YHA Grinton Lodge

YHA Grinton Lodge offers a unique and spacious retreat to explore the Yorkshire Dales National Park. This hostel has indoor breakout spaces, a games room, dining area and lounge, complemented by five acres of outdoor facilities. We offer group catering, which includes a hearty breakfast, packed lunches and a wholesome evening meal. There is also free Wi-Fi in the social spaces for you to enjoy.

Primary and secondary school groups can get stuck into our tailored activity packages, where they can do guided walks, local history sessions, archery and more. YHA Grinton Lodge also offers off-site adventurous activities like abseiling, climbing and rafting through Carnegie Great Outdoors.

There are plenty of routes throughout the national park for walkers of varying abilities to enjoy. With superb valley views, grab your mountain bikes and set off from the hostel to enjoy stunning scenery.

Alex Rider packages - We’ve joined forces with Walker Books and author Anthony Horowitz to create unique action-filled YHA Alex Rider adventure packages. This pioneering programme has two adrenaline-fuelled missions, each pupil will create their very own spy name and immerse themselves in the Alex Rider world. Both packages build lifelong skills centred around team building and outdoor pursuits.

Connecting to nature package - Pupils get the chance to combine nature-based activities with ways to develop mindfulness skills in the great outdoors. Days will be filled with activities such as finding minibeasts, fire-lighting, pond-dipping, scavenger hunts, environmental art and shelter-building. Evenings will be spent around the campfire, toasting marshmallows, telling stories and singing songs under a starlit sky.

Discovery package - Our discovery package allows teachers to offer a flexible programme of fun and challenging activities. Activities available include archery, orienteering, shelter building, team challenges, guided walks, navigation kikes and let’s get cooking.

Multi-activity package - Full of challenges for the brain and body our multi-activity packages are designed to engage participants through practical PE based activity. This package offers a mixture of adventurous and on-site activities that make the most of the great outdoors and the hostel locality.

Adventure bolt-on - There are a near-endless number of opportunities to explore, discover new things and try unusual activities. This package offers a range of adventurous activities on a half-day or full-day basis so you can make your residential trip suit you. Activities include: abseiling, canoeing, high ropes, kayaking and quad biking.

YHA bolt-on - These activities are perfect for teachers to add on as an 'extra' particularly for self-led groups. The benefit of having hostel grounds is that we can offer space to lead activities without you needing to travel anywhere. Activities include: team challenges, shelter building, archery, guided walk, fire lighting & Go create.

YHA Grinton Lodge has 74 beds, so we can cater for both large and small groups.

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Yes, and we are also committed to ensuring we meet stringent health and safety standards - please contact us if you need any further details

YHA Grinton Lodge has been awarded the Quality Badge by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.