Green Lanes in the North York Moors?

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kayasaman

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Hi everyone,

I'm slowly putting together a trip together which will take me and my family round the UK and mainly the National Parks, provided my health improves (as I haven't been able to drive or even leave the house for over a year, but now at least thanks to new medication things might improve??).
The trip will probably be about a month or 2 journey depending how engulfed we get in things, and it will be a great precursor to getting more video camera/drone and Color Grading experience for a much longer trip round the globe possibly using a Patriot ST5 camper.

Last year I got to go up to Scotland for 2 weeks (cyan color going up and gray color coming back down - recorded on the Garmin 67i InReach) which was a lot of fun even though my 4 door sedan was seriously at a disadvantage on the trails around the Alladale reserve, I actually got pretty far after taking a wrong turn and getting lost. Infuriating though to have a blasted LandRover Discovery blow by me at 10MPH when I could only achieve around 2MPH on lowered sports suspension haha... I did get to drive the Defender 110 though which was the highlight of the 2 weeks I was up there....

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Once I grab the Gen6 4Runner build that I want they'll be sorry LOL (speed limit for their private tracks is actually 15MPH and I won't even need to lock the diff or unlock the front sway bars hahahahah), sadly no Baja style 40MPH dashes and getting airborne and reminiscing over the X Games MOTO-X style "big air".

Currently this is my plan - using Garmin Explore:

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Starting over at Whitby, I found this website which showed the Green Lanes around the area and has difficulty levels from "easy" to "moderate" to "hard":


There seems to be a trail going from Whitby area to Middlesbrough and rated at "moderate". Strangely the pictures I see are nothing more then a few offroaders and softroaders on gravel and dirt tracks and grass!

Has anyone done any of these trails and what is to be expected? I tried looking at the satellite view but didn't see anything special.....

I wonder would it be something like this which has a 7/10 difficulty rating using OnX:
Or perhaps this?:


Strangely I'm not really seeing anything pop up on Garmin Explore or Tread in terms of trails in that area - maybe they don't consider these "lanes" trails??


Thanks for any input :-)