several parts on the ground between Bakewell and Matlock are not rideable without a (unsigned) road diversion
Matlock-Darley Dale – open to walkers, surface completed but no crossing of the railway at Matlock end available for cyclists yet
Darley Dale- Rowsley – all works complete but not officially open until crossing at Matlock is resolved then will all be opened together
Rowsley-Bakewell – 4km section of old railway works not started, landowner negotiations and funding still underway but
“There is a way of using existing public rights of way to get from Rowsley to Bakewell
without going on the A6 via a public bridleway and non-classified highway. We are currently looking at the feasibility of formally promoting and signing these as a temporary off road alternative until the main onward route along the line of the former railway is completed”
I understood as well the run into Buxton is a way off being complete due to issues over land ownership although this is only a short 150m section, extension of High Peak and Monsall trails into centre of Buxton is still under discussion as far as I know
so there should be enough finished that you could ride it with the aid of a map to get round bits that arn’t finished. If you can access the bits that are finished but not officially open yet I don’t know, they may well be barriered off at either end