For more information on the above or any other feature of the National Park, please see the About the Dales section of the website.
- The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established in 1954.
- It is one of 15 National Parks in the UK.
- 22,798 people live in the National Park (Office of National Statistics 2021).
- It covers 2,179km2 (841m2).
- It contains 2,628kms of footpaths and 618kms of bridleways.
- There are 1,090 farms in the National Park
- The National Park has a housing stock of 13,094 buildings, of which just over 21 per cent are second or holiday homes (Office of National Statistics 2021).
- 5.1 million visitors, spending 6.7 million days here (2023). 88% of people come for the day with 12% being staying visitors.
- There is a species of moss in the Yorkshire Dales that grows nowhere else in the world.
- There is a species of bat (the brown long-eared bat) seen in the Dales that has ears that are three quarters the length of its head and body.
- There are more than 1,000 species of moths, around 100 species of nesting birds, over 25 species of butterflies, more than 30 species of mammals and hundreds of plant species in the National Park.
- The National Park has its own Three Peaks – Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent – and thousands of walkers take up the challenge each year of completing the 24.5 mile circular route over them in 12 hours or less.