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Green lanes in the North York Moors

64% of the lanes we’ve mapped inside the North York Moors are open to motorcycles. Here’s where they are, what’s restricted, and the longest ones to ride.

96lanes open to motorcycles*
73 kmof lane open to motorcycles*
50restricted byways, no motors
1named lanes with a restriction

*BOATs and UCRs inside the park boundary, excluding sections under a permanent or current closure. Legal status changes, check before you ride.

Built automatically from council rights of way records, traffic orders and OpenStreetMap data, and checked by Holloway. How we check it

Every mapped lane in the park

Inside the real park boundary. Numbers match the longest lanes list below. Tap the key to show or hide a layer.

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What you can ride

150 mapped lanes and byways inside the boundary, by legal type.

94%unsurfaced, where the surface is known
4sections closed to motor vehicles
1scenic road or pass

Difficulty

  • 26 Easy
  • 6 Hard
  • 68 Not graded yet

All unridden, graded on OpenStreetMap surface data only.

Longest open lanes

Named lanes open to motorcycles, each measured end to end across all its mapped sections.

  1. 1
    BOATUCRUnsurfacedLikely hard, unridden
  2. 2
    UCRUnsurfaced
  3. 3
    UCRUnsurfaced
  4. 4
    UCRUnsurfaced
  5. 5
    UCRUnsurfaced
  6. 6
    BOATUnsurfacedLikely easy, unridden
  7. 7
    BOATUnsurfaced
  8. 8
    UCRUnsurfaced

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Closures and restrictions

Named lanes inside the park with a restriction we’ve found. Tap one for the details.

Plus 8 unnamed sections with a restriction, shown in red on the map above.

A snapshot, not a live feed. Researched from council and park authority orders, last built 13 November 2026. Restrictions change, so check each lane’s current status in the app, or with its Legal Status Search, before you ride.

Scenic roads and passes

Ordinary paved roads worth riding for their own sake, no rights of way question at all.

Blakey Ridge

Questions riders ask

Can you ride green lanes in the North York Moors?

Yes, on lanes with the right legal status. We've mapped 96 BOATs and UCRs inside the North York Moors that are open to motorcycles, about 73 km in total. Another 50 restricted byways inside the park are for walkers, cyclists and horse riders only.

Are any green lanes in the North York Moors closed?

Some are. We've researched 1 named lane inside the North York Moors with a permanent, seasonal or temporary restriction, listed on this page. The list is a snapshot, not a live feed, so always check a lane's current status before you ride.

What is the longest green lane in the North York Moors?

Of the named lanes open to motorcycles, Rudland Rigg is the longest we've mapped inside the park, at about 16 km.

Are there GPX routes for the North York Moors?

Not a ready-made one yet. You can build your own from the North York Moors's lanes with Holloway Premium's route planner and export it as a GPX file.

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Lane data from OpenStreetMap contributors and council rights of way records. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Park boundary © Natural England / Natural Resources Wales, via OpenStreetMap, OGL. Reference only: legal status changes, check signage and current Traffic Regulation Orders before riding. How we check this data.

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