Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Yorkshire Dales National Park in England from National Geographic. Tidy drystone walls separate green pastures in rolling Yorkshire Dales National Park.

In fact the Yorkshire Dales National Park has 20,000 residents scattered across its 680 square miles. Most of the land is in private ownership – and while we help to care for it, ...

A map of the Yorkshire Dales has been "re-imagined" in the style of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Dan Bell, 25, hopes to draw each of the country's national parks in the same style and recently completed ...

Currently the Dales has the least woodland coverage of England's 10 national parks. A 10-year strategy to increase its woodland has been revealed by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority ...

The national park covers 841 sq miles (2,179 sq km) and is home to 24,000 people. It straddles the central Pennines in North Yorkshire and Cumbria, and also includes an area of Lancashire.

The Yorkshire Dales is swallowing up territory in Cumbria, too, as part of a 188-mile extension creating the largest stretch of continuous national park in England ...