Etape du Dales | 120km
2027 · date not out yet · usually July
Settle, United Kingdom🇬🇧
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What this course demands
Hilly. Pacing matters more than power here.
- Climbing
- 1,650 m
- Per km
- 13.6 m
- At 5%+
- 3%
- High point
- 445 m
Gradient
- under -3%7.2 km
- -3 to 1%79 km
- 1 to 3%26.7 km
- 3 to 5%4.8 km
- 5 to 8%3.3 km
The 3 hardest climbs
| From | Length | Gain | Avg | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| km 33.3 | 4.1 km | 184 m | 4.5% | 6.1% |
| km 1.6 | 8.9 km | 253 m | 2.8% | 7.9% |
| km 90.2 | 4.9 km | 125 m | 2.6% | 3.6% |
Climbs measured from the route file, not the race blurb. The profile carries a point roughly every 0.8 km, so a short ramp inside a climb reads smoother here than it does under your wheels, and each climb’s gain is a floor rather than a total.
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The Experience
The Mini Etape du Dales covers 120 km through the Yorkshire Dales from Settle, sharing the opening climbs of the long route before diverging at Kettlewell to take Kidstones Pass — a Tour de France 2014 classified climb. Passing through Wensleydale and Hawes with a feed stop at the Wensleydale Creamery, the route finishes via the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct.
Highlights
1
Kidstones Pass — Tour de France 2014 categorised climb2
Wensleydale Creamery Visitor Centre feed stop at 90 km3
Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle-Carlisle railway line4
Littondale valley descent through Arncliffe (All Creatures Great and Small country)5
Shared opening with long route including Langcliffe Scar