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30/8/2024 at 1:10pm
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You don't say where your ultimate destination is, if you have a fixed destination that is. Long time since I've been to the Dales proper, and long before I had the caravan, so memory a little vague on the specifics and only with a solo car.
But, fairly regularly cross Yorkshire from A1 to the Lake District, towing my 6.8m caravan, so familiar with some of the roads and terrain.
Looking at a route planner set to caravan as vehicle, two options are thrown up from Reeth to Muker, the straight line short distance of around 9 miles on B6270, and a longer, 19 mile loop to the north on what appears to be an unclassified road picking up the B6270 and entering Muker from the west. Looking on Google Street View, both routes look 'doable' but neither looks particularly fun in some sections! Depending on your ultimate destination, if you have no need to go that way, personally I'd avoid.
Apart from traffic, especially meeting something coming the other way on a single track road, that sort of terrain throws a few other things at you. It's wild open country, cross winds can really howl across it, ensure your outfit is loaded well and as stable as it can be! It's at quite a high altitude, in murky weather the cloud base can drop to near ground level, and you find yourself driving near blind on some tricky winding roads where as much forward vision as possible is a very good thing, I've done some of the better roads in the dark, and they can catch you out, so low cloud/fog would be as bad! Many of the roads are VERY winding and quite steep hilly sections, three things come from that, progress is slow, so forget any sat-nav optimistic forecasts of journey times, fuel consumption can be horrendous, so ensure plenty of fuel in tank before leaving 'civilisation', and it's plain hard work driving those sorts of roads, ensure you have the stamina to cope, and to finish your journey safely! I've done the near 300 mile journey from London to the Lakes a fair number of times now, by the time I've hit Yorkshire I'm getting weary, and working hard at remote lanes is NOT what I enjoy!
I'm not exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to country lanes, pretty much if the caravan fits, I'll drive it, but I do plan my journeys carefully and try hard to stick to more major roads even if significantly longer distance, you usually find it's no longer in actual driving time or uses more fuel! I'll often ignore sat-nav routes (which tend to default to shortest distance as their priority!) and force a better route on more major roads with some artificially inserted 'Vias' to stick to far better roads.
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