Glamping with hot tubs in Yorkshire

Where to base yourself

The Yorkshire Dales are limestone country. Dry stone walls, field barns, and villages like Malham, Hawes and Grassington. Walkers come for the Three Peaks, which are Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-ghent.

The North York Moors are wide open heather moorland with deep green valleys cut into it. A steam railway runs across them from Pickering to Whitby.

The coast runs from Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay down to Scarborough and Filey. Cliffs, fishing villages, fish and chips.

The Wolds, in East Yorkshire, are the quiet option. Rolling chalk hills, hardly any traffic and the landscape David Hockney spent years painting.

Stars from the tub

The Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors were both named International Dark Sky Reserves in December 2020. Away from the towns, the sky is properly black. Pick a pod in the Dales or on the Moors, turn the lights off and give your eyes twenty minutes.

When to go

The heather on the Moors turns purple in late summer, and that’s the week to be there. The coast is busy in July and August. From October the whole county quietens down and a hot tub on a frosty evening comes into its own.

Getting there

The A1(M) runs up the middle of the county and most places are within reach of it. York is on the East Coast Main Line, around two hours from London by train.

Yorkshire is big. The Dales and the coast are on opposite sides of it and the drive between them is a long cross country one, so choose a side and stay there.

Good to know

Most of what’s bookable is in North Yorkshire, which has a page of its own with more on the Dales, the Moors and the coast. Sykes’s count covers North Yorkshire only.

If you’re bringing a dog, the Moors and Dales are sheep country. Our dog friendly page has the questions to ask before you book.

Stock counts were read on 4 October 2026. The facts on this page were last checked on 3 October 2026. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.