Can any1 recommend any routes around dartmoor? Done quite a few over shaldon and stokenteignhead using the map overlays admin have sent me. found the one by the prison but strugglin to find many more.
I'm maybe old fashioned but I'm not quite sure how you'd do it using youtube,you're better off looking at a map.
Mike is right about being better off looking at a map but I have discovered a lot of ways by watching other peoples videos on Youtube. The trouble is that you never know if the cameraman is riding legally or not because as we know the maps are not accurate, with the notable exception of the TRF overlay. If you want to see a lot of Cornishmen riding illegally in the woods around one of our best and longest dartmoor byways check out this video of KTRC having a naughty jolly on Youtube.
I was very pleased recently with the discovery of a mountain bike route known as the Deerstalkers path which starts near the top of 191-055 and complements the excellent Hunters path Bridleway on the other side of the Teign valley. Without Youtube I would not have found out about it. Not strictly speaking a legal route either it doesn't seem to matter without a motor and I recommend it to anyone with a mtb
Not sure where you refer to near the prison because there is nothing legal near Dartmoor prison besides the three dead end lanes by Burrator, unless you are referring to Denbury prison which does have a lane alongside. It doesn't help when finding lanes to discover prisons are not shown on os maps to make escapes more difficult
Probably easiest way is to put the overlay on Memorymap for planning routes so you can see clearly the next nearest lane and know with confidence the way is legal
Cheers for your help the video links are great. I thought that most of what I have seen on YouTube are not legal lanes as there doesn't seem to be many on the trf overlays which admin sent to me.
