Jonathan Steele of the Hardmoors Ultrarunning Series dons the Trekker backpack on the Cleveland Way at the start of the trail near Helmsley

Walkers will pound a national trail to bring armchair outdoors fans a view of the countryside.

A team will traverse the Cleveland Way, equipped with Google Trekker cameras to record 360-degree Street View images.

The pictures of the 175km (109-mile) long-distance route will join famous global landscapes such as the USA’s Grand Canyon and Yosemite national park which are already available on the service.

Members of a team led by Jonathan Steele, creator of the Hardmoors Ultrarunning Series which is based on the Cleveland Way, will take it in turns to don the backpack and spend the next month walking the complete route. The Cleveland Way stretches from Helmsley across the North York Moors to Saltburn-by-the-Sea before re-entering the national park and then following the coastline down to Filey.

Along the way, the cameras will capture picturesque villages in the North York Moors national park including Staithes and Robin Hood’s Bay, as well as sights such as the archaeological remains of the former Peak Alum works at Ravenscar, which hark back to the days when the mineral was mined for use in dyeing and tanning leather.

The rolling moorland of the Cleveland Hills with carpets of purple heather, where the national trail coincides with the Coast to Coast route, will be included in the project.

People will also be introduced to lesser known and remote beauty spots such as Hayburn Wyke just south of Robin Hood’s Bay where a path through woodland leads down to a secluded cove and a waterfall tumbles straight onto the beach.

Malcolm Hodgson, national trails officer, said: “There are numerous spectacular and beautiful locations along the Cleveland Way and the Trekker allows us to showcase them to the world in the same way that people use Google Street View.

“It will mean that the Cleveland Way joins other landscape greats such as the Grand Canyon and the Yosemite national park in the virtual world and will whet people’s appetite to come and visit, as well as try out sections of the trail.”