Dentdale offers some of the finest walking in the Yorkshire Dales. Whether a pleasant riverside ramble or a challenging ascent of one of the four fells over 2000 feet, Dentdale has something for walkers of all age, agility or preference.
Here you can find links to 20 walks throughout the dale. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have problems with any of the links or would like to suggest walks featured on other websites.
Please follow the Countryside Code when out walking in Dentdale or anywhere else, especially:
Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter home.
Keep dogs under effective control.
OS maps and the handy, pocket-sized Yellow Walk Map ‘Around & About Dent’ covering much of Dentdale (scale 1:16000 or four inches to the mile) can be purchased at Dent Stores (along with homemade cakes and treats as well as freshly baked savouries, all ideal for a mid-walk break).
Remember, you can make use of the Western Dales bus service to and from Dent Station to Sedbergh, which runs along the dale on a Saturday, to complete some of the one-way walks.
Click on the walk title for details.
Walks from Dent village
Distance: 4.5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Flintergill and Deepdale Circular from Dent
Distance: 5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 6 miles
Walk type: Circular
Rise Hill (also known as Aye Gill Pike)
Distance: 6.5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 7 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 7.5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 9 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 10 miles
Walk type: Circular
Dent to Kirkby Lonsdale over Middleton Fells
Distance: 11 miles
Walk type: One-way
Lower Dentdale (Sedbergh and back)
Distance: 11.5 miles
Walk type: Circular
Distance: 12 miles
Walk type: Circular
Gragareth and Great Coum from Dent to Ingleton
Distance: 12.5 miles
Walk type: One-way
Distance: 25 miles
Walk type: Circular
Walks from Dent Station
Dent Station to Dent via Dales Way
Distance: 5 miles
Walk type: One-way
Rise Hill from Dent Station to Dent village
Distance: 9 miles
Walk type: One-way
Dent Station to Sedbergh via Dales Way
Distance: 10 miles
Walk type: One-way
Great Knoutberry via Arten Gll
Distance: 6 miles
Walk type: Circular
Other walks
Distance: 3.5 miles
Walk type: Circular from near Cowgill
Distance: 12.5 miles
Walk type: Circular from near Cowgill
Ribblehead to Dent via Whernside, Great Coum and Crag Hill
Distance: 11.5 miles
Walk type: One-way from Ribblehead