Source to Sea Trail

The Source to Sea Trail connects bridleways, drovers lanes, coffin roads, canal towpaths, reclaimed railway lines, forest tracks, moorland singletrack and quiet B roads along ten of Yorkshire’s finest rivers: Esk, Derwent, Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharfe, Skirfare, Aire, Ouse and the Calder. We’ve called this the Source to Sea Trail as it takes you from the Pennine moors where many of our rivers begin and many miles later onto the Yorkshire coast and then over the Humber Estuary where the rivers flow into the body of the North Sea. And back to the starting line in Hebden Bridge. This is a unique and inspiring bikepacking adventure as no other trail into the world traces the flow of rivers in one region across such a wide and varied landscape. The trail is 909kms long with 12,950 meters of climbing. NB: There is a 750km ‘short’ version of this trail that we will use on the May event that goes due south from Selby to Castleford and then due west back to Hebden Bridge and as such misses out the eastern loop that passes over the Humber estuary.