Nature & views
Waterfalls and packhorse bridges, steam engines and abbey ruins, tea gardens and moorland viewpoints. Filter by type or by village.
Falling Foss and Midge Hall
A waterfall dropping some 30 feet into a wooded gorge, with a tea garden in a woodsman's cottage beside it and a hermit's cave nearby.
Mallyan Spout
The national park's best-known waterfall, a 70-foot curtain of water in a wooded gorge below Goathland.
Arncliffe Wood
Ancient oak woodland along the Esk, threaded by medieval paved trods, and carpeted with bluebells in May.
Danby Beacon
A 299-metre moorland summit with a replica fire beacon and views across the valley to the sea.
Glaisdale Rigg
A high moorland ridge above Glaisdale with wide views over the valley and some of the darkest night skies in England.
Saltwick Bay
A dramatic bay of rock ledges, fossils and shipwreck remains beneath the cliffs south of the abbey.
Sleights Moor and Blue Bank
The famous viewpoint on the Whitby to Pickering road, looking down the Esk Valley to the sea.
Thomason Foss
A pretty waterfall in a wooded gorge a few minutes' walk from the Birch Hall Inn at Beck Hole.