Our longstanding and much-loved annual guide to the Yorkshire Dales National Park is packed full of features and useful information to help you discover this stunning part of the world – and it’s FREE!
2026 highlights
- Find out why the National Park was chosen for the latest film adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – the Scheduled Monument of Old Gang lead mines provides a remote and suitably atmospheric backdrop for the destructive romance of Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi).
- Celebrate 150 years of passenger travel on the historic Settle-Carlisle railway line with our Ribblehead Heritage Trail – take a walk back in time to the construction of imposing Ribblehead Viaduct, a feat of Victorian engineering.
- Experience the Dales – gaze up at dark skies, taste delicious food and drink (of course including cheese!), try something new, join an expert for a guided walk or underground tour, and delve into Hands-on History events for young visitors.
- This edition marks the launch of the UK’s newly designated Coast to Coast Path National Trail, 50 years after it was created by writer and walker Alfred Wainwright
- Discover some of the National Park’s rare and special plants and animals and where they can be found
- Plan your trip – where to start, how to get here & around, and a detailed map
- Plus… a competition to win a fabulous weekend break.
Read all about it
You can pick up a copy of The Visitor 2026 at Aysgarth Falls, Grassington, Hawes and Malham National Park Visitor Centres, or browse this and previous editions online.
Past editions of The Visitor magazine are available to download here.
Events listing
If you are organising an event you can add it for free at any time to our online event listings.
Advertising
With a huge annual print run of 80,000 copies and nationwide distribution, The Visitor is a great place to promote your business.
This highly successful, long-standing publication, which has kept visitors informed since 1981, changed to a brand new, beautifully designed magazine format in 2017. This has been very positively received as the new size racks well and can be clearly seen in Tourist Information Centres (TIC).
The magazine is distributed FREE nationally via the TIC network and locally through all National Park Visitor Centres, B&Bs, visitor attractions and many other outlets.
Packed with useful information for visitors, including visitor centre locations, car parking and cash points, it contains a huge events section and informative centre-spread map.
What our advertisers think…
“We’re very long-standing, annual advertisers in The Visitor as it’s the perfect publication for promoting our Skipton restaurants.”
Katie Davison, Bizzie Lizzie’s
“It’s great to have such an informative publication in the area – not just for visitors, but residents use it, too. We like to advertise in it as we feel it reaches so many people.”
Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Masham Sheep Fair
“The Visitor is a great magazine, highlighting all that is good about the Yorkshire Dales. Drystone walls form the fabric of the Dales, so we are pleased to advertise our walling training courses in a magazine dedicated to the area.”
John Pridmore, Yorkshire Dry Stone Walling Guild
“We have advertised in The Visitor for over thirty years. The switch to magazine format is a significant improvement to this key Yorkshire Dales publication. We are delighted with the new look.”
William Bagshaw, Managing Director, White Scar Cave
“Without a doubt, advertising in The Visitor has proved to be a highly effective way of attracting those coming to see the Yorkshire Dales National Park to visit us at Parcevall Hall Gardens.”
John Martin, Parcevall Hall Gardens
To find out more about advertising your business and to discuss rates, please contact Sheila Ward at publishers Bow House Digital on 01347 821928 or sheila@bowhouse.co.uk. Advert design is included in the price.
More details
If you have any queries or would like to know more about The Visitor, please contact the editor, Sarah Nicholson:
Write to: Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Colvend, Hebden Road, Grassington, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 5LB
Call: 01756 751618
Email: sarah.nicholson@yorkshiredales.org.uk
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