This wild moorland landscape covers 368 sq miles (954 sq km) of wooded valleys, windswept tors, and small villages in the south of England. More than 500 miles of public rights-of-way wend through heather and grass moors, valley oak woodlands, blanket bogs, and vestiges of the oak-birch forest that once covered all but the highest moorlands. Dartmoor ponies, descendants of Saxon ponies that grazed the moor a thousand years past, roam the heather moorlands, while birds of prey hunt the windswept high moors. Humans have inhabited Dartmoor since ancient times, as evidenced by chambered tombs from 3,000 B.C, prehistoric hill forts, stone circles, and abandoned medieval settlements.

The footways and bridle paths of Dartmoor National Park pass mainly through enclosed farmlands, but in some areas they also give access to high open moorlands. Activities include dayhiking, fishing the streams, and pony trekking.

• Pony trek along some of the hundreds of miles of bridleways that run throughout the park.
• Explore the ancient history of settlement in the Dartmoor, and visit the chambered tombs, hill forts, and medieval villages.
• Watch for the Dartmoor ponies, the descendants of ponies turned out on the moor in Saxon times.
• Hike the lengthy Two Moors Way between Dartmoor and Exmoor, home to another National Park.