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[Closed] car-parking in Swaledale?

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Hopefully riding in Swaledale on sunday, where's best to park the car? Is the parking at the dales Bike Centre?


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 2:35 pm
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It's limited there and, I would suggest, for punters. You can park on the green in Reeth for a quid. Depending on where you are riding there are loads of places you can pull off the road.


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 2:58 pm
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Plenty of places in Swaledale to park up especially at this time of year but they might not have the convenience of having a cafe & shop next to them.

Depends where you intend to ride really, DBC and area is probably best for the Harkerside & Fremington stuff but I've also parked up at Langthwaite (pay & display) and further up the dale at Low Row, Muker and Keld. If you are looking at the Great Pinseat/Gunnerside tracks then Surrender Bridge on the road between Low Row and Langthwaite is a good point. Generally I'd say Gunnerside is about the split point: upstream of that use Muker/Keld; downstream use the Reeth area.


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 3:09 pm
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Second this suggestion...

'If you are looking at the Great Pinseat/Gunnerside tracks then Surrender Bridge on the road between Low Row and Langthwaite is a good point.'

I live in Low Row 🙂

Paul


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 7:21 pm
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You can park in the Dales Centre, but I think you'll be expected to at least spend some money there. Car park's pretty small.


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 7:26 pm
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Plenty of roadside car parking dotted about - up near Grinton Lodge, on the road just south of Langthwaite etc. If you're planning to have some nosh at DBC, then that's an option.


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 8:25 pm
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I live in Low Row

Paul

I hate you. 😉


 
Posted : 11/03/2016 8:35 pm
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I hate you.

🙂 🙂


 
Posted : 12/03/2016 1:02 pm
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Parked at DBC in the end as we were hiring a demo bike for the day, so technically we were customers. 🙂
Ace service from Stu on the bike front and route advice. Still grinning from the descent off Fremington Edge.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 12:35 pm
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for the last 30 or so years, when riding in swaledale we have always parked on the green in reeth. £1 in the hospitality box, and a pint from the black bull.


 
Posted : 14/03/2016 12:42 pm

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