Discover a collection of dog-friendly farm stays across the Yorkshire Dales, including cosy cottages, historic barn conversions, spacious farmhouses, charming lodges, shepherd’s huts, and glamping pods. With easy access to miles of scenic countryside walks, new scents to explore, from hedgerows to animal trails, and open fires perfect for curling up beside, a working farm holiday is a treat for both you and your four-legged friend.
The Yorkshire Dales is outstanding dog walking country with open landscapes, waymarked paths, and rich with varied terrain that keeps dogs interested and owners happy. The limestone scenery of Wharfedale, Swaledale, and Wensleydale offers everything from riverside meadow paths and heather moorlands to rough pasture and fell walking on the high ground above the valley heads, with ancient drove roads and green lanes connecting the dales in ways that make multi-day walking routes easy to plan. The Three Peaks, Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough, are all on open access land and can be tackled with dogs of the right fitness level. Farm stays in the Dales put you directly in the heart of this landscape, on farms that have been worked for centuries and whose dry stone wall boundaries and ancients barns are as much a part of the scenery as the hills themselves. Curlews, lapwings, and skylarks nest on the higher ground in spring and early summer, so dogs must be kept under close control in these areas and on leads around all livestock.
