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Route: Yorkshire Three Peaks (United Kingdom)

Submitted by jordaneastwood on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 02:06am
Location
United Kingdom
Distance
24 mi
Vertical Gain
5,500 ft
Description

The Yorkshire Three Peaks route is 24 miles (38.6km), and includes 1585m (5200ft) of ascent.

The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge takes on the peaks of Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, usually in this order, and in under 12 hours. These peaks form part of the Pennine range, and encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge includes:

On 6 January 2022 a variation for triple loop was added at the request of a member of the FKT community. The FKT for the triple is believed to be 23 hours 18 minutes (see link) but is not yet listed here.

https://www.threepeakschallenge.net/three-peaks-challenge-records/

GPS Track
Yorkshire_3_peaks_double_ 4.gpx3.43 MB
activity_5124092120 3.gpx4.4 MB

FKTs

Comments

Kaydee
Tue, 09/30/2025 - 10:44am

This is a popular challenge, with info on the Yorkshire Dales National Park Site along with Komoot and Strava and a bunch of other sites that host it as a guided hiking challenge, so might be difficult to keep up to date with the current FKTs! I wanted to point out the Strava segments since these are probably where the current FKTs are:

  • Strava segment "Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge official" doesn't close the loop so it's missing ~0.75mi/1.2km (maybe because of Strava's hidden start and end point settings?) but has times quite a bit faster than the ones listed here so far - much faster than the missing bit would account for, so probably looking at their full activities would confirm.
  • There's also a variation Strava segment "Y3P (inc. 2023 Old Ings loop)" which is a slightly different route but still hits all 3 peaks in ~24mi and has even faster FKTs.

Kaydee
Tue, 09/30/2025 - 10:45am

This is a popular challenge, with info on the Yorkshire Dales National Park Site along with Komoot and Strava and a bunch of other sites that host it as a guided hiking challenge, so might be difficult to keep up to date with the current FKTs! I wanted to point out the Strava segments since these are probably where the current FKTs are:

  • Strava segment "Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge official" doesn't close the loop so it's missing ~0.75mi/1.2km (maybe because of Strava's hidden start and end point settings?) but has times quite a bit faster than the ones listed here so far - much faster than the missing bit would account for, so probably looking at their full activities would confirm.
  • There's also a variation Strava segment "Y3P (inc. 2023 Old Ings loop)" which is a slightly different route but still hits all 3 peaks in ~24mi and has even faster FKTs.