Tourist attractions North Yorkshire

Try Xscape, Yorkshire's ultimate entertainment destination with indoor snow slope, surfing, rock climbing, cinema, shops and restaurants, or Lightwater Valley with its death defying rides. Visit Saltaire with brilliant Hockney exhibition, Castle Howard and Flamingoland. See the majestic York Minster and walk its historic walls.

Don't miss Bradford's National Media Museum or the Great Railway Show at the National Railway Museum, York. Stroll Victorian streets in York's Castle Museum and Kirkstall Abbey's museum in Leeds. Even cower in the wartime blitz at Eden Camp near Malton. Visit military treasures, exhibitions, and live action at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Take one of the world's classic rail journeys on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle Railway. Change from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (left) onto the lovely Esk Valley Line. Look out for the special family fun days at Embsay Steam Railway or steam up into Bronte Country on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, setting of 'The Railway Children'.

Relive some nostalgia at Hull's Streetlife, the Yorkshire Carriage Museum at Aysgarth, and Automobilia in Hebden Bridge plus wartime memories at the Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial near York.

Meet horses at work in Bradford and the Shire Horse Farm near Scarborough. Feed the animals at Eden Farm Insight, Malton and Cruckley Animal Farm near Driffield. Watch ancient skills revived at the Dales Falconry Centre, Settle and enjoy the butterfly brightness of Tropical World, Leeds.

The region boasts some of the finest gardens in Britain including celebrated Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Thorp Perrow Arboretum near Bedale and the water gardens at Burnby Hall, Pocklington and Studley Royal near Ripon.

Hunt bargains in our mill shops or tour a local brewery. Visit Tetley's Brewery Wharf in Leeds for the story of the English Pub through the ages. Masham boasts the Black Sheep and Theakston's Brewery Centres. Take the Dalby Forest Drive or great cycle routes for all the family or swing from the trees in Dalby Forest Go Ape. Walk in Skipton's tranquil woods and the Lady Anne Clifford Trail from Skipton Castle. Explore the Dales on the Elgar and Turner Trails and discover the Literary Pennines of the Brontes and J B Priestley. Risk a ghost walk through darkest York or head to the Yorkshire Wolds to hunt a Hockney Art Location.