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The core of Dartmoor is Dartmoor Forest which was a royal hunting zone and still owned by the Duchy of Cornwall but today only eleven percent of the National Park is defined as woodland. You are still able to see the remnants and relics of the industrial tin mining past and Stone Age settlements. Wild ponies and sheep still wander the National Park with birds of prey hovering above. There are several dedicated cycle routes on Dartmoor including the Granite Way from Okehampton to Lydford which links up with the National Cycle Network. Walking on the moor tends to range from the gentler contours of the southern moor for the less strenuous ramble to the more serious hiking of the harsher northern tracts. The Dartmoor Way is a ninety mile circular route passing through Tavistock, Okehampton, Chagford, Bovey Tracey, Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Holne and Princetown home to the National Parks main information centre.
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