Our friendly advisers can help make your visit the best ever at our Information Centre. Find out how they can help, opening times and locations.
It's a 'New Year, new you', and why not a new view? The Lake District is here to help you achieve your New Year resolution goals, whether that's to improve your wellbeing, be healthier or lose weight!
Picnics are one of the great British traditions of the Lake District. This portable snack is quick and easy to pull together if you’re staying in a caravan, hostel or bunkhouse and is the perfect accompaniment to a day exploring the fells and lakes.
Hear all about our walking enthusiast Matthew's love of spring walks in the Lake District and his three favourite routes for evenings spent exploring the landscape.
Longest, widest, highest, deepest - get all the facts about the Lake District here.
A dedicated Lake District volunteer has received the coveted Bryan Stilling Award for his outstanding contribution to the National Park over the past 20 years.
Discover our special Wordsworth walks
“Getting fit” can sometimes be dreaded words to hear in January, but if you find ways to focus on your health and wellbeing that suit you, then it can actually be really fun…we promise!
The English Lake District has become the UK’s latest nomination for World Heritage site status following confirmation of the bid being received by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency.
Lake District camp sites are available all over the National Park – from lake side pitches to fell top camping, wild sites to full facilities, search and book Lake District campsites.
The Lake District is famous for its spectacular landscapes and stunning lakes, but hidden beneath those layers are fascinating stories and moments through time. With the changing season unmasking the Lake District, we thought it was perfect timing to share some of the history and myths within the National Park.
Explore the most popular places to visit in the Lake District including Windermere, Ambleside, Coniston Water, Ullswater, Grasmere and the Langdale Valley. Plan your visit and make the most of your stay!
Tarn Hows, situated between the south lakes villages of Coniston and Hawkshead, affords stunning views of the surrounding fells and has an accessible circular walk, suitable for wheelchair users. Ideal for a short walk or can be extended to include a longer hike to the summit of nearby Black Crag.
More than just Rangers! Meet the teams delivering planning, conservation, communications, commerical, strategy and partnerships across the Lake District National Park.
With 19 million visitors and growing in the Lake District, your park needs your help to look after it. Let’s make the Lake District an even better place to live, visit and work by playing a part and respecting all Lake District adventurers.
As part of our celebration for 70 years of The Lake District National Park we’re showcasing our fantastic Miles without Stiles routes, and how the Lake District can be enjoyed by all. Our Lead Strategy Advisor, Emma Moody, tells us why Miles without Stiles are so important.
Our rangers have been out in the national park assessing the areas affected by the weekend’s flooding and are placing cordons where there is a safety issue with access. We are asking people to take cordons and signs seriously and not to cross them.
To help with the extra wear and tear from hundreds of pairs of running feet during this weekend’s Lakeland 100 event, organisers will be donating £10,000 towards the much needed path repairs on the 100-mile route.
Listing achievements since its start in 2006.
Leave the car behind and enjoy the views from an elevated position.
Tourism and the rural economy will come under the spotlight over the next two days, as Minister for the Arts, Heritage & Tourism, John Glen MP, heads to Cumbria to visit the newly designated Lake District World Heritage Site and hear first-hand from a range of business about what it means to them.
