(S/E) From "The Chevin Country Park Hotel - Lodges - Spa" reception, walk out to the road (York Gate) and turn left. After 200 yards, turn right into a byway (signposted “Miller Lane”).
At a gate, follow the track right, descending to a house on East Chevin Road.
(1) Cross the road and take a signposted bridleway opposite, which curves right and climbs the hill parallel to the road. The path emerges at the end of a car park. Turn left past the “Welcome to Chevin Forest Park” sign and take the level path ahead (Chippendale Ride).
(2) Follow this broad path for a little over half a mile, ignoring turnings to left and right, until you pass a carved stump before the beginning of a boardwalk. Turn left here (signposted “Public Foot- path Ebor Way”) through a hand gate. Almost immediately, turn right onto a grassy path.
(3) When you meet a wider green track, follow it left, away from the power lines. A path joins from the right at a grassy area above a crag with some benches; bear left along the obvious path.
Beyond a gate, ignore a track joining from the left and pass the ruins of Keeper’s Cottage. At a fork after another 200 yards, take the right, lower fork (signposted “Public Bridleway”). The track descends and another path joins from the right before you pass between large boulders on either side of the path.
The path continues gradually downhill and passes a bridleway on the right signposted ”Leeds Road (A660)”, which you ignore.
(4) Cross a rocky stream via a stone bridge and pass the foundations of a building on the right, then the site of an Iron Age settlement with an interpretation panel.
The path continues past a stone trough and later a memorial stone to a former head forester, before emerging into East Chevin Road.
(5) Turn left up the pavement for a short distance, then cross into East Chevin Quarry car park. Join a path beyond a kissing gate on the left of the car park, which climbs with views right over Otley and an old quarry face on the left and then passes above heathery slopes with further views.
(6) Beyond a picnic table you meet another path by a carved wooden figure; turn sharp left here, uphill on the Chevin Geology Trail. On meeting another track, turn right along the contour, passing a sign for White House Wood.
Ignore a flight of stone steps on the right by a wooden carving, continuing ahead with the Vacca Wall (a line of upright stones) on your right.
(7) By a sign on the right for Great Dibb Wood, turn left and follow a path uphill through the trees, which emerges into open country and climbs the slope gradually to the rocks of Surprise View. Follow the main path to the right of the rocks and past the ruins of Jenny’s Cottage.
(8) Follow the wall along the ridge to a corner (look out on the left here for the Knotties Stone). After the wall ends, bear right by a pair of upright stones across a grassy area. After a shallow ditch the path leads into a wood, then emerges onto the road (Yorak Gate). Turn left and follow the road back to The Chevin Country Park Hotel entrance. (S/E)
