Extra Summer Bus Services in the Yorkshire Dales

Regular all-year round bus services in the Yorkshire Dales are supplemented with additional routes in the Summer months (normally between Easter or mid-May and September/October), most of these running on Sundays and Bank Holidays only, with a few extra buses on other days.

The summer season network map is available here (PDF file).

The following seasonal services are now running for summer 2021:

Summer Saturdays 

• DalesBus 59: Harrogate - Bolton Bridge - Skipton
• DalesBus 74: Bradford - Ilkley - Bolton Bridge - Burnsall - Grassington
• DalesBus 75: Skipton - Malham - Malham Tarn - Settle

Summer Sundays and Bank Holidays 

• Nidderdale DalesBus 24: Harrogate - Pateley Bridge  (runs on Monday to Saturday all year)
• Craven Connection 580/581: Skipton - Settle - Clapham - Ingleton - Kirkby Lonsdale   (runs on Monday to Saturday all year)
• Nidderdale DalesBus 821: Keighley - Shipley - Otley - Washburn Valley - Pateley Bridge - Ramsgill - Lofthouse - Scar House 
• DalesBus 822: York - Ripon - Fountains Abbey - Pateley Bridge - Grassington 
• Eastern DalesBus 825: York - Harrogate - Ripley - Brimham Rocks - Fountains Abbey - Kirkby Malzeard - Masham - Richmond
• Eastern DalesBus 829: Richmond - Bedale (not Bank Holidays)
• Northern DalesBus 830: Preston - Lancaster - Ingleton - Ribblehead - Hawes - Reeth - Richmond (not Bank Holidays)​
• Northern DalesBus 831: Middlesbrough - Darlington - Richmond - Reeth - Hawes
• Cravenlink 873 884: Bradford - Shipley - Ilkley - Skipton - Malham  (runs between Ilkley and Skipton all year)
• Wharfedale DalesBus 874:  Wetherby - Leeds - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington - Buckden
• Wharfedale DalesBus 875:  Leeds - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington - Buckden - Aysgarth - Hawes (runs between Leeds and Buckden all year)
• Malham DalesBus 881: Lancaster - Slaidburn - Settle - Malham Tarn - Malham

Summer Wednesdays (until 27th October 2021)

• Western Dales Bus S3: Dent - Sedbergh - Garsdale - Hawes