People living in a quaint village say they are "under siege" from massive crowds of walking tourists visiting to scale nearby mountains each year.
The picturesque village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale lies in the Yorkshire Dales and as the starting point of the Three Peaks Walk - a beacon for hiking tourists.
The small community say visitor management has been poorly executed and is having a disastrous effect on their quality of life.
They told Yorkshire Live they are fed up of the crowds, litter and noise the visitors bring.
At a recent council meeting, Councillor David Staveley called Craven Council's visitor planning "haphazard".
He told the meeting the situation is so unbearable that some visitors "can't stand" being in their homes during the summer peak season.
He said: “You have got people in Horton who actually go away every weekend during the summer because they can’t stand to be in their own homes. They feel like they are under siege."
Several villagers say they are fed up of the litter, noise and parking issues the visitors bring with them.
John McKay said: "It's awful. If I had the money I would move away.
"Over the last 20 years it's just gotten worse and worse."
Horton-in-Ribblesdale is a walking town, considered the starting point of the Yorkshire Three Peaks Walk.
The route involves 26 miles of endurance hiking that ascends and descends the mountains of Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough.
Mr McKay lives next to one of the village's main car parks - and says he's had enough of huge groups of charity walkers heading out to scale the peaks on weekend mornings.
He keeps parking cones outside his home so no one steals the his spot.
He said: "I don't mind the people who come and just do a walk but it's the people who pretend to do it for charity.
"We get crowds of seven or eight hundred people on Saturdays. During the summer it's misery every day of the week. There's just a continuous string of people walking past your house all of the time."
He added: "If I leave my parking space at a weekend and don't put them there I can't get back in. Even if there's space in the car park."
Mr McKay -[originally from Blackburn - moved to Horton as he loved visiting the area when he was a youngster.
He added: "I used to come as a kid and it was lovely and quiet.
"When we were in lockdown last year all the wildlife came back and you could hear the birds chirping again. When the tourists came back it stopped."
James Duncan Amber, is similarly concerned about the weekend walkers, and keeps traffic cones in his spot too.
Though not as annoyed as his wife who attends local meetings to voice her concerns, he does understand her frustration.
He said: "There are a lot of people up in arms
"When we came 15 or so years ago it was fairly quiet. But now people can't go abroad so naturally they are going to places like the Yorkshire Dales and National Parks and what not.
"There's not much you can do it about it but it's progressively gotten worse. We just try and tolerate it."
He urged for there to be a limit on the number of charity walks that can take place, saying "I don't think the National Parks do anything to help the situation".
Mr Ambler added that there are weekends when he and his wife get away from the village to avoid the crowds. But also admitted that he and his wife have been making the most of them in some ways as well.
He said: "It's alright for those who have got a business like the local pubs and the small shops. We have started selling teas and coffees outside our home on the weekends.
"If you have got to live here and put up with it why not capitalise on it? That's what I say."
He also pointed out that the same issues were being faced in similarly popular walking places as well such as Snowden, where there are also measures being looked at to control the number of visitors.
Mr Ambler works at the local quarry, though he said he is planning on retiring in three years and may well "just say sod it" and move away from the village.
"When we moved here we saw it as this nice little idyllic place", Mr Ambler said. "But it's actually worse here than it is in West Yorkshire!
"It's gorgeous and lovely but it's just all the bloody bother."
