Enjoy Yorkshire's autumn colours

Discover autumn at its very best as the natural world transforms in colour right before your very eyes. Here are our top suggestions for where to enjoy the best of autumn over the coming weeks in Yorkshire.

Late autumn colours reflected in water at Studley Royal Water Garden, North Yorkshire

Explore Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal 

Take a walk from the abbey ruins towards the water garden to see the trees really putting on a show as summer turns into autumn. Wander along the high ride path to the surprise view for breath-taking views and take in the Temple of Piety as it becomes surrounded by auburn beech trees and golden horse chestnuts.

Discover the changing season at Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal
The Boathouse Bridge in autumn at Nostell

Enjoy a lakeside woodland wander at Nostell 

Discover more of Nostell on an autumn walk to the Menagerie Garden. Head along the lakeside paths where you’ll find golden canopies, slowly turning into carpets of leaves and conkers underfoot. A winding walk through the pleasure grounds will take you to mesmerising viewpoints of the lakes framed in gold, red and orange.

Explore autumn colour at Nostell
Corner of a red bricked hall with orange leaves on the floor

Fruitful colour at Beningbrough Hall, Gallery & Gardens 

As the summer sun sets, the garden takes on orange hues, from the giant pumpkins to the frosted seed heads in the borders and the trees beyond. See the garden's fruit bursting to life too, with over 40 varieties of apples and pears ripening. The range of colours in the different fruits boast green, golden, russet and red.

Autumn colour at Beningbrough Hall, Gallery & Gardens
Visitors walk with their dog through the gardens at Wentworth Castle.

Seasonal changes across Wentworth Castle Gardens 

The tree-lined avenues and the surrounding parkland make Wentworth Castle Gardens a great place to witness the changing seasons. Lady Lucy's Walk will transform as the weeks go by, as well as the paths past the conservatory and Union Jack Garden. Go on a walk in the parkland towards the rotunda and see if you can spot the red and fallow deer along the way.

See autumn colour at Wentworth Castle Gardens
Autumn tracks at Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales

Soak up the colours of autumn in the Yorkshire Dales 

When autumn arrives in the Yorkshire Dales, the greens of the summer are replaced by a stunning array of rustic browns, golds and reds. Late flowers still showing include devil's bit scabious and keep an eye out for fungi in different shapes, shades and sizes.

Explore autumn colour in the Dales
Autumn sees a carpet of leaves adorn the pathways

Autumnal displays in Ormesby Hall's garden 

Catch autumn colour cascading down through the woodlands and within the formal garden at Ormesby Hall. You'll find shades of red, glistening oranges and browns on the trees accompanied in the garden by flushes of delphinium and other late flowering shrubs, such as the bright purple colchicum.

Autumnal displays in Ormesby Hall's garden
Rievaulx Terrce in autumn colours

Woodland and views at Rievaulx Terrace 

There’s nothing like the autumn colours splashed throughout the woodland and terrace. As the lush summer green foliage turns to amber and yellow, the leaves begin to fall and blow across the valley, further enhancing the incredible views towards the abbey and beyond.

Take an autumn walk at Rievaulx Terrace
Hayburn Wyke on the North Yorkshire coast

Coastal autumn colour 

Nature bursts into life on the Yorkshire coast in autumn. Bright berries, colourful fungi and migrating birds such as redwing, waxwing and fieldfare can all be seen arriving for the winter. At Hayburn Wyke oak trees twisted and stunted by the sea breeze overlook a waterfall and rocky bay where the woods meet the coast.

Head to the Yorkshire coast this autumn
Gibson Mill at the heart of Hardcastle Crags in Autumn

Woodland colour and fungi at Hardcastle Crags 

The whole valley at Hardcastle Crags turns golden at different times from September onwards. Whether you're taking a walk along the river bank or higher up, you'll see a myriad of shades from the trees and the bracken. As the season advances look out for colourful waxcaps and other fungi.

Explore the woodland at Hardcastle Crags