Twistleton Scars is the limestone pavement that extends from the slopes of Ingleborough to the north of Ingleton, a stretch of open, almost lunar terrain quite different from the green dales and wooded gorges below. The pavement — sheets of grey rock divided into blocks by deep crevices called grykes — is one of the best examples in the Yorkshire Dales and largely unvisited compared to the more famous pavement above Malham Cove.
Walking across limestone pavement requires care: the surface is uneven and the grykes can be ankle-deep or deeper. Good footwear is essential. The reward is a strange, quiet landscape that changes character dramatically with the light — pale and blinding in midday sun, silver and moody under cloud, occasionally dramatic under a low winter sky. The grykes shelter an unusual range of plants including hart's tongue fern, herb Robert, and — in some sections — wild garlic.
Access is from the road on the north side of Ingleton toward Chapel-le-Dale. The pavement sits above and to the east, reached by open tracks. No admission is charged; the area is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.