Yorkshire

Treat yourself to a hot air balloon ride in an area of great natural beauty in Yorkshire.

Yorkshire boasts some of the finest gardens and makes for a varied and interesting region for hot air balloon flights.

The companies below offer hot air ballooning in Yorkshire:

York Balloons
24 Otterwood Lane Acomb,
York,
North Yorkshire,
YO24 3JR

Tel: 01904 338559

Airborne Adventures Ltd.
Old Burton Croft,
Rylstone, Skipton,
North Yorkshire
BD23 6LW

Tel: 01756 730166

Much of the landscape here is limestone country - lush green valleys (known locally as "dales") crested with white limestone cliffs ("scars") and limestone pavements cutting through wilder uplands beneath towering peaks ("fells") of dark millstone grit.

Throughout the dales, fields and pastures are bounded by distinctive white drystone walls which criss-cross the hillsides in elaborate patterns; set against the limestone cliffs and escarpments these walls (which were originally built by sheep farmers in days gone by) look almost a natural part of the limestone scenery as viewed today.