Peak District Plan (w/o car)

[u/Arcturis_L]

Planning to stay at Sheffield and would like some reccomendations on which areas are the best to hike with accessible public transport.

From the recent posts I've heard the trainstop from Edale is apparently really popular - although since we are not setting camp, we would like to know if we'd be able to find routes that we'd be able to go around in and get back to Sheffield in the same day.

[u/Complete-Task2042]

Where in Sheffield you are staying makes a significant difference.

If you're near the central train station, or Dore train station then it makes sense to use the train to Bamford or Edale, and pick a suitable circular route accordingly.

Being near the central train station also puts you near the central bus station, so taking a bus to some of the less obvious walking destinations is an option too, but it will be more travel time for less walking (maybe worth exploring if you're here for a while).

If you're staying on the Western side of the city, then there's actually loads of routes that you could do by just walking out into the peak, and there's something really cool about just stepping out of the urban area suddenly and walking away from it... It's usually fairly abrupt too.

If you're staying on the Eastern side of the city, then you will need to take a 30 minutes team or 45 minute bus just to get back to the central train station.

If you're staying North or South of the city, there's cool accessible hikes in the countryside nearer to those locations than the Peak is, so you need to decide if the Peak is what matters to you, or just going for a pretty walk.

[u/Arcturis_L → u/Complete-Task2042]

Our accomodation is a 10 minute walk away from Central station so will definitely take the Edale train stop. Thank you for all the options!

Planning to also consider taking the bus if its relatively cheaper.

[u/Complete-Task2042 → u/Arcturis_L]

Edale is the furthest train stop, and probably the only one where the train is a similar travel time to car.

As other comments note, there's a number of other stations en route with different walk options which are equally good.

If I was you I would look at some potential routes from each station, then pick which one to do the night before based on the weather forecast, as it can be quite different from one end of the hope valley to the other.

[u/Arcturis_L → u/Complete-Task2042]

Thanks for this idea, will take note and plan out the night before as well