The entire 61 kilometres (38 mi)[3] route is on road, along quiet country lanes.

It passes through the town of Norton-on-Derwent and then the villages of Settrington, Duggleby, Kirby Grindalythe, Sledmere, Weaverthorpe and Foxholes on its way to its eastern end at Hunmanby.

The Yorkshire Wolds is a rolling landscape, flat sections are few.

[3] Heading east, the steeper gradients are the climbs from Foxholes and from Settrington.

Here the route climbs a scarp slop to its high point at Settrington Beacon.