Selside Outdoor Centre

Discover Selside Outdoor Activity Centre in the Yorkshire Dales – the perfect base for your grand adventures.

Selside is the ideal base for outdoor activities such as caving, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking and many more. Great for team building, sports club pre-season training or for a weekend away in the countryside with your friends.

Selside Outdoor Activity Centre. Yorkshire Dales

Based in the heart of the Dales, Selside Outdoor Activity Centre sleeps up to 23 people and is the perfect base to host your Yorkshire adventure. Simple, hostel-style accommodation is set in a stunning location, right at the centre of Yorkshire Three Peaks territory, and will tick all the boxes for anyone with a love of the outdoors, or those who want to experience the real Yorkshire for the first time.

Available for exclusive use to staff, student or public groups – friends, clubs, societies, departments – Selside is situated three miles north of Horton-in-Ribblesdale and is ideally located for Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough and Ribblehead.

Activities in the area

Caving – Alum Pot is 10 minutes walk
Rock climbing – Twistleton Scar is 15 minutes drive away
Hill walking – located in the three peaks valley
Canoeing/kayaking
Mountain biking

Selside is available for bookings all year round.

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Prices

Selside Prices

DAY	COST
Monday to Sunday	£240.00 per night*

University staff/students are eligible for reduced rates (£220.00 per night) and can request a discount code from the bookings team either by e-mailing sport@leeds.ac.uk or calling 0113 343 9150.

*prices are subject to change

Location

In the heart of the Yorkshire Three Peaks!

Location
The centre is situated three miles north of Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales on the B6479 to Ribblehead, grid reference SD 782758. This is marked as a building just below the ‘s’ of rocks in Top Cow Pasture Rocks on the most useful map to use in this area – the OS 1:25,000 Outdoor Leisure Map, OL2, Yorkshire Dales

Go to Google Maps to see the location.

Transport
The best way to travel to the centre is via private car or hired minibus. Parking is available.

It is possible to get as far as Settle using public transport but from there the bus service which operates is sparse. A bus service is beginning to operate predominately during the summer months, which will allow you to get closer to the centre. Look on Dales Bus for more information, timetables and routes, also call 0871 200 22 33.

Accommodation

Dormitories
The sleeping arrangements are similar to that of a youth hostel, with four rooms sleeping 23 people. You will need to bring your own sleeping bags and pillows.

Kitchen
The kitchen is fully kitted out with pots, pans, plates etc, along with a large cooker, fridge, microwave and large toaster.

Drying Room
This useful facility for the drying of wet clothes contains two electric fan heaters and a three-speed extractor fan on the outside wall.

Heating
There is central heating throughout the building.

Case Study

Cambridge University Cricket Club squad visited Selside Outdoor Centre in the Yorkshire Dales to undertake a pre-season training camp.

The aim of the camp was to commence their conditioning programme for the season, as well as provide an opportunity for new members to the squad to meet those who were present from previous seasons.

Cambridge University Cricket Club – “Over the three days the squad spent there, the location was perfect for long days of running/hiking in the stunning and challenging Dales countryside. The nearby village of Settle was also a perfect location for a few well earned beers each evening. The ample accomodation more than catrered for our needs, and we were able to cook our breakfasts and evening meals for the whole squad with ease. Staying at Selside enabled us to achieve all our objectives for the weekend, and the squad were both fitter, and a much closer group of individuals as a result. We would recommend it to any other teams as an excellent way to start a pre-season campaign.”

Selside Outdoor Activity Centre

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