In this paper we study a subfamily of a classic lattice path, the Dyck paths, called restricted d-Dyck paths, in short d-Dyck. A valley of a Dyck path P is a local minimum of P ; if the difference between the heights of two consecutive valleys (from left to right) is at least d, we say that P is a restricted d-Dyck path. The area of a Dyck path is the sum of the absolute values of y-components of all points in the path. We find the number of peaks and the area of all paths of a given length in the set of d-Dyck paths. We give a bivariate generating function to count the number of the d-Dyck paths with respect to the the semi-length and number of peaks. After that, we analyze in detail the case d = −1. Among other things, we give both, the generating function and a recursive relation for the total area.