefdale Relay Self Guided Tour will be perfect.  These trips are only available for groups of 6 or more. Please enquire with a couple of date options if possible, leave it with us for a little while and we’ll build and book your Self-Guided trip for you

If you prefer to have a guided ride then we run this trip as a 5 day and 3 day guided mountain biking holiday - Take a look at the Guided Mountain Bike Holidays page of our website