Walkers achieving a 16-mile first day from the start in Edale in Derbyshire will enter Yorkshire on day two of their journey via West Yorkshire's highest point Black Hill (582m) before crossing desolate moors and passing scenic reservoirs on the moors above Marsden on the way to White Hill (466m).

Pennine Way bridge crosses the M62 at Rook Stones HillAfter crossing the Pennine Way bridge spanning the M62 at Rook Stones Hill on Moss Moor, the route briefly dips into a part of the red rose county now in Greater Manchester as it passes along Blackstone Edge before returning to West Yorkshire at Warland Reservoir, crossing moorland above Todmorden to the next major landmark, the Stoodley Pike memorial.

The route dips down and up the steep sides of the Calder Valley to the west of Hebden Bridge, heading north across Heptonstall Moor and towards Withins Height, a location made famous by Brontë literature. The moorland rolls on and crosses into North Yorkshire a few hundred metres from Wolf Stones.

Some 40 miles on from first reaching Yorkshire, the route comes its closest yet to a Yorkshire village as it skirts around Cowling and eventually reaches the village of Lothersdale. Across Elslack Moor is Thornton in Craven is a short break from the hills as the trail goes alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at East Marton and to the biggest village so far on the trail, Gargrave.

Malham CoveThe trail cuts over a hill to rejoin the River Aire near Airton, continuing up Malhamdale to the village of Malham and the magnificent limestone scenery of Malham Cove. After skirting Malham Tarn, the Pennine Way heads into some of Yorkshire's mountainous terrain across Fountains Fell to climb the impressive Pen-y-Ghent, on of the famous Three Peaks of Yorkshire. It is 694m high, but only around the eighth-highest of Yorkshire's mountains and there is yet higher to come on the Pennine Way.

After Pen-y-Ghent, the trail provides a break in the village of Horton in Ribblesdale. Heading back out on to the moors the trail takes walkers along the route of a Roman Road over Cam Fell, branching off around the side of Dodd Fell to eventually reach the village of Hawes in Wensleydale. Crossing the River Ure, the trail reaches Hadraw, where the Hadraw Force waterfall is a short detour away, but there is now a long steady climb over Black Hill Moss to the highest Yorkshire point on the Pennine Way, Great Shunner Fell (715m), the fourth-highest Yorkshire summit.

The trail drops down into the village of Thwaite and heads along North Crag Scar above the River Swale and across Stonesdale Moor to reach the highest pub in England, the Tan Hill Inn. After heading across Sleightholme Moor, the trail offers options of heading into the small village of Bowes or short-cutting across God's Bridge, a footbridge over the River Greta. Modern maps might be showing you to be in Durham County by now, but this is definitely still part of 'God's own County', part of the historic North Riding of Yorkshire, south of the boundary still much further north at the River Tees.

The two options rejoin near Balderhead Reservoir, heading over Mickleton Moor, into Lunedale and around Harter Fell to reach Middleton-in-Teesdale. While the Pennine Way doesn't actually leave Yorkshire at this point, the majority of the village is just across the River Tees in historic County Durham. The Pennine Way, however, continues along the Yorkshire bank of the Tees, eventually reaching the spectacular High Force waterfall. It provides an impressive farewell to Yorkshire as a couple of miles later the trail crosses a bridge to the other side of the Tees as it passes around Cronkley Scar. This is Yorkshire's most northern point and actually the most northern point of the Pennine Way for the next 10 miles or so as it continues west and slightly south into Westmorland with over 100 miles still to go to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders.