Pennine Way accommodation: map and where to stay each night
There are 275 places to stay within 1.2 miles of the 258-mile Pennine Way, 39 of them campsites. This guide orders them stage by stage, with how far each one sits from the trail, contact details and reviews.
First decision
When to book
No fixed booking date, but the remote stops have very few beds.
Book when your dates are set. April to September is the season and the middle is busy.
The thin stops are the ones that decide the itinerary. Where a crossing ends at a single inn, that inn is the whole night, and it is taken months ahead in summer.
Prices and season dates checked September 2026. Confirm with the operator before booking.
Crowden (stage 1, 1 place), Standedge (stage 2, 1 place), Mankinholes (stage 3, 2 places), Cowling (stage 5, 2 places), Bowes (stage 10, 2 places), Langdon Beck (stage 12, 2 places), Byrness (stage 18, 3 places) have the fewest beds on this route, so book those first and fit the rest of the walk around them.
Night by night
Where to stay at each stop
Stops follow Traileasy's 19 Day Itinerary, which splits the walk into 19 days. Most walkers take 16 to 19, and the overnight towns change with the split.
Night 1· 17.3 miles
Only one place here, and the next bed is 11.5 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 2 · from Crowden· 12.4 miles
Standedge
Only one place here, and the next bed is 11.1 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 3 · from Standedge· 12 miles
Only 2 places here, and the next bed is 1.8 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 4 · from Mankinholes· 14.2 miles
Night 5 · from Stanbury· 7.3 miles
Only 2 places here, and the next bed is 1.8 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 7 · from Malham· 15 miles
Night 10 · from Keld· 12.6 miles
Bowes
Only 2 places here, and the next bed is 6.2 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 11 · from Bowes· 12.6 miles
Night 12 · from Middleton-in-Teesdale· 8.6 miles
Langdon Beck
Only 2 places here, and the next bed is 11 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 16 · from Greenhead· 8.3 miles
Night 18 · from Bellingham· 16.5 miles
Only 3 places here, and the next bed is 1.7 miles further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Local rules
Camping on the Pennine Way
11 of the 18 overnight stops have a campsite within 1.2 miles of the path: Crowden, Stanbury, Malham, Hawes, Keld, Bowes, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Dufton, Greenhead, Once Brewed and Bellingham.
There is no right to wild camp in England, but the Pennine Way is the one route here where the convention is real: high on the moors, above the last wall, arriving late and leaving early. That is a tolerance, not a permission, and it stops where the route drops into the dales.
The bothies are the other option. Greg's Hut on Cross Fell is the best known, free and always open, and on that crossing it is the only shelter for hours.
Carrying less
Baggage transfer
Carriers cover it, but the remote crossings limit where a bag can reach you.
Sherpa Van and Brigantes both run the Pennine Way. The constraint is the high crossings: where the route spends a day above the road, a van cannot follow it, so those nights have to be planned around what you carry.
Prices and season dates checked September 2026. Confirm with the operator before booking.
Method
How this list is put together
We list published stays within 1.2 miles of the route that have a website or a phone number, and are not permanently closed. Distances are measured from the trail itself, not from the village centre.
Each night leads with the stay our itinerary uses, then any stay we have picked out for that stop, then the places at the stop itself, then the rated ones by review count. The rest of that night's options follow.
Ratings and review counts come from public data and were current when this page was last built.
A further 22 stays sit beyond the last overnight stop, at the finish or on the walk out. They are useful if you split the walk differently.