Public toilets in the Yorkshire Dales

If you're walking up to Malham Cove, chasing waterfalls at Aysgarth or doing the rounds of Grassington and Hawes, the Dales look after you reasonably well in the villages and at the famous beauty spots. Malham, Aysgarth, Grassington, Settle, Reeth and Kettlewell all have public toilets, and almost every National Park car park has a block with an accessible cubicle beside it.

Away from those, the Dales are big, open and quiet, which is the whole point of coming, but it does mean a long walk between conveniences once you're up on Ingleborough or deep in Wensleydale and Swaledale. Sort yourself out in the village before you set off and you won't get caught out.

The map will show you what's open near your walk, handy on a summer weekend when the Three Peaks crowd fills every car park by mid-morning.

Accessibility

Almost all the National Park car park toilets have an accessible cubicle, most opened with a RADAR key, the one at Linton Falls being the exception that has none. There are three Changing Places facilities, all at National Park visitor centres: Grassington, Hawes (at the Dales Countryside Museum) and Malham. The toilet by the Kings Arms at Gunnerside is one of the few accessible ones that doesn't need a RADAR key.

Seasonal

Some village loos reduce hours in winter; the main visitor honeypots and the staffed centres are the safer year-round option.

Where the gaps are

The fells and the long dale-bottom walks have nothing, so treat the village or car park loo as your last stop before heading out.